Security Reporting in Microsoft Windows Server Environments

The Microsoft Windows Server family of operating systems provides an enterprise-grade, secure and feature-rich network operating system platform upon which organizations can reliably run their IT infrastructures.

Running a Microsoft Windows Server based IT infrastructure however involves the deployment and maintainence of numerous advanced technologies ranging from Active Directory to Group Policy, Kerberos, DNS, DHCP and in some cases Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft PKI technologies.

Reliable insight into the various aspects of an IT infrastructure is essential to operating trustworthy infrastructures and this insight can be largely aided by periodic and accurate security reporting.

In this blog, we examine the various advanced aspects of security that play a role in Microsoft Windows Server based IT infrastuctures and look at how to generate vital security reports that can provide valuable and actionable insight into the security state of every aspect of these IT infrastructures.