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Enforce full disk encryption across the fleet with Group Policy — TPM-backed protection, XTS-AES ciphers, and recovery keys safely escrowed to Active Directory.
Default Windows auditing misses the events that matter — deploy Microsoft's recommended Advanced Audit Policy via GPO so logons, privilege use, and account changes are actually recorded.
Automatically randomize and rotate the local administrator password on every machine, ending the single-shared-password problem that enables domain-wide lateral movement.
Give Domain Admins and other Tier 0 operators a dedicated, locked-down workstation that never touches email, browsing, or productivity apps.
Separate Domain Admin, server admin, and workstation admin credentials into isolated tiers to block lateral movement and privilege escalation.
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