In the audit, you will discover how an effective organizational unit deployment can help vastly improve security and control or weaken it! Attendees will also learn all about administrative rights and will see how to accurately assess where they reside within Active Directory is made during your audit. You will complete this course with a full understanding of this critical component of Windows and ensure that your own implementation of it is accurate, secure and effective.

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Mitglieder des ISACA Switzerland Chapter erhalten bei sämtlichen Kursen von ITACS Training einen Rabatt zwischen 100 und 300 CHF. Werden Sie daher Mitglied – es lohnt sich!

After completing this seminar, participants will be able to:

• recognize the importance of Active Directory in its role of security and control in Windows systems;
• learn to organize and structure Active Directory to facilitate improved controls and understand critical areas that are often ignored;
• describe the threats involved in inaccurate or inappropriate implementation decisions;
• clearly understand the tools and techniques used to analyze Active Directory;
• know the key steps in auditing this environment.

• You learn how the Login process works to help ensure Identification and Authentication and how you might use Active Directory to manage your environment in a secure and
  effective manner.

The course can be booked in combination with one or more of our other courses of the IT Security Training Week from -November 1 to 5, 2010.

Through an actual demonstration of An Active Directory audit you’ll learn how controls work in Forests and Tree structures and how to ensure Trusts do not negate your controls.

• A typical directory structure should include an Empty Root Domain and you will learn why this is good practice.
• To ensure your complete understanding you’ll learn about Sites and the Schema and how FSMO roles are managed.
• You will also understand the role of Organizational Units in ensuring security, along with the usual roles of users and groups.
• Finally, you’ll see how to implement sound and effective audit and logging, ensuring that not only are you protected by the implementation of good security practices but by sound and effective detective controls as well.

As an added benefit you will learn what
controls are new in each version of the Windows Operating System:

• Windows 2000
• Windows 2003
• Windows 2008