With this chapter, we are moving on to section four (the last section) of this book. This section includes chapters that cover Active Directory best practices, Active Directory troubleshooting, and extending an on-premises Active Directory infrastructure in Azure.
Infrastructure security is a very broad topic to discuss. It is not just security in Active Directory; it covers only a part of infrastructure security that is related to identities. At the same time, it is dependent on other security facts. As an example, before we protect the identities, we need to tighten the perimeter defense by setting up edge firewall rules to protect the internal network from outside threats.
Based on 2016 Internet Security Threat Report (https://www.symantec.com/security-center/threat-report) by Symantec, for a majority of the identity attacks, the main...