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Your Active Directory was compromised, is it all lost?
Following a 10-year stint in virtualization technologies, I joined Semperis and dove into the world of Active Directory. Over the last three years, which included some of the most vicious malware attacks ever documented, I think I have finally come up to speed on this part of the IAM world. Here are a couple of conclusions I have come to. First, security attacks are not a matter of if, but rather when. If you want to dispute that, check your …
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October 2, 2018 |
Keeping directory sync in sync with security best practices With Azure AD Connect, synchronizing directory data from on-premises Active Directory to Azure AD is both easy and efficient. But is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Security best practices limit sharing to a strict need-to-know basis. However, Azure AD Connect synchronizes 151 attributes by default. You read that right: 151 attributes. So, if you perform the “Express Settings” installation of Azure AD Connect, Azure AD will include a total of 151 attributes (excluding attributes that are …
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September 13, 2018
Should you upgrade to Active Directory 2016…or stay where you are?
Should you upgrade your existing AD forest to Windows Server 2016 Active Directory (aka AD 2016), or should you leave it where it is? Despite the focus and activity around adopting cloud services today, the fact remains that Active Directory continues to underpin it all. In addition to longstanding dominance as the on-premises i …
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September 12, 2018
5 reason to visit Semperis at Microsoft Ignite
The tech conference Microsoft Ignite is right around the corner. If you’re attending the conference this September 24th-28th in Orlando, you’re most likely starting to build out your schedule thinking about which sessions to attend and which booths to visit. Whether you’re an enterprise developer, IT implementer, IT decision mak …
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July 18, 2018
Active Directory Change Resiliency
Last month, I have had many discussions with many people on Active Directory Backup and Restore. Now, the obvious topics to talk about are disaster recovery and forest recovery. Of course, we talked about these, but in many of the discussions last month, we focused more on what I’d call ‘change resiliency’, the ability to revert …
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July 9, 2018
Azure AD Password Protection: The Cloud Security Service your Active Directory Needs Now
Microsoft has finally provided a service that mitigates the single most critical password-related security risk in the enterprise today: common passwords. You should kick the tires on this new Active Directory capability today, so you can deploy it as soon as it reaches general availability. This is a long post; if you aren’t in …
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June 26, 2018
Semperis chosen as a 2018 Red Herring Top 100 North America Winner
June 20, 2018, Los Angeles, U.S. – Today Red Herring announced Semperis as a winner of the Top 100 North America 2018 Award for forging a niche in the cutting-edge sector of cybersecurity. The event was held at the Marina Del Rey Hotel in California where the winners celebrated at a special awards ceremony after the two-day conf …
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June 20, 2018
Security Playbook in Azure Security Center
Keeping your cloud-based IT infrastructure secure is a constant effort. The people who want access to your data are always working on ways they can get in, so both you and Microsoft need to be working on ways to keep them out. Microsoft is aware of this responsibility, and since you are reading this blog I assume you are as well …
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