You're reading from Mastering Active Directory, Third Edition Design, deploy, and protect Active Directory Domain Services for Windows Server 2022

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2021

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801070393

Length 780 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

PowerShell

Tools

Active Directory Domain Services

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Dishan Francis

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Preface

1. Active Directory Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER

2. Active Directory Domain Services 2022

3. Designing an Active Directory Infrastructure

4. Active Directory Domain Name System

5. Placing Operations Master Roles

6. Migrating to Active Directory 2022

7. Managing Active Directory Objects

8. Managing Users, Groups, and Devices

9. Designing the OU Structure

10. Managing Group Policies

11. Active Directory Services – Part 01

12. Active Directory Services – Part 02

13. Active Directory Certificate Services

14. Active Directory Federation Services

15. Active Directory Rights Management Services

16. Active Directory Security Best Practices

17. Advanced AD Management with PowerShell

18. Hybrid Identity

19. Active Directory Audit and Monitoring

20. Other Books You May Enjoy

21. Index

PKI in action

In general, we know "encryption" is more secure and that it requires secure sockets layer (SSL) certificates. But the question is, do we really know what the role of a certificate is and how this encryption and decryption works? It is very important to know how these all work, as it makes deployment and management of PKI easy.

Symmetric keys versus asymmetric keys

There are two types of cryptographic methods used to encrypt data:

Symmetric keys: Symmetric methods work in exactly the same way as your door lock works. You have one key to lock or open. This method is also known as the shared secret method or private key method. Virtual private network (VPN) connections and backup software are good examples of systems that use symmetric keys to encrypt data.
Asymmetric keys: This method, on the other hand, uses a key pair to perform the encryption and decryption. It includes two keys: one is a public key, and the other one is a private...