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 ...

Thinking The Unthinkable: Do You Have An Active Directory Forest Recovery Plan?
If you want to make an Active Directory administrator uncomfortable, ask them about their recovery plan. When you ask this question, many AD admins will instead ...

An Entrepreneur's Top 5 Takeaways from Microsoft WPC 2015

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Vulnerability in Kerberos Allows Elevation of Privilege
Recently, Microsoft has released a security update (MS14-068) for Windows Server. The patched vulnerability is in the Windows Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC), which generates ...

Azure Active Directory vs. Active Directory Domain Services
I'll start by saying that today's Identity technologies can be very confusing. There are many Services (in the cloud era everything is a service), protocols, ...

What are good and bad Active Directory snapshots
In this post I would like to explain a little bit more about Active Directory snapshots, and how you can or can't use them. 'First of ...

What's Active Directory Forest Recovery?
Now before we talk about Active Directory Forest Recovery, let's try to take a look at what are the different recovery scenarios, and when will ...

So why Active Directory Disaster Recovery matters?
Well – sounds kind of straight forward, right? If my AD is down no-one can logon to their PCs, access network resources, launch apps etc’. ...