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Mastering Active Directory. - Second Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Mastering Active Directory. - Second Edition

By: Dishan Francis

Overview of this book

Active Directory (AD) is a centralized and standardized system that automates networked management of user data, security, and distributed resources and enables inter-operation with other directories. This book will first help you brush up on the AD architecture and fundamentals, before guiding you through core components, such as sites, trust relationships, objects, and attributes. You will then explore AD schemas, LDAP, RMS, and security best practices to understand objects and components and how they can be used effectively. Next, the book will provide extensive coverage of AD Domain Services and Federation Services for Windows Server 2016, and help you explore their new features. Furthermore, you will learn to manage your identity infrastructure for a hybrid cloud setup. All this will help you design, plan, deploy, manage operations, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure in a secure and effective manner. You’ll later discover Azure AD Module, and learn to automate administrative tasks using PowerShell cmdlets. All along, this updated second edition will cover content based on the latest version of Active Directory, PowerShell 5.1 and LDAP. By the end of this book, you’ll be well versed with best practices and troubleshooting techniques for improving security and performance in identity infrastructures.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
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Section 1: Active Directory Planning, Design, and Installation
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Section 2: Active Directory Administration
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Section 3: Active Directory Service Management
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Section 4: Best Practices and Troubleshooting

JIT administration and JEA

In the previous sections, we learned about features that were introduced by Microsoft to prevent pass-the-hash attacks. These types of attacks are still used by attackers in identity infrastructure attacks, so it's important to prevent these attacks whenever and wherever possible. But is this going to secure our identity infrastructures 100%? Software vendors, including Microsoft, release new products, features, security updates, and patches to protect systems, infrastructures, and workloads from various types of threats.

All these companies spend lots of money annually on research and development to protect their software, solutions, and customers from emerging threats. However, we still see constant news about identity infrastructure security breaches. As I see it, this is not a problem with technology. The myth of zero-day attacks is no longer...