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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)
Free Chapter
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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

Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cybersecurity framework (https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework) is based on three main things: protect, detect, and respond. All these components are connected to one another. When we implement a system, we first need to understand what to protect and how to protect it. So far in this book, I've explained the importance of an identity infrastructure and how and what we can do to protect it from emerging threats. Based on that, we can build a protected identity infrastructure, but we should understand that we can't close all the doors. We need to expect a breach at any time. But when it happens, we should have a system in place to detect it and notify us. This allows us to respond to the situation quickly and to minimize damage. In order to detect similar incidents, it is important...