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WHITEPAPER: The 5 Most Critical Points
for Active Directory Security Monitoring



NetVision offers its industry expertise and best practices in this document that explains the five most critical points of security monitoring within Active Directory. This document contains detailed information that enables you to get a firm grasp on critical Active Directory activity that could be a current security risk.

As a bonus, there are two additional points for security monitoring within the Windows file system.

If you're beginning your effort, this document is an excellent starting point for creating a set of actionable security information that will both help minimize risk and position your organization for an easy response to security audits.

If you're a seasoned Active Directory auditor, this document provides real-world descriptions of the risks you should be concerned about.


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Excerpt from section on Organizational Unit Changes:

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Provisioning systems and other Identity Management tools use the OU structure to make important account management and authorization decisions. In some cases, account provisioning or de-provisioning will fail and the system will start generating errors if an OU is moved or renamed. This results in system downtime, lost productivity, and troubleshooting costs.

Monitoring the OU structure is critical to ensuring that the Active Directory security infrastructure is being well maintained and that security policies are being enforced. Moving an OU under a new parent OU, for example, could give owners of the new parent OU administrative rights on objects within the new child OU.

It's also important to note that Active Directory Group Policy Objects (GPOs) can be applied directly to OU objects. GPOs can apply important security policies to a set of objects based on their position within the OU structure. Part of monitoring OU changes should include reporting-on changes to the GPOs applied to organizational units as well as perhaps alerting when critical GPOs are removed from an OU.


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