Improsec Blog Basic Microsoft Active Directory Security - Identify and Prioritize Low-hanging Risks

Securing Microsoft Active Directory (AD) is essential for most businesses’ operations, as AD is the backbone of user access and authentication. In mainstream media a common headline is ransomware shutting down a company for weeks; this is almost always because an AD was compromised by an attacker. Attackers take advantage of system administrators’ inability to identify, prioritize, and address security risks in their AD. This could be due to Microsoft's lengthy and often overwhelming documentation, or simply due to a lack of awareness of how easily it can be done. In this new blog post, Security Advisor Martin Sohn Christensen provides system administrators with a starting point for securing their AD; how to identify and prioritize low hanging security risks in AD.