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The digital identities of modern enterprises exist in a dynamic environment. Read thought leadership from experts worldwide regarding the constantly changing global IT environment and insights for keeping up with growing demands, and securing against escalating threats and vulnerabilities.
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A Valentine’s Day Premonition
This is the story of one of the most successful delivery people in the industry……this story captures one of his greatest accomplishments in recent history The Setting: Inside the Loading Dock, at the back of the building of a Global Fortune 500 company (we’ll call it “Global, Inc”) Loading Dock Security: Can we help you? Stranger: Why yes you can! My name is Moe Petya and I’m here to spread Valentine Cheer!! Security: How did you get in here? Who are you …
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January 29, 2019 |
We Can’t Do Anything About The Weather, But… When bad things happen, we can dramatically speed your time to recovery! This seems to be a common concern, and one that is front and center with Board Members and Senior Management. What do we do if we’ve lost all access to our systems and applications? Are we prepared? What’s our RPO? (Recovery Point Objective) and What’s our RTO? (Recovery Time Objective). And BTW, I’m from Missouri, so show me! Can you? Are you truly prepared? Have you tested your plan …
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December 19, 2018
NotPetya, the Russian Wiper
You know Petya, and Sandworm, and Spyware, and Rootkits. Mimikatz and WannaCry, and backdoors and botnets. But do you recall……. the most damaging attack of all?…. NotPetya the Russian Wiper, had a very nasty bite. And if you ever saw it, you would even say “Good Night!”. All of the other malware’s… used to laugh and call …
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November 29, 2018
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 hav …
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October 2, 2018
Azure AD Connect Confirmation
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 Con …
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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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