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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

What does PAM have to do with AD DS 2022?

AD DS 2022 allows time-based group membership, which makes the process outlined above possible. This feature was first introduced with AD DS 2016. A user is added to a group with a Time-to-Live (TTL) value and, once it expires, the user is removed from the group automatically. For example, let's assume your CRM application has administrator rights assigned to the CRMAdmin security group. The users in this group only log in to the system once a month to do some maintenance. But the admin rights for the members in that group remain untouched for the remaining 29 days, 24/7. This provides enough of an opportunity for attackers to try and gain access to privileged accounts. So, if it's possible to grant access privileges for a shorter time period, isn't that more useful? Then, we can be assured that, for the majority of the days in a month, the CRM application does not run the risk of being compromised by an account in the CRMAdmin...