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Dishan Francis
Dishan Francis
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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
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Delegating permissions

The Kerberos protocol itself was built to prevent identity compromise. This is all good on paper, but in reality, attackers use many different methods and tools to attack AD environments. Therefore, it is important to know the features, techniques, and tools that we can use to protect AD environments further.

In an AD environment, there are different types of management tasks. Managing domain controllers, adding, modifying, and removing users, adding, managing, and removing groups, resetting passwords, and adding devices to a domain are just some examples. In a structured IT department, these management tasks can be assigned to different job roles.

As an example, let's assume that Rebeladmin Corp.'s IT department has first-line (first support contact), second-line (intermediate), and third-line (senior) IT teams. When considering the AD management tasks, first-line engineers are usually involved with tasks such as user password resets, setting...

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Dishan Francis

Dishan Francis is an IT professional with over 15 years of experience. He was a six-time Microsoft MVP in enterprise mobility before he joined Microsoft UK as a security consultant. He has maintained the RebelAdmin technology blog over the years, with lots of useful articles that focus on on-premises Active Directory services and Azure Active Directory. He has also written for other Microsoft-managed blogs such as canitpro and ITopsTalk. When it comes to managing innovative identity infrastructure solutions to improve system stability, efficiency, and security, his level of knowledge and experience places him among the very best in the field.
Read more about Dishan Francis