Best Practices for Securing Active Directory

Bret Arsenault, Microsoft Chief Information Security Office has recently released a refreshed version of 'Best Practices for Securing Active Directory' with additional scope to cover Windows Server 2012. This document comes as part of the 'How Microsoft does it' series

The newest version of this Document direct from Microsoft covers:

• Avenues to Compromise
• Reducing the AD attack surface
• Monitoring AD for signs of Compromise
• Planning for Compromise

Anyone using Active Directory should certainly give this document the time of day, although daunting at over 300 pages, Bret goes into some great detail of Who, What, Why, When and How with some great advice on how to harden your Business Critical System.

Grab yourself a copy from here.