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Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control

By : Jochen Nickel
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Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control

By: Jochen Nickel

Overview of this book

Identifying and classifying information inside a company is one of the most important prerequisites for securing the sensitive information of various business units. Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control helps you not only to classify information, but it also gives you the opportunity and the functionality to provide a safe-net policy across your file servers, showing you some helpful ways of auditing and access denied assistance to improve usability. Understanding the architecture, the design, and implementing the solution, to troubleshooting will be covered in a practical and easy-to-read manner. This book is packed with project-based examples with plenty of information about the architecture, functionality, and extensions of Dynamic Access Control to help you excel in real-life projects. The book guides you through all the stages of a successful implementation of Dynamic Access Control. Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control will teach you everything you need to know to create your own projects, and is an essential resource for reviewing or extending already existing implementations. The book initially takes you through the task of understanding all of the functionality and extensions with ideas and overviews to help guide you in the decision process. The whole architecture will be explained in the main building blocks of Dynamic Access control. You will have a strong foundation and understanding of the claims model and Kerberos. Classifying information, the hardest part of the prerequisites to fulfil, is also covered in depth. You will also spend time understanding conditional expressions, and the method used to deploy them across your file server infrastructure. A special chapter is included for handling the data quality and the integration in other systems and strategies. Last, but not least, to get your solution up and running you will learn how to troubleshoot a Dynamic Access Control solution.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 1. Getting in Touch with Dynamic Access Control

Dynamic Access Control (DAC) is a complete, end-to-end solution to secure information access and is not just another new feature of Windows Server 2012. DAC can really help you to solve some daily problems you may have in giving access to data on distributed file servers. For example, Jack works on a project called Ikarus, and he needs some information from the marketing department, but Jack is not really a member of that department. Therefore, you are going to build some security groups to solve this request, and a complex group scenario starts to exist, because the groups and their memberships will grow and in each case become more and more complex. In addition, it is always a challenge to audit and monitor such a solution. You might know situations such as "Who had access to the sensitive finance information on June 1, 2013?" Or the wonderful "access denied" message a user encounters that leads them to ask for access to a particular piece of information. Immediately you start searching to provide the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) of the organization the right information for evidence on who the owner of this information is for the CISO or the data owner to decide whether or not to give the user proper access. These are a few short examples that we will discuss in the following chapters to give you a broad overview. Do not forget that we will go in deep in the following chapters.

The topics we will cover in this chapter are:

  • Business needs, purpose, and benefits

  • Inside the architecture of DAC

  • Building your smart test lab

  • Getting started with your first real-life solution