ACTIVE DIRECTORY

    Pingcastle

    🏰 Auditing Active Directory with PingCastle

    PingCastle, developed by Vincent Le Toux, is a lightweight yet powerful tool for auditing Active Directory (AD). Now owned by Netwrix, PingCastle continues to offer its powerful community version for free, ensuring accessible Active Directory security for all.

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    In this post, I’ll walk you through the free version in action, using a virtual AD setup with a Windows Server 2012 R2 domain controller and a test domain: mickgb.ovh, running in a VirtualBox environment.

    Oct 15, 2025
    Active Directory
    Pingcastle