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Secure and efficient IT infrastructure with Microsoft Active Directory Tiering

Microsoft Active Directory Tiering gives you the help you need to categorise your systems and identities in your AD. It gives you greater security and efficient management of all digital assets and user access across your organisation's network.

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3 benefits of tiering

What is Active Directory?

Active Directory can be seen as the backbone of your organisation's IT infrastructure. It's a component that controls access to your data and ensures efficient management of user accounts, devices and applications across the network.

With AD, you centralise the management of your security and network resources, giving your administrators access to implement policies, deploy software, manage access rights and ensure a consistent user experience across the network.

3 benefits of Microsoft Active Directory Tiering

Where Active Directory is a component of your IT infrastructure, Microsoft Active Directory Tiering is a model for organising and managing data in your AD environment. With MS AD Tiering, your Microsoft environment is categorised into layers (tiers) based on usage and the severity of privilege escalation and attacks.

There are three major benefits of AD Tiering:

#1 Administration

You get more efficient management of user accounts, access rights and resources across your organisation's IT infrastructure.

#2 Performance

Optimise the performance of your infrastructure by organising resources hierarchically; critical resources remain easily accessible while less used resources are strategically placed to minimise usage of space.

#3 Security

Minimise the risk of a hacker gaining access to all or large parts of your Microsoft infrastructure at once by separating your Microsoft infrastructure into tiers based on criticality and ensure that administration of a given tier can only be performed by identities that belong to that specific tier.

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Greater security with the tiering method

When you organise your AD with the tiering approach, a natural consequence will be improved security in your IT infrastructure.

Primarily because tiering allows you to implement different access controls to resources and place the most critical and sensitive data and resources at the most secure levels. This reduces the risk of unauthorised access or misuse where it matters most.

MS Tiering can also contribute to improved monitoring and reporting of the activities in your AD environment. Tiering your data makes it easier to identify abnormal or suspicious activities that may indicate security threats or policy violations.

Why choose Microsoft Active Directory Tiering from us?

With us by your side, you get access to a dedicated team of experts who help with everything from planning and implementation to ongoing support and maintenance.

Our model implementation is based on internally developed PowerShell scripts and group policies that have been fine-tuned over the years to best fulfil our customers' needs.

We help you design and implement a tier model that suits your organisation's needs. You'll also receive guidance on how to maintain and organise your infrastructure in the future to keep it up-to-date and secure.

Specifically, you get:

A design document describing the tier model and its implementation in your environment.
A tiering guide document that describes the process of tiering a system so you can tier systems yourself in the future.
A set of group policies (GPOs) that enforce the tier model on the systems in Active Directory.
A set of PowerShell scripts that:
- Maintain the tiering model
- Alert you if a configuration is introduced that breaks the model so you can fix it immediately.

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