Alexandra
Weaver
Solution Engineer at Netwrix
"Protecting Identity"
"Protecting Identity"
Wed May 21 - 12:50 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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05/21/2025 12:50 PM
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Session: Protecting Identity
I would like to present on the importance of protecting the identity within an organization and various ways to protect the identity. The main identity store is Active Directory, and it holds the keys to the kingdom so I will focus on the importance of Active Directory, common attack vectors, and some basic "how to" of cleaning up and protecting Active Directory.Key Takeaways
- A couple of ways that an Engineer or Administrator can go back and help to secure their identity store, their Active Directory environment.
Bio
Alexandra has twenty years’ experience supporting Active Directory in a wide variety of organizations, from government to some of the world's best-known companies. After 8 years supporting the DOI/Bureau of Land Management's Active Directory, she moved to Intel to support their worldwide corporate and manufacturing forests. After some time in financial services IT, she moved to Nike where she also supported their worldwide production forest.Her experience has included merger & acquisition projects where she migrated newly acquired companies into an existing Active Directory infrastructure, an Identity and Access Management implementation & migration project, upgrading domain controllers and associated downstream dependent applications and providing Active Directory support. Active Directory is Alexandra’s first tech passion, and she enjoys deep diving into it as associated technologies continue to evolve.
