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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

AD audit

The only way to identify potential security threats and security breaches in infrastructure is through continuous monitoring and auditing. When it comes to auditing, the Windows system itself provides advanced auditing capabilities to identify such security issues. However, by default, only certain types of actions are audited. These auditing settings are handled by Windows audit policies.

Here, we are only going to look at advanced security audit policies, which were first introduced with Windows Server 2008 R2.

There are 10 categories of events we can audit in a Windows system:

  • System events
  • Logon/logoff events
  • Object access events
  • Privilege use events
  • Detailed tracking events
  • Policy change events
  • Account management events
  • Directory Service (DS) access events
  • Account logon events
  • Global object access auditing

Each and every event category also has subcategories.

Legacy Windows auditing...