Can your Domain Admins log in to endpoints?

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Can your ๐——๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—”๐—ฑ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€ ๐—น๐—ผ๐—ด ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€?

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฒ๐˜† ๐˜€๐—ต๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ๐—ปโ€™๐˜. Disable it. Build multiple tiers with separate privileged accounts for each tier and ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ฐ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜€ with GPO so higher tiers cannot log on to lower tiers โœ….

In practice for example, your ๐—ง๐Ÿฌ (๐——๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—”๐—ฑ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป) ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ป๐˜ ๐—บ๐˜‚๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฐ๐—ต ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜๐˜€. The goal is to prevent any contact between high-value credentials and lower tiers. Endpoints sit closest to the internet and the attacker, and you donโ€™t want high privileged credentials cached thereโ€”this is a very simple and ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐—น๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต โš ๏ธ.

This isnโ€™t a nice-to-have. Itโ€™s a ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฝ๐—ฟ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ of securing Active Directory. Train the mindset and do it properly even if it takes more time.

Want a short, practical walkthrough of this principle? ๐—œ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐˜€๐—ฒ โ€” https://academy.horizon-secured.com/p/windows-infrastructure-security-tiering-model

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