Microsoft’s antivirus suite detected a 400 percent increase in the number of ransomware encounters from December 2015 to July 2016. Active Directory manages access to nearly every piece of the IT infrastructure from user access, corporate data, and applications to computers, storage, and the network. 75 percent of all breaches involved the loss or theft of privileged credentials. Attackers can use stolen administrative access for weeks without detection, resulting in breach costs in the millions. IT organizations can keep privileged credentials for Active Directory safe.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3163068/how-to-secure-active-directory.html