Guidance on how to perform security audits in Active Directory environments
Active Directory Security and Active Directory Delegation play a mission-critical role in global security and present an open challenge. A good Active Directory Audit Tool / Active Directory Reporting Tool / Active Directory Auditing Tool / Permissions Analyzer for Active Directory can help Audit Active Directory, generate Active Directory Reports and mitigate Active Directory Risks such as Active Directory Privilege Escalation, and find out who can reset your windows password. Today, even the US Department of Homeland Security runs on Active Directory.Today, tools like the Active Directory Effective Permissions Tab and Active Directory Permissions Analyzer can be used to perform Active Directory Permissions Analysis, prevent Token Bloat, Dump Active Directory ACLs, perform an Active Directory Audit and an Active Directory Access Audit.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Real-world Advice on How to Perform Security Audits in Active Directory
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
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