Skills 101 Exclusive: Secure AD Consolidation

Active Directory consolidation is never just a technical exercise—it’s a security, governance, and business‑risk decision. In this Skills 101 session, Quest experts Joe Tobias, Jeff Shahan, and Julian Stefan share real‑world lessons learned from secure AD migrations, mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures. This discussion explores how organizations approach secure Active Directory consolidation, including preparing hardened target environments, assessing risk in source forests, handling policy differences, managing application dependencies, and navigating the political and organizational challenges that often derail identity projects. Through customer case studies across financial services, energy, and highly federated enterprises, the panel explains why identity is now the security perimeter—and how poor consolidation decisions can dramatically increase attack surface and operational risk. If you’re planning an AD consolidation, forest migration, merger, acquisition, or divestiture, this session provides practical guidance on making security‑first decisions that protect both the business and the brand. Mehr erfahren