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Published inNov 2021
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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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In a typical identity infrastructure attack, the first target is usually a regular user account or an endpoint. This is because highly privileged accounts and critical systems have advanced protection compared to end user devices (in most environments). A typical end user account does not have the privileges or capabilities to do much damage, but a privileged account does. Once an attacker completes an initial breach, the next thing they are looking to do is to get their hands on a privileged account.

If they start to mess around in an endpoint by doing things such as deleting files, increasing CPU/RAM usage, and damaging applications, then the end user will contact the IT department for help. IT department engineers are usually members of Enterprise Admins, Domain Admins, or at least a local administrator group of the endpoint. To log in and troubleshoot, engineers have to use their privileged accounts. If the attackers are running programs for password...

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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