Many large-scale cyber attacks on business enterprises today focus on gaining administrative privileges. Hackers use various attack techniques such as "Pass-the-Hash" and e-mail "phishing" to try to gain access rights. If people use poor practices, such as making their day-to-day account a domain administrator, then a hacker's job is easier. The root problem, as described in Microsoft's Best Practices for Securing Active Directory, is that enterprises need to "eliminate permanent membership in highly privileged groups" and "implement controls to grant temporary membership in privileged groups when needed." MIM does just this, eliminating permanent membership of elevated groups by implementing a time-sensitive control over access. You can read more about Pass-the-Hash and securing Active Directory at http://bit.ly/SecuringAD.
Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook
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Overview of this book
Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 is Microsoft’s solution to identity management. When fully installed, the product utilizes SQL, SharePoint, IIS, web services, the .NET Framework, and SCSM to name a few, allowing it to be customized to meet nearly every business requirement.
The book is divided into 15 chapters and begins with an overview of the product, what it does, and what it does not do. To better understand the concepts in MIM, we introduce a fictitious company and their problems and goals, then build an identity solutions to fit those goals. Over the course of this book, we cover topics such as MIM installation and configuration, user and group management options, self-service solutions, role-based access control, reducing security threats, and finally operational troubleshooting and best practices.
By the end of this book, you will have gained the necessary skills to deploy, manage and operate Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 to meet your business requirements and solve real-world customer problems.
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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
Overview of Microsoft Identity Manager 2016
Installation
MIM Sync Configuration
MIM Service Configuration
User Management
Group Management
Role-Based Access Control with BHOLD
Reducing Threats with PAM
Password Management
Overview of Certificate Management
Installation and the Client Side of Certificate Management
Certificate Management Scenarios
Reporting
Troubleshooting
Operations and Best Practices
Index
Customer Reviews