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Security Architecture

Decisions that shape everything downstream: Zero Trust design in Microsoft 365, identity governance, and the architecture decision records that explain to the next engineer why it was built this way.

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7 July 2026 · 14 min read

Core Security Settings to Secure Your Active Directory Environment

Six Active Directory defaults still shipping in most domains, each mapping to a named 2026 attack: LAPS, NTLM signing, Kerberos, gMSA and machine quota.

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