WannaCry, NotPetya, MBR-ONI and Friends: Tales of Wiper Attacks and Active Directory Destruction
Ransomware attacks on enterprises are escalating both in frequency and complexity. Many in the security space believe that WannaCry and NotPetya were only a sample ...

Preliminary Lineup Announced for 2018 Hybrid Identity Protection Conference
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Trees Falling in a Forest: Chronicles of a Data Breach
"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"

Mickey Bresman Discusses Why Hacker Attacks On Active Directory Are Increasing
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Kerberos at the Company Party
Back in 1999, I wrote a book on Windows 2000 Server in general, and Active Directory in particular. I try not to look back at ...

Semperis’ Directory Services Protection Platform™ Receives 2018 Cybersecurity Excellence Award
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Semperis Makes Significant Strides in Active Directory Protection with Record Growth in 2017
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Mickey Bresman Shares Why It's a Good Time to Be Protecting Active Directory with USA Weekly
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Protect your Active Directory from the Azure AD Connect Vulnerability
In recent blog posts, I’ve been talking a lot about new Active Directory attack methods where attackers are compromising user accounts that lead to increasing ...

Attacking Active Directory: Tools and Techniques for Using your AD Against You
The Problem with Active Directory Since it was introduced in 2000, Active Directory has become the most critical application for the majority of enterprises. The problem ...

Hiding in Plain Sight — Discovering Hidden Active Directory Objects
At our recent Hybrid Identity Protection Conference, several of us spoke about the increasing use of Active Directory as a subject of interest in malware ...

Darren Mar-Elia Discusses Protecting Active Directory on Security Weekly
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Mickey Bresman Talks Active Directory Protection on CEO Money
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How Do I Protect Against Ransomware?
Guest column by Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic. “Ransomware” is on the rise using “targeted phishing attacks” and is being used for financial blackmail ...

Semperis Featured Among Leading Startups in Globes
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Maintaining Information Security Compliance Through Active Directory Services
Now more than ever, technology and compliance teams need to work together to protect the integrity of their organizations. Sensitive information is stored and transferred ...

Semperis Offers In-Depth Preview of the Hybrid Identity Protection Conference
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Darren Mar-Elia Talks AD-Aware Forest Recovery With Petri Dish
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5 Security Policies Every CISO Must Enforce Now
Guest column by Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic. Chief Information Security Officers, CISOs, bear some of the heftiest weights on their shoulders of anyone ...

Semperis to Demo Active Directory Protection Technology at Microsoft Ignite 2017
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How to Crack an Active Directory Password in 5 Minutes or Less
The massive Equifax data breach compromised sensitive information for roughly 143MM people and is a sobering reminder that security flaws still exist in most organizations. ...

The HIP Conference: DEC Updated for the Hybrid Identity Era
If you ask any identity professional that's been involved with Microsoft identity for more than 10 years, you can pretty much assume they've heard of ...

Semperis Appoints IT Industry Leader Darren Mar-Elia As Head Of Product
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The Importance of Auditing your Active Directory Services: Part 1
This blog series addresses why Active Directory auditing is necessary, deep dives into auditing methodology and suggests best practices for comprehensive AD auditing. Who Moved My ...

Top 6 Considerations for Choosing an Active Directory Disaster Recovery Solution
Most IT departments have no issue admitting the high importance of a highly available Active Directory. It’s become clear that while Active Directory downtime is ...

The Top 5 Things to Know About the Latest Cyber Attacks
The latest rash of cyber attacks has both IT experts and C-level executives wanting to, well, cry. Malware, such as WannaCry and Petya/NotPetya, has been ...

Hybrid Identity Protection Conference 2017 Announced in New York
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Better Identity Protection Begins with Employee Education
IT departments all over the world have long struggled to protect their organization’s identities against attackers who try to access information. In recent years we ...

Protecting Your Active Directory Permissions
When we think of protecting Active Directory, we typically think of a few aspects of the directory service that need to be monitored and protected ...

Why You Should Pay Attention to Excessive Privilege in Active Directory
I addressed Active Directory excessive privilege in the past as part of other, broader topics. But recently I started thinking it’s a great time to ...

SDM Software and Semperis Partner to Streamline Active Directory Security, Recovery, and Group Policy Management
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Active Directory as A Target: Why AD Defense Is More Critical Than Ever
We can start with the obvious. Active Directory is the cornerstone of an increasing number of business functionalities, and every year more work hinges on ...

Partnership announcement - Route443
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Semperis Expands Advisory Board to Include IAM Expert Sean Deuby
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Two New Microsoft Hybrid Services Dramatically Simplify Connecting your Active Directory to Azure
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of two major new capabilities that will make integrating your on-premises Active Directory to Azure AD much, much easier. ...

Microsoft Global Startup Roadshow 2016
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Mickey Bresman - Huffington Post interview
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Using AD FS To Change Your AD Password Anywhere, Anytime
One of the really annoying things about passwords is that you have to remember them. If you can't remember your password at a SaaS provider, ...

NIST joins Microsoft in Changing How We Should Think About Passwords
On the heels of Microsoft's updated password recommendations, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) has come out with its own updated password guidelines. ...

Understanding Azure AD Password (Hash) Sync
Now that businesses are adopting cloud computing as part of their business model, a large percentage are choosing to connect their on-premises Active Directory environment ...

Active Directory Corruption Comes In Two Flavors
Active Directory is a very robust application, as it should be for such a fundamental building block of a company's IT infrastructure. But the architecture ...

Active Directory Replication Status Tool (ADREPLSTATUS) Rises Again
Back in 2012, I wrote about a nifty tool known as the Active Directory Replication Status Monitor (inevitably shortened to ADREPLSTATUS for efficiency's sake) and ...

When you should use Azure MFA and when you should use MFA Server
One of the most common security-related trends I'm seeing with customers is an interest in adding multifactor authentication (MFA) to both their new and existing ...

Microsoft upends traditional password recommendations with significant new guidance
Based on research gleaned from literally billions of login attempts to its Azure cloud service, Microsoft updates its password recommendations - and throws out several ...

Hidden Gems: The Azure Active Directory Whitepapers
It's pretty well accepted now that the world is moving away from painstakingly planned, piloted, deployed, and maintained on-premises applications in local data centers. It's ...

SaaS Passwords Are Like Cockroaches
And in the case of passwords, each one - especially each forgotten one - is a little security risk scurrying around in the shadows. You ...

IdFix - discovery and remediation of Active Directory objects
As I help companies connect their on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) to Azure AD in order to use Microsoft services like Office 365, ...

8 Situations That Put Your Active Directory At Risk
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) has grown to be a marvelously reliable, highly scalable, and fault tolerant core component of your company’s IT infrastructure. ...

Azure AD Connect: the staging server
Microsoft continues to work on a sore spot in its hybrid identity strategy: The challenge of deploying its identity bridge between Active Directory Domain Services ...

Why On-Premises Active Directory Still Matters in a Cloud-Connected World
With all the talk about stampeding to the cloud, I get asked fairly regularly if I think Active Directory will be going away. No, AD ...