Group Policy

Tags:Active-DirectoryGroup-Policy Related to:enumerationhackingcrtposcp See also: Enumeration Cheatsheet AD Introduction to Active Directory Index: 🗂️ Index of CRTP

Summary

A brief overview of what Group policy is

Group policy

• Provides ability to manage config and changes easily and centrally in an AD
• Group policies are applied on Organizational Units (OU)
• Often targetted for abuse
  • Privesc
  • Backdoors
  • Persistence
• Allows configuration of
  • Security Settings
  • Registry based policy settings
  • Group preferences like startup/shutdown scripts etc
  • Software installation