From actually good ideas like Bitlocker to ideas that most definitely do not fall in the category (like Recall), the security landscape of Microsoft products and especially the line of Windows operating systems is a wild and chaotic wasteland.
To help make sense of this, I have decided to pick a few concepts out of that realm and explain what they are, how they (don't) work and what they mean in a security context. I will add to the following from time to time, but for now, these are the topics I have written about:
In my job as a pentester, I often show some of the tools I use to the system administrators at a client.
They are often astounded by the amount of information I get from them and the ease with which I get them.
That's why I decided to collect and describe some of these tools on my blog.
One of the biggest factors in enterprise security these days is Active Directory,
which is the realm I want to focus on here.
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