Active Directory Management: A Comprehensive Guide

Active Directory and Entra ID, are constantly being used for lateral movement and privilege escalation to help threat actors perform ransomware and cyber extortion. One of the biggest reasons is because these environments are not secure by design. The other reason is we as administrators keep using legacy methods to grant privileges because that is what the business requires. What if we could have central administration, threat detection, real time change monitoring, the ability to roll back a change, and as a last resort the ability to recover Active Directory in minutes vs hours or days. Let's be honest, this would allow us to flip the narrartive against these threat actors that are in the business of exploiting companies for a monetary value.

A single mistake managing Active Directory or Entra ID could put your organization at risk. The wrong delegation or misconfiguration opens the door for an attacker.