Mastering Active Directory Security (MADS) Vol 1 – Credentials

The Mastering Active Directory Security (MADS) Path contains numerous practical, hands-on courses by expert and industry veteran, Slavi Parpulev (eLearnSecurity, Hack the Box, et al). Vol 1 of this video-heavy course provides an introduction to Active Directory itself and then provides an understanding of the different types of credentials in Active Directory. It focuses on demonstrating where to identify exposed credentials, understanding passwords hashes, cracking hashes and using these credentials to laterally move in an Active Directory environment.

Since practically the entire Fortune 1000 uses Active Directory, knowing it and what attacks apply in these corporate enterprises is a must for any budding penetration tester. This first of many volumes will get your feet wet. Future volumes will keep getting more complex and difficult. But in the end, your journey into Slavi’s MADS world won’t end until, as he says himself, “We hack EVERYTHING!!!! ๐Ÿ˜ˆ”

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MADS Vol 1 – Course Overview by Slavi Parpulev

What do I get?

Along with extensive video content, this course contains summaries of the videos and quizzes along the way to test your knowledge. This course also comes with a pre-configured Active Directory (AD) environment including 2 Windows Workstations and a Domain Controller. All of your attacks will be done by the provided Kali Linux VM. All virtual machines are web-based!

MADS Vol 1 – Virtual Environment

Prerequisites for Mastering Active Directory Security Vol 1

Although this course assumes no prior knowledge of Active Directory, being comfortable with Windows, Linux, networking and virtual environments are a plus.

Because the entire virtual environment is provided for you, you need nothing other than a computer, Internet access and your brain!


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