Securing Active Directory with Spencer Alessi
From RunAs Radio by Richard Campbell
May 6, 2026 · 37 min · Episode 1035
About this episode
Richard Campbell discusses securing Active Directory with Spencer Alessi, focusing on strategies to prevent exploitation during breaches.
How secure is your Active Directory infrastructure? While at Zero Trust World in Orlando, Richard chatted with Spencer Alessi about his work helping companies secure Active Directory, making it more difficult for black hats to exploit it for lateral moves during a breach attempt. Spencer talks about the increasing speed of these exploits, making it much harder to block them after the fact, so it's best to make AD too difficult to target. Jake Hildreth's Locksmith tools are a great place to start - free and open source. There are also Microsoft tools and Spencer's own AD Security Resource Kit to help evaluate your AD infrastructure and lock it down!
People in this episode
Host: Richard Campbell
Guest: Spencer Alessi
Topics covered
- Active Directory
- cybersecurity
- Zero Trust
- breach prevention
- IT infrastructure
Keywords
- Active Directory
- cybersecurity
- breach
- Zero Trust
- Locksmith tools
- AD Security Resource Kit
- IT security
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Zero Trust World, Microsoft
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