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What are the consequences of losing Active Directory (AD)?

Did you know that 54% of breaches result from stolen or hacked credentials, according to DHS and CISA? Active Directory (AD) is a prime target for attackers, and compromising it can lead to catastrophic consequences for any organization. In this video, we dive into: Why AD is a prime target: Once compromised, attackers gain "the keys to the kingdom" and access to your entire enterprise. The hidden threat: Attackers can remain undetected in your network for up to 10 days, extracting sensitive information. On average, a data breach costs an organization around $4.4 million.

Add Alias in Active Directory

Microsoft Active Directory is a directory service for Windows domain networks. Active Directory serves as a centralized database which stores information about network resources, including users, computers, and services. It plays a significant role in network management and security, providing a framework for user authentication, authorization, resource management, and policy enforcement. This allows organizations to manage permissions and access rights across the entire network efficiently.

What is active directory and why is it on an attackers radar?

In the past year, 85% of organizations have experienced an Active Directory attack. To strengthen your security posture and defend your AD, you need to what attackers are looking for. In this video,'s experts give you an insight into what exactly is Active Directory and what makes it such a lucrative target for cyber attackers.

The Benefits of One Identity Active Roles - Based on PeerSpot Real User Feedback

One Identity’s suite of IAM solutions includes Active Roles, an AD (Active Directory) management tool designed to increase the security and efficiency of identity environments by consolidating all AD domains and Entra ID tenants onto a single console This ensures consistent enforcement of security policies through automation, enables identity data to be synchronized across the entire network, and reduces the number of accounts which have been erroneously granted access privileges.

Best practices to enhance Active Directory protection

Almost 90% of businesses employ Active Directory (AD) in their IT environments to manage user accounts and control access—yet every day, 95 million AD accounts are targeted by cyberattackers. It’s not surprising that AD is a popular target. Attackers can actively exploit user accounts and use them as an entry point to launch lucrative attacks. Find out how you can employ best practices to keep your AD safe from adversaries.

Active Directory security: Exploiting certificate services

Active Directory (AD) is crucial for an organization’s identity and access management strategy, but its complex architecture is also a prime zone for overlooked vulnerabilities. One such feature that’s often overlooked is Active Directory Certificate Services (ADCS). Active Directory Certificate Services ADCS is a service that provides a robust solution for managing digital certificates in a Windows Server environment. It leverages AD to manage certificates in a domain environment.

What are Active Directory Service Accounts?

Just like human users, computer programs also need access to resources on a network to function properly. There’s a difference in how these two groups—individuals and programs—access these resources, though. While humans utilize user accounts, computer programs use Active Directory service accounts.

Simplify and streamline identity security and management to protect your business using AWS Managed Microsoft Active Directory and One Identity Active Roles

Active Directory (AD) is the most prolific identity platform in the world. Like many companies already using AD on-premises, you may now be considering extending your identity environment to the cloud to create a hybrid landscape. There are many reasons behind this: resource constraints, strategy evolution, merger, acquisition or otherwise.

Domain Member: Digitally Encrypt or Sign Secure Channel Data

Domain Member: Digitally Encrypt or Sign Secure Channel Data is a Microsoft security setting, when enabled, ensures that all traffic to/from the secure channel is encrypted. It is a crucial component of Active Directory that's used by domain members and controllers for seamless communication. The secure channel is essentially a communication channel that allows users uninterrupted access to their user accounts in specific domains.