Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Real-world Advice on How to Perform Security Audits in Active Directory

If you're into IT security you already know the importance of periodic security audits.

If you organization runs on Windows Server, you may probably also already know that Active Directory is the central repository of all user and computer accounts which employees use to logon and access IT resources on a daily basis, not to mention the security groups that are used to control access across the enterprise.

I've been performing security audits for years now, and so thought of sharing some helpful real-world advice on how to efficiently perform IT security audits, what to cover in these audits, how frequently to perform these audits and what tools to use to perform your audits.

If I can help a fellow IT admin do a better job at this, I will consider my efforts in this blog a success. Thanks and looking forward to sharing helpful insights with you - adios!

- M