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July 21, 2025 4 mins

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:

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