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Privileged Access Workstation Deployment: The Missing Piece of Most Active Directory Hardening Programmes

Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs) are the single most effective control for preventing credential theft from domain administrators. They are also the most consistently skipped step in enterprise AD hardening programmes. This guide covers a practical PAW deployment for Tier 0 domain controller administration.

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Netlogon Will Be Exploited Again. The Question Is Whether Your Architecture Has Changed Since Zerologon.

CVE-2026-41089 is the third significant Netlogon vulnerability with active exploitation in six years. Zerologon (CVE-2020-1472) prompted an industry-wide reckoning with domain controller exposure. If your DC network architecture has not materially changed since 2020, the reckoning was incomplete.

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