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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

Evaluating the security requirements

Azure AD comes with a lot of features and services that can be used to protect identities in cloud-only or hybrid environments against modern threats. Since it is a managed service, these features and services have been continuously improved according to trends. Each and every security feature or service is not needed for every Azure AD environment. We can decide on the security requirements based on the following points:

  • Nature of the business: Identity protection and data protection are important for every infrastructure; however, some businesses require advanced protection due to the sensitivity of the data they process, compliance requirements, and legal requirements. As an example, a financial institution will require advanced protection compared to a college due to differences in the sensitivity of data.
  • Skills: Even if you have advanced security features and services, if you do not know how to use them appropriately, they...