Course Summary

Active Directory Security Configuration & Management course. Active Directory is the core of the authentication and validation infrastructure in most organizations. Properly securing it against attackers is an important step in protecting your organization from compromise and financial losses. This course will teach you everything from the basics of Active Directory structure to specific Group Policy settings to restrict authentication types. You will go through the necessary steps to properly secure your Active Directory infrastructure. You will learn about the most common attacks against Active Directory systems and how to protect against them. Additionally, we’ll cover some common misconfigurations you might encounter when working with Active Directory and how to fix them for added security. At the end of the course, we’ll take a look at best practices for monitoring and logging Active Directory events and some high-priority event IDs that should be monitored.