from user to domain admin: a step-by step guide on how to be a little evil

From User to Domain Admin: A Step-By-Step Guide on

How to Be a Little Evil

Paula Januszkiewicz CQURE: CEO, Penetration Tester / Security Expert

CQURE Academy: Trainer

MVP: Enterprise Security, MCT

Contact: paula@cqure.us | http://cqure.us

New York, Dubai, Warsaw

@paulacqure

@CQUREAcademy

Upcoming Workshops: 7th -11th of March – NYC – Hacking and Securing Windows Infrastructure

4th – 8th of April – NYC – Hacking and Securing Windows Infrastructure

2nd – 6th of May – NYC - Hacking and Securing Windows Infrastructure

Please Contact our office in United States office and mention BeyondTrust!

info@cqure.us

Exclusive discounts for all attendees in today’s seminar.

Offline access allows someone to bypass a system’s security

mechanisms Useful in critical situations

Almost every object that contains information can be read

offline It is a minimal privilege for the person with good intentions

It is a maximum privilege for… everybody else

Simplified offline access is acceptable if you do not value

your information

Potential Attacker Pathways

Services • When used as a part of software that was not installed in %systemroot% or %programfiles%

• Installed in a folder with inappropriate ACLs

Permissions • Should be audited

• Should be set up as a part of NTFS, not as a part of shares

BackupRead / BackupWrite • Copy operation that is more important than ACLs

• Used by backup software

Summary

Learn how to detect malicious situations

Know your system when it is safe – you need a baseline

If you detect a successful attack – do not try to fight

Report the issue

Investigate or do a penetration test /IT Audit

Estimate the range of the attack

Know how to recover your data, when necessary

Retina Enterprise

Vulnerability

Management Alex DaCosta

Product Manager

Network Security

Scanning

Enterprise Vulnerability

Management

Dynamic Web

Application Scanning

Cloud-Based

Perimeter Scanning

Privileged Password

Management

Privilege

Management

Auditing &

Protection

Active Directory

Bridging

The BeyondInsight IT Risk Management Platform

EXTENSIVE

REPORTING

CENTRAL DATA

WAREHOUSE

ASSET

DISCOVERY

ASSET

PROFILING

ASSET SMART

GROUPS

USER

MANAGEMENT

WORKFLOW AND

NOTIFICATION

THIRD-PARTY

INTEGRATION

Retina Vulnerability Management Solutions

PowerBroker Privileged Account Management Solutions

ADVANCED THREAT

ANALYTICS

NETWORK

INFRASTRUCTURE

MOBILE, VIRTUAL

AND CLOUD

APPLICATIONS &

DATABASES SERVERS & DESKTOPS

ACTIVE DIRECTORY,

EXCHANGE, FILE SYS.

Demonstration

Poll

Q&A

Thank you.