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Active Directory Trust Misclassification: Why Old Trusts Look Like Insecure External Trusts

19 NOV 2025
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Active Directory anomaly 😯 intra-forest trusts created under Windows 2000 lack a key identifying flag, even after domain and forest upgrades. Learn how to find this legacy behavior persisting to this day, and use crossRef objects to correctly distinguish these trust types 👌

➡️ Find this article on Tenable’s blog: Active Directory Trust Misclassification: Why Old Trusts Look Like Insecure External Trusts

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