Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control

by Jochen Nickel

Overview

Identifying and classifying information inside a company is one of the most important prerequisites for securing the sensitive information of various business units. Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control helps you not only to classify information, but it also gives you the opportunity and the functionality to provide a safe-net policy across your file servers, showing you some helpful ways of auditing and access denied assistance to improve usability.

Understanding the architecture, the design, and implementing the solution, to troubleshooting will be covered in a practical and easy-to-read manner. This book is packed with project-based examples with plenty of information about the architecture, functionality, and extensions of Dynamic Access Control to help you excel in real-life projects. The book guides you through all the stages of a successful implementation of Dynamic Access Control.

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control will teach you everything you need to know to create your own projects, and is an essential resource for reviewing or extending already existing implementations.

The book initially takes you through the task of understanding all of the functionality and extensions with ideas and overviews to help guide you in the decision process. The whole architecture will be explained in the main building blocks of Dynamic Access control. You will have a strong foundation and understanding of the claims model and Kerberos. Classifying information, the hardest part of the prerequisites to fulfil, is also covered in depth. You will also spend time understanding conditional expressions, and the method used to deploy them across your file server infrastructure. A special chapter is included for handling the data quality and the integration in other systems and strategies. Last, but not least, to get your solution up and running you will learn how to troubleshoot a Dynamic Access Control solution.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782178187
Publisher:	Packt Publishing
Publication date:	12/27/2013
Pages:	146
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Jochen Nickel is an Identity and Access Management Solution Architect working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland, and everyday he tries to understand new business needs of his customers, to provide better, more comfortable, and more flexible Microsoft Identity and Access Management Solutions. He has been working on a lot of projects, proof of concepts, reviews, and workshops in this field of technology. Furthermore, he is a Microsoft V-TSP Security, Identity and Access Management, Microsoft Switzerland, and provides his experience for the directly managed business accounts in Switzerland. He has also been an established speaker at many technology conferences.

Jochen is very focused on Dynamic Access Control, Direct Access, Forefront UAG/TMG, ADFS, Web Application Proxy, AD RMS, and the Forefront Identity Manager. Committed to continuous learning, he holds Microsoft certifications such as MCT, MCSE/A, MCTS, MTA, and many other security titles. He enjoys spending as much time as possible with his family to get back the energy to handle such interesting technologies.