Summary

All these new features in Active Directory will help you in the daily task of securing your environment. The key to making your environment as secure as you can is to understand the technologies we use. But never forget that "secure" is only a word in the dictionary. Nothing is secure forever—only when you first implement it and just before the technology is widely known—because people will try to hack it as soon as it becomes available.We never know what will happen tomorrow—that is why it is so important that we understand the underlying technology and the biggest threat of all: users.

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