Food for thought those who do not know, Have you ever think about or know an attacker can be present on a network for more than 200 days before being detected? Imagine the damage that can be done to an organization during that time: Accessing sensitive data about your company, products, employees, and clients. Altering the operating system on every computer in your network. Causing irreparable damage to your company – both in terms of dollars and damaged reputation – before you even know the attacker’s there. Hackers typically gain con07ol of a network using a privileged account (e.g., domain admin) within 24-48 hours of initiating the attack. They move silently through the network, avoiding actions that would alert IT to their presence. If they are discovered, it’s usually by chance or an external notification. Do you know how a security breach actually happens? How hackers get a foothold, and what they do once they’re in? Most importantly: Are you as secure as you think you...

Virtualizing entire Active Directory without Physical Domain Con07oller As an Active Directory Adminis07ator I would think like, Can we setup or create a 100% virtual Active Directory without Physical Domain Con07ollers? It mitigates the risk of virtualization platform malfunction that will affect entire Active Directory platform, is this correct? Will discuss Pros and Cons of Virtualizing Windows Active Directory Domain Con07ollers Also Read:  Differences between Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V and Hyper-V Server 2012 R2   Pros : Cookie cutter solution: Easy to deploy a new branch, they could build everything that was needed consistently and quickly DR – even without AD resource available the operations team could start the build/recovery of the 3 machines One powerful box in a rack was plenty grunty enough and reduced hardware support costs Very easy and flexible to manage – like assign more RAM/disks/CPUs Some things we could 07oubleshoot quicker – li...