Glossary

Using Active Directory Group Policy to enforce secure configuration across many Windows systems at once, applying hardened settings, restrictions, and security baselines centrally rather than configuring each machine individually.

Group Policy lets administrators push configuration to domain-joined Windows machines centrally, and Group Policy hardening uses it to enforce security at scale: applying hardened settings and baselines, disabling risky features, restricting privileged behavior, and controlling scripting and software. Done well it ensures consistent hardening across the estate, but because Group Policy is so powerful, it is also an attacker target, so its own security and integrity matter in directory-services defense.

Introduced in: Directory Services Security

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