1 00:00:01,140 --> 00:00:04,420 Hello, and welcome to Pluralsight! This module is entitled 2 00:00:04,420 --> 00:00:08,140 Secure Hybrid Active Directory Accounts. 3 00:00:08,140 --> 00:00:11,020 Hopefully you're coming into this second lesson from the first 4 00:00:11,020 --> 00:00:14,360 module in which we looked at Windows Server Security and some of 5 00:00:14,360 --> 00:00:18,510 the Microsoft cloud‑based and local products you can use to help 6 00:00:18,510 --> 00:00:20,560 enforce system security, 7 00:00:20,560 --> 00:00:23,450 things like preventing malicious or suspected 8 00:00:23,450 --> 00:00:25,330 malicious code from running, and so on. 9 00:00:25,330 --> 00:00:28,680 In this lesson, we're concerned with account security. 10 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:33,290 So we'll configure password policies for Active Directory users, we'll 11 00:00:33,290 --> 00:00:38,250 enable password block lists, we'll understand the protected users global 12 00:00:38,250 --> 00:00:42,950 groups, we'll manage account security on RODCs, read‑only domain 13 00:00:42,950 --> 00:00:47,220 controllers, we'll pick up some best practices from Microsoft on 14 00:00:47,220 --> 00:00:48,880 hardening your domain controllers, 15 00:00:48,880 --> 00:00:52,980 that is, your read/write DCs, and then we'll finish with a flourish by 16 00:00:52,980 --> 00:00:58,240 covering authentication policies and their associated silos. 17 00:00:58,240 --> 00:00:59,240 In this course, 18 00:00:59,240 --> 00:01:01,920 Secure On‑premises and Hybrid Infrastructure, we 19 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:04,100 have six modules. As I mentioned, 20 00:01:04,100 --> 00:01:08,270 the first module was about securing the Windows Server OS. Now we're 21 00:01:08,270 --> 00:01:12,750 actually in module one of two covering account security, 22 00:01:12,750 --> 00:01:13,740 as you can see. 23 00:01:13,740 --> 00:01:16,200 Then, in the fourth lesson, we'll remediate Windows 24 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:24,000 Server Security issues using Azure. Then we'll do Windows Server networking, and lastly, storage