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Published inNov 2021
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Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Secure LDAP

In an on-prem AD environment, there can be applications or services that require integration with AD. An AD-integrated application or service can query for AD users, authenticate, modify objects, and so on. This integration process is usually done using the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). By default, this LDAP connection between the client (application, service) and server (domain controller) is not encrypted. With this default configuration, a man-in-the-middle attacker can capture packets between the LDAP client and server, modify them, and then send the modified packets back to the server.

The LDAP server will not see the difference and reply to these forged requests with a decision. Microsoft is well aware of this vulnerability.

On August 13, 2019, Microsoft released a security advisory report, recommending to enable LDAP channel binding and LDAP signing to the LDAP client and server. For more information, refer to https://bit.ly/3CRmr0B...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis