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Role-based access control (RBAC) in Azure

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Azure RBAC is the authorization system used to control who can do what across Azure resources. It is designed to keep access granular, auditable, and aligned to real operational responsibilities—without turning permissions into a…
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Monitoring Group Policy for backdoors

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Detecting Pass-the-Hash attacks

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Use Protected Groups for critical OU containment

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Build departmental OU structures for decentralization

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Auditing nested group memberships for security risks: the expert’s comparison guide Reading time: ~14–18 min • Last updated: 2025-09-29 Nested groups are convenient, flexible, and dangerously opaque. This…
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