Mastering Active Directory - Second Edition

Security

Data and identity security are very important in modern businesses. We are living in a world where identity is the new perimeter. A significant portion of this book is focused on the features of Active Directory that can secure your identity infrastructures from emerging threats. Active Directory allows you to use different authentication types, group policies, and workflows to protect the resources in your network. Even applications benefit from these technologies and methodologies. They help administrators to build different security rules based on departments and groups, in order to protect data and workloads. It also forces individuals to follow organizational data- and network-security standards.