Access control and PKI

Capture screenshots taken during the lab in your Microsoft® Word document as specified within the lab instructions.

At the end of the lab, you will be asked to respond to the following in a 2- to 2.5-page response at the end of your Microsoft® Word document:

· Explain the types of information that can be stored in an Active Directory user record.

· What are some of the additional tabs which are available in the Active Directory Users and Computers "Advanced Features" mode?

· What are some of the specific challenges and risks associated with account management in a large infrastructure? 

· How can inadequate access controls or access management leave critical information vulnerable?

· What protections does encryption offer and how important is key management to keeping any encryption system secured?

· Consider a cloud-hosted Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) environment with many users accessing these systems from all over the world. What advantages or challenges might there be managing these identities and associated keys?

· Finally, conclude this week's assignment with a page explaining how the tools and processes demonstrated in the lab might be used by an infrastructure administrator to help secure an environment.