A secure channel is a crucial component of Active Directory that’s used by domain members and controllers for seamless communication. Domain Member: Digitally Encrypt or Sign Secure Channel Data is a Microsoft security setting, which, when enabled, ensures that all traffic to/from the secure channel is encrypted. The secure channel is basically a communication channel that allows users smooth access to their user accounts in specific domains.

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is a UBA-driven auditor that bolsters your Active Active (AD) security infrastructure. With over 250 built-in reports, it provides you with granular insights into what’s happening within your AD environment, such as all the changes made to objects and their attributes. This can include changes to users, computers, groups, network shares, and more.

Active Directory (AD) is the foundation of managing identities, provisioning users and issuing permissions to network resources. These permissions range from the lowest levels of access to the highest levels of admin rights for privileged users. While having control over these permission levels is useful, organizations can open themselves up to serious vulnerabilities if they don’t manage the permission levels carefully.

The Active Directory linked attribute is a special type of Active Directory attribute that is used to describe relationships between objects. This post explains what linked attributes are and how they work.

3Standard users having elevated privileges is never good news. Accounts such as domain admins, enterprise admins, schema operators, krbtgt, administrators, and replicators, are a few privileged user groups within an Active Directory (AD) environment. The AdminCount attribute is an AD attribute set to “1” on privileged user accounts.

ManageEngine ADAudit Plus is a UBA-driven auditor that bolsters your Active Directory (AD) security infrastructure. With over 250 built-in reports, it provides you with granular insights into what’s happening within your AD, such as all the changes made to objects and their attributes. This can include changes to users, computers, groups, network shares, and more.

The compromise of a single Active Directory credential can lead to unauthorized access to your servers, applications, virtualization platforms and user files across your enterprise. One of the reasons for credential vulnerability is that Windows stores credentials in the Local Security Authority (LSA), which is a process in memory.

Microsoft recently updated its guidance for how organizations should approach privileged access in Active Directory (AD). A key component is shifting from the tiered access model (TAM) and the Enhanced Security Admin Environment (ESAE) (also known as the Active Directory Red Forest) to the Enterprise Access Model (EAM). This article explains the drawbacks of the older models and the key principles of EAM.

With attackers constantly developing new tactics to compromise credentials and data, it is increasingly important to monitor critical systems such as Active Directory (AD) for signs of malicious activity. Many organizations turn to security information and event management (SIEM) products for help.