Here is your 7 free tools that audit Active Directory before an attacker does

In most environments the path from a normal user to Domain Admin is already there, sitting quietly in a misconfiguration nobody reviewed. These 7 free tools surface it first. Each one covers a different weakness class, so running all 7 gives you a full picture of your domain.

PingCastle → scores your whole AD and ranks every risk in one HTML report

BloodHound → maps the hidden privilege paths that lead to Domain Admin

Certipy → finds AD CS certificate misconfigs (ESC1 to ESC16)

Snaffler → hunts passwords, keys and configs sitting on file shares

Group3r → flags risky GPO settings and recoverable GPP passwords

ADeleg → audits delegation and ACL misconfigs across the forest

ScriptSentry → finds writable logon scripts and plaintext creds in them

Run them against your own domain on a regular basis. Knowing your attack surface before someone else maps it is half the defense.

Save this for your next AD review and send it to whoever owns your domain.

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