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AD CS Attacks for Red and Blue Teams Course & LAB

AD CS Attacks Training is your complete guide to mastering Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) exploitation and defense techniques. This course provides a practical, hands-on approach for cybersecurity professionals seeking to strengthen their understanding of both offensive and defensive strategies involving AD CS environments. Whether you’re part of a Red Team testing enterprise defenses or a Blue Team securing corporate infrastructures, this course delivers essential knowledge for real-world application.

Course Description

Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) is one of the most critical and often overlooked components of enterprise security. Misconfigurations and vulnerabilities in AD CS can lead to severe privilege escalation and domain compromise. In this AD CS Attacks for Red and Blue Teams Course & LAB, you’ll learn how attackers exploit AD CS, how defenders can detect and mitigate such attacks, and how to properly configure certificate services to enhance organizational security.

The course includes interactive lab exercises designed to simulate real-world attack and defense scenarios. You’ll explore attack chains like ESC1 through ESC8, Kerberos abuse, certificate template misconfigurations, and mitigation strategies using modern security tools. By the end, you’ll gain both attacker and defender perspectives — an essential skill set for any cybersecurity professional.

What You’ll Learn

• Comprehensive understanding of AD CS architecture and components.
• Exploitation of misconfigured certificate templates and services.
• Advanced Red Team tactics to abuse certificate-based authentication.
• Detection and defense strategies for Blue Teams.
• Real-world LAB exercises with AD CS privilege escalation.
• Mitigation best practices to secure enterprise certificate services.

Requirements

• Basic knowledge of Active Directory and Windows environments.
• Familiarity with penetration testing tools such as Mimikatz, Certify, and Rubeus.
• Access to a lab environment or virtual machine setup for practice.

About the Publication

This course is published by industry cybersecurity professionals with extensive experience in both offensive and defensive security. The instructors bring years of practical expertise working with enterprise infrastructures, helping learners master AD CS exploitation techniques with real-world relevance. Every module is crafted to ensure learners can confidently apply their skills in penetration testing, incident response, and secure configuration management.

Explore These Valuable Resources

• MITRE ATT&CK Framework
• Microsoft AD CS Documentation
• SpecterOps Blog on AD CS Attacks

Explore Related Courses

• Ethical Hacking and Penetration Testing
• Cybersecurity Fundamentals
• Windows Security and Administration
• Network Defense and Monitoring
• Red and Blue Team Operations

This AD CS Attacks Training course bridges the gap between offensive and defensive cybersecurity, empowering learners to identify, exploit, and secure AD CS infrastructures. Take your cybersecurity career to the next level — master both the attack surface and its countermeasures with this expert-led, lab-based learning experience.