From helpnetsecurity.com
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Active Directory (AD), a directory service developed by Microsoft for Windows domain networks, is most organizations’ primary store for employee authentication and identity management, and controls which assets / applications / systems a user has access to. This makes Active Directory a valuable target for attackers and spur organizations to improve its security.
But Guido Grillenmeier says that the technology has been dropped from the corporate agenda.