Active Directory Security Auditing

Active Directory is the foundation of identity and access management and compliance and auditing in a Microsoft Windows Server based IT infrastructure.

In Windows Server based IT infrastructures, all vital IT security components including user and computer accounts, security groups and policies, and Microsoft Exchange mailboxes are stored in and protected by Active Directory.

Proactive security auditing can help organizations ensure that all vital IT security components such as user accounts, security groups and group policies, which are all stored in and protected by Active Directory, remain adequately secure at all times.

This section helps IT managers and IT administrators –

• understand what security aspects of resources to audit in Active Directory
• identify the Top-50 security audit reports to generate from Active Directory
• learn how to audit the security state of resources in Active Directory

NOTE: Information on how to protect the Active Directory (i.e. AD security measures) is currently not within the scope of the charter of this website.