Research of Vulnerabilities and Security Measures of Systems Based on LDAP

Student: Vidunkina Karina

Supervisor: Maxim Shubin

Faculty: HSE Tikhonov Moscow Institute of Electronics and Mathematics (MIEM HSE)

Educational Programme: Cyber Security (Specialist)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2020

The object of the research is LDAP, LDAP directory and Active Directory as an example of a system built using LDAP. The existing vulnerabilities and attacks on LDAP and Active Directory protocol are investigated, in particular, protection measures for actual threats are offered. Devised protection method is script in Python language. The received recommendations for protection of the system constructed with use LDAP, can be used both at opening of new information system, and for application to already operated for increase of existing level of protection.

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