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Security Hardening Techniques

Provides a curated list of security hardening techniques for Windows

A curated list of awesome Security Hardening techniques for Windows.

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Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Initial foothold
EMET Deploy to Workstations (End of line in July 2018 - Consider keeping EMET for Windows 7 but prioritize upgrades to Windows 10 and Edge)
AppLocker Use to block exec content from running in user locations (home dir, profile path, temp, etc)
Here you go Hardening against DMA Attacks? and an interesting article from
PowerShell logging Enable (v3+) & command process logging
Block Office macros (Windows & Mac) on content downloaded from the Internet
WEF Deploy security tooling that monitors for suspicious behavior. Consider using to forward only interesting events to your SIEM or logging system

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Initial foothold / Limit capability by blocking/restricting attachments via email/download:
these file types Ensure are blocked
Excel file extensions Block forgotten/unused : IQY, SLK

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Initial foothold
Preventing activation of OLE packages in Office with the PackagerPrompt registry setting

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Reconnaissance
GPO Increase security on sensitive s
(Microsoft ATA) Evaluate deployment of behavior analytics
NetCease Use to prevent unprivileged session enumeration
Samri10 Use to prevent unprivileged local admin collection (this fix already exists in Windows 10 1607 and above)

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Lateral Movement
(KB2871997) Configure GPO to prevent local accounts from network authentication . In addition to this KB, is recommending two other changes in the registry:
(Microsoft LAPS) Ensure local administrator account passwords are automatically changed & remove extra local admin accounts
(Windows Firewall) Limit workstation to workstation communication

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Privilege Escalation
(including GPP) Remove files with passwords in SYSVOL
PAWs Provide Privileged Access Workstations or for all highly privileged work. Those should never have access to the Internet
(FGPP) Use Managed Service Accounts for SAs when possible
Fine-Grained Password Policy For systems that do not support Managed Service Accounts, deploy a to ensure the passwords are >32 characters
LM/NTLMv1 Ensure all computers are talking NTLMv2 & Kerberos, deny

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Protect Administration Credentials
Protected Users group Add all admin accounts to (requires Windows 2012 R2 DCs)

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Protect Administration Credentials / Admin workstations & servers:
LLMNR Disable
WPAD Disable

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Strengthen/Remove Legacy
LDAP signing Enforce
SMB signing Enable (& encryption where poss.)
shims Use to enable old applications that require admin privileges to work by believing they have them

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Tools
PingCastle an Active Directory audit tool (and free!) with pretty good metrics
Responder 5,534 about 1 year ago A LLMNR, NBT-NS and MDNS poisoner
BloodHound 9,972 over 1 year ago Six Degrees of Domain Admin
AD Control Path 656 almost 5 years ago Active Directory Control Paths auditing and graphing tools
PowerSploit 11,979 about 5 years ago A PowerShell Post-Exploitation Framework
PowerView 11,979 about 5 years ago Situational Awareness PowerShell framework
Empire 7,480 almost 6 years ago PowerShell and Python post-exploitation agent
Mimikatz 19,580 over 1 year ago Utility to extract plaintexts passwords, hash, PIN code and kerberos tickets from memory but also perform pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket or build Golden tickets
Tools Cheatsheets 1,044 about 8 years ago (Beacon, PowerView, PowerUp, Empire, ...)
UACME 6,448 over 1 year ago Defeating Windows User Account Control
Windows System Internals (Including Sysmon etc.)
Hardentools 2,935 over 1 year ago Collection of simple utilities designed to disable a number of "features" exposed by Windows
CrackMapExec 8,501 almost 2 years ago A swiss army knife for pentesting Windows/Active Directory environments
SharpSploit 1,753 about 4 years ago
Rubeus 4,199 about 1 year ago Rubeus is a C# toolset for raw Kerberos interaction and abuses
Koadic Koadic, or COM Command & Control, is a Windows post-exploitation rootkit
SILENTTRINITY 2,204 almost 2 years ago A post-exploitation agent powered by Python, IronPython, C#/.NET

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Videos
Beyond the Mcse: Active Directory for the Security Professional
BSides DC 2016 - PowerShell Security: Defending the Enterprise from the Latest Attack Platform
Six Degrees of Domain Admin... - Andy Robbins, Will Schroeder, Rohan Vazarkar
111 Attacking EvilCorp Anatomy of a Corporate Hack
Red vs Blue: Modern Active Directory Attacks & Defense
Offensive Active Directory with Powershell
Advanced Incident Detection and Threat Hunting using Sysmon and Splunk
Real Solutions From Real Incidents: Save Money and Your Job!
AppLocker Bypass Techniques

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Slides
From Workstation To Domain Admin - Why Secure Administration Isn't Secure
Exploiting AD Administrator Insecurities
How to go from Responding to Hunting with Sysinternals Sysmon
111 Attacking EvilCorp Anatomy of a Corporate Hack
Real Solutions From Real Incidents: Save Money and Your Job!

Awesome Windows Domain Hardening / Additional resources
ADSecurity
Harmj0y's blog
Sysmon SecuriTay's configuration file 4,828 over 1 year ago template with default high-quality event tracing
Explaining and adapting Tay’s Sysmon configuration and
Use of PSExec
Preventing Mimikatz attacks
Useful list of Windows Security Log Events
Introducing SharpSploit: A C# Post-Exploitation Library
From Kekeo to Rubeus
Windows oneliners to download remote payload and execute arbitrary code
Configuration guidance for implementing the Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 DoD Secure Host Baseline settings. 1,557 almost 3 years ago

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