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Glen D. Singh
Glen D. Singh
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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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Domain dominance and persistence

In this section, you will learn how to perform advanced techniques to abuse the trust within Kerberos and an Active Directory domain to gain dominance over all devices within a Windows domain and set up persistence within Active Directory.

You will learn about the fundamentals of creating the following tokens on Active Directory:

  • Golden ticket
  • Silver ticket
  • Skeleton key

Let's take a deeper dive into abusing the trust within Active Directory.

Golden ticket

A golden ticket is a special token that is created by penetration testers using the Security Identifier (SID) of the domain, the domain name, and the NTLM hash of the Kerberos TGT. The golden ticket allows a penetration tester to gain access to any device within the domain by performing a technique known as Pass the Ticket. This is possible because the golden ticket is both encrypted and digitally signed by the hash of the Kerberos TGT account. This is the krbtgt...

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The Ultimate Kali Linux Book - Second Edition
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Glen D. Singh

Glen D. Singh is a cybersecurity author, educator and SecOps professional. His areas of expertise are cybersecurity operations, offensive security tactics and techniques, and enterprise networking. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in cybersecurity and many industry certifications from top awarding bodies such as EC-Council, Cisco, and Check Point. Glen loves teaching and mentoring others while sharing his wealth of knowledge and experience as an author. He has written many books, which focus on vulnerability discovery and exploitation, threat detection, intrusion analysis, incident response, network security, and enterprise networking. As an aspiring game changer, Glen is passionate about increasing cybersecurity awareness in his homeland, Trinidad and Tobago.
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