Randy Franklin Smith's
Audit and Assessment of Active Directory Training

What You Will Learn

• Forests, Trees, Domains, OUs, Sites
• Relationship of Windows Server to Active Directory
• Impact of AD risks on your organization's databases and applications
• How to scope your Active Directory environment and plan your audit
• Why domains are not a security boundary
• Enforcing controls over all-powerful administrators
• Why you have to audit the entire forest not just the application server
• Exactly what evidence and interview questions to ask
• Tools for speeding up your audit
• The difference between OUs and groups
• Why the entire forest - not just domain - must meet a common level of security
• How to classify trust relationships and their potential risk
• Why local accounts are bad for security
• Best practices such as a verfiable way to control access to resources managed completely within AD
• How to follow least privilege and segregation of duty within the IT department
• How to isolate domain controllers from risk
• How to protect physically insecure domain controllers at branch offices and why that's so important

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Additional Resources Security Log Quick Reference Chart Security Log Resource Kit Learn about the SharePoint Audit Log Patch Tuesday Analysis

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