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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 is Microsoft Defender for Identity?

In the previous two editions of this book, this section was allocated to Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA). This is an on-prem platform to help us protect our identity infrastructure from advanced targeted attacks by automatically analyzing, learning, and identifying normal and abnormal behavior (from users, devices, and resources). Microsoft also had a cloud version of it called Azure Advanced Threat Protection (Azure ATP). This cloud service has now been renamed Defender for Identity. Microsoft ATA mainstream support ended on January 12, 2021, so going forward, users only can use the cloud-based Defender for Identity service.

When we consider a typical attack kill chain, we can identify four main areas to protect:

  1. Applications
  2. Endpoints
  3. Identity
  4. Data

Microsoft offers security solutions to protect all these areas:

  1. Applications – Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Microsoft...