Welcome to Directory Insights in 10 Minutes, a bite-sized cybersecurity briefing from Guardians of the Directory. I’m your host, Craig Birch—Principal Security Engineer and Identity Security Enthusiast.
In this episode, we dive into a critical misconfiguration that still lurks in many AD environments: DNS zones allowing unsecure dynamic updates.
🔍 Here’s what we cover:
What dynamic updates are and how they work in AD-integrated DNS
The three update modes—Secure Only, Nonsecure and Secure, and None
Why nonsecure dynamic updates are a serious attack surface
Real-world DNS attack tactics using spoofed records and tools like Responder
A simple PowerShell script to detect vulnerable DNS zones
How to fix your zones using DNS Manager
And why Cayosoft Guardian is your best defense against configuration drift
🛡️ In Active Directory, trust starts with DNS—make sure that trust isn’t anonymous.
PowerShell Detection Script:
Learn more about Cayosoft Guardian: https://www.cayosoft.com/guardian
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