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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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Book Image

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

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By: Dishan Francis

Overview of this book

Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide for Information Technology professionals looking to improve their knowledge about MS Windows Active Directory Domain Service. The book will help you to use identity elements effectively and manage your organization’s infrastructure in a secure and efficient way. This third edition has been fully updated to reflect the importance of cloud-based strong authentication and other tactics to protect identity infrastructure from emerging security threats. Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition provides extensive coverage of AD Domain Services and helps you explore their capabilities as you update to Windows Server 2022. This book will also teach you how to extend on-premises identity presence to cloud via Azure AD hybrid setup. By the end of this Microsoft Active Directory book, you’ll feel confident in your ability to design, plan, deploy, protect, and troubleshoot your enterprise identity infrastructure.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
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Index

Active Directory Security Best Practices

Hackers are breaking the systems for profit. Before, it was about intellectual curiosity and pursuit of knowledge and thrill, and now hacking is big business.

- Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick was once known as the world's most wanted hacker. Most of the cyber security laws that exist today were first introduced to the world because of him. For anyone who is interested in cyber security, I highly recommend his book Ghosts in the Wires. It not only talks about his life as a hacker, but it also explains the evolution of the "hacker" over time. He started hacking into phone systems first and then, as technology developed, he challenged himself with breaking into computer systems. For him, it wasn't about profit, but today, things are way more complicated. According to https://vz.to/2Zm81bn, 90% of data breaches are finically motivated. Hackers are targeting more valuable assets such as intellectual property, state secrets...