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Why You Must Kill Your Certificate Authority
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You can migrate every user to the cloud and retire every workload, and Active Directory still won't go away — because two systems, your certificate authority and Exchange Hybrid, are quietly holding the domain controller hostage. 🔐
In this episode, Ernie and Josée trace exactly how a low-privilege foothold — a phished user, an exposed ethernet jack — escalates into full domain compromise using nothing but native Windows features: coercing a domain controller into an NTLM handshake, relaying it to the certificate authority's web enrollment endpoint, and walking away with a…
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