Active Directory security work went better as a group. David Fuhr on how 27 municipalities hardened their servers in 12 weeks ...

Active Directory, a directory service provided by Microsoft Windows, plays a pivotal role in configuring permissions and network access for administrators. Comprising components such as Active ...

On the surface, Active Directory groups are a simple and straightforward way to manage identities (users and/or computers) and assign permissions. Users or computers are added as group members, and ...

Organizations trying to improve the security of their Active Directory environments face a simple problem: Attackers have too many options. The average enterprise AD environment has thousands or tens ...

Microsoft's Active Directory (AD) has been a hot target for attackers for about as long as businesses have relied on the directory service to manage users, applications, data, machines, and myriad ...

Over time, cybercriminals have uncovered the tried-and-true attack tactics that ensure success and maximize profits. One lesson learned: by compromising Active Directory (AD), they can access an ...

Microsoft this week previewed a way to create dynamic groups in Azure Active Directory that avoids some of the limitations with its existing "nested groups" approach. This "memberOf" dynamics group ...

Organizations are investing more than ever to protect themselves from the looming threat of cybercrime. Insurance broker and risk advisor Marsh revealed that US cyber insurance premiums rose by an ...

It may not be commonly known that criminals using ransomware to attack companies are not the elite minds of cybersecurity. They are not performing their own research into zero-day exploits just to ...

The Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell, which is included with Windows Server 2008 R2, can be used to administer Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) objects, including group objects.