From the course: CISSP Cert Prep (2021): 5 Identity and Access Management

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Account policies

Account policies

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Account policies

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- [Instructor] Security professionals can take advantage of account policies to apply security requirements and other configuration settings across a domain. Windows active directory provides group policy functionality to allow this type of configuration. Administrators may create group policy objects or GPOs which are just groups of configuration settings and then apply those GPOs to either an entire domain or smaller groups of users and computers known as organizational units. Let's go ahead and create a group policy object together on a windows server. We'll work together to design a policy that requires the use of a password protected screensaver for all users. Here I have the windows group policy management tool open and I'm going to drill down into my certmike.com domain and then within that domain I see a folder for group policy objects. When I expand that folder, I notice that there are only two default policies here.…

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