Within your IT infrastructure, Active Directory (AD) is the central hub for controlling access to resources and keeping your business operational. However, Active Directory’s importance to your organization puts it in the crosshairs of threat actors. If Active Directory is successfully breached, attackers can get their hands on privileged credentials and potentially compromise company data security or affect applications. Implementing Active Directory security best practices is therefore an important part of planning a digital security policy.
Protecting Active Directory means making life as difficult as possible for cyberattackers. These 12 Active Directory security best practices can help reduce the risk of security breach and increase your cyber resilience. The goal: Reduce the attack surface to protect and harden your Active Directory environment.
- Maintain a minimal number of privileged users.
- Use groups to assign privileges.
- Secure accounts with administrator privileges.
- Enforce modern password policies.
Download the full report to learn remaining Active Directory Security Best Practices.
