{"id":1793,"date":"2021-07-19T06:00:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T03:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/macrosec.tech\/?p=1793"},"modified":"2021-07-18T12:13:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T09:13:37","slug":"building-a-basic-active-directory-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macrosec.tech\/index.php\/2021\/07\/19\/building-a-basic-active-directory-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Building A Basic Active Directory Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"

BUILDING A BASIC ACTIVE DIRECTORY LAB<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<\/div>
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This blog post was written by Amarjit Labhuram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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Introduction<\/strong><\/h2>\n

These days most enterprises run Microsoft Active Directory Services for building and managing their infrastructure. With the current rise of attacks against corporations, it is important for the security team to understand the sort of attacks that can be carried out on their infrastructure as well as develop defense and detection mechanisms to better secure them.<\/p>\n

Having your own playground is essential to understand Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) used by cybercriminals. This post will take you through how to build your own Active Directory lab on-premise in which you can practice the attacks as well as find its detection mechanisms.<\/p>\n

Active Directory is a directory service that centralizes the management of users, computers and other objects within a network. Its primary function is to authenticate and authorize users and computers in a windows domain.<\/p>\n

Prerequisites<\/strong><\/h2>\n

I shall be using Virtualbox as my hypervisor to create the lab but feel free to use any hypervisor of your choice, the concept is the same. You will need several Windows OS virtual machines. For our purposes, we are using Microsoft evaluation center copies of Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019.<\/p>\n