Unless your AD is secure, nothing is. No modern corporation can operate without IT, and AD (Active Directory) is the central nerve linking all IT systems in a company. Unfortunately, AD was born toward the end of the last century (1996), an innocent time with no malware, ransomware and cyber attacks. The initial design and fundamental architecture of AD did not anticipate the types of cybersecurity threats that corporations must face today. Moreover, coupled with years of overlapping patch/version updates and organizational growth and expansion, AD has become the primary target to hackers globally when they attack corporations. Semperis has the greatest collection of Microsoft AD-related MVPs (Most Valuable Professional) in the industry. We will share relevant cases and Best Practices over AD security health check, threat detection, incidence response/remediation, as well as backup & recovery.