About the course

Objectives of Windows Active Directory course is, to introduce the participants with basic knowledge and skills needed to perform a review of Windows Active Directory. Course offers a review of basic active directory concepts and domain principles, access controls and authentication concepts, review and assessment of security settings, review of common audit pittfals and compensation controls. It also introduces additional tools commonly used for active directory assessment.

Participants will be able to:

• Define the primary purpose of directory services.
• Describe the difference between centralized and decentralized authentication.
• Describe key concepts of Active Directory 2003.
• Describe principles of Windows access controls.
• Identify differences between local and domain accounts.
• Describe management of domain accounts.
• Identify group policies and audit settings.
• Describe Active Directory authentication.
• Describe use of single-sign-on (SSO) for authentication.
• Identify key areas of SSO system.
• Describe procedure for acquiring key security settings for Active Directory.
• Describe relations between assessment of Active Directory and Windows Server.
• Identify key screens in management of Active Directory environment.
• Consider compenzation controls for Active Directory.
• Describe benefits and risks of compenzation controls.
• Present commonly used tools for Active Directory assessment.
• Review results of these tools.