Ryan Warren is a Senior Penetration Tester with Schellman in the Little Rock, AR area, where he performs several offensive security assessments including internal/external network testing, social engineering, and web application tests. Prior to joining Schellman in 2022, Ryan worked in city government as an Information Security Coordinator, which included vulnerability management and incident response.
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Ryan Warren
November 1st, 2024
While many companies are moving to the cloud, it's still common to find Active Directory (AD) deployed locally in Windows environments. During internal network pen tests, I was pretty comfortable with lateral movement and privilege escalation (via missing patches or LLMNR/NBT-NS/IPv6, open network shares, etc.) but felt lacking in how I could leverage attacks against AD to provide more impact during the assessment. In my journey to get better at attacking AD, I was able to enroll in different free and paid courses. This blog post will provide you with an overview of the four I found to be most beneficial personally.