About This Project

AD-PowerAdmin is a free, open-source PowerShell framework for Active Directory administrators. It automates the security checks and enforcement workflows that should be running in every AD environment -- password breach detection against the Have I Been Pwned hash dataset, KRBTGT rotation, ACL auditing for DCSync exposure, honeytoken decoy accounts, inactive account lifecycle enforcement, Group Policy security baselines, audit policy validation, and more.

What Sponsorship Supports

The next phase of AD-PowerAdmin is production code signing for all releases.

For a tool that runs with Domain Admin privileges against live Active Directory environments, code signing is not a cosmetic addition. It gives administrators a verifiable guarantee that what they are deploying came from me and has not been modified in transit -- a meaningful security control for a security tool.

Maintaining that guarantee has real, recurring costs:

Code signing certificate -- A trusted certificate from a recognized certificate authority carries a monthly fee. A self-signed certificate does not provide the assurance that administrators in regulated or security-conscious environments require.

Secure development tooling -- Static analysis, signing infrastructure, and auditing tools used in the release pipeline before code ships.

I have covered these costs out of pocket since the project started. Sustaining signed production releases and continued feature development requires ongoing financial support to do properly.

If the Project Has Been Useful

If AD-PowerAdmin has helped you find a compromised password before an attacker did, surface a DCSync-capable account that had no business existing, track down an account lockout source in your event logs, or simply gave you documented evidence that your environment is being actively monitored -- a sponsorship is the most direct way to keep that work going.

Every contribution offsets real monthly costs and gives the project the runway to ship the next security capability without shortcuts.