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Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition - Third Edition

By : Dishan Francis
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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

Microsoft Defender for Identity

In several places in this book, I have talked about why we need the Zero-Trust approach to security. Zero-Trust is not a product or service it is a mindset. We need to understand the importance of this approach and implement relevant controls where ever possible. Especially with the COVID-19 pandemic, the word "Zero-Trust" is resounding in the tech industry, and this completely makes sense due to the following reasons:

  1. Today, IT security is getting more and more complex. Security is no longer someone's job alone. Everyone has a role to play when it comes to IT security. We have more and more devices connecting to corporate networks and data coming from remote locations. Attacks are also getting more and more sophisticated.
  2. The "perimeter defense" security strategy is no longer working. We have data and applications running on on-prem as well as in the cloud. Users are connecting to these services from everywhere...