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Your Active Directory was compromised, is it all lost? – Part 2
Hi, This is part two of a blog that I had written earlier. The premise of part one was to better understand what are the options that companies face should their Active Directory be compromised. How can they get back up and running as quickly as possible? How can it be done with as many assurances as possible that they are not restoring malware back into the instance of the restored Active Directory Forest? In order for the second part …
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March 13, 2019 |
Information protection consists of three pillars: confidentiality, integrity and availability. Hybrid Identity is no different; the three pillars still apply. However, availability is hard for Azure AD Connect. As a key link in the Hybrid Identity chain, it should be the focus, but not the only focus. High availability for Azure AD Connect explained About Azure AD Connect Azure AD Connect takes care of synchronization of objects and their attributes from an on-premises identity store (either Active Directory Domain Services, or an LDAP version 3-compatible service) to Azure AD. It …
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August 1, 2016
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 that makes it robust also makes it hard to understand. This lack of understanding often leads to assumptions in your recovery strategy that can leave your AD broken without …
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July 25, 2016
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 how it was the first Microsoft tool produced in years to make monitoring Active Directory easier. Then recently Microsoft sort of took it away. Then, more recently, th …
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July 19, 2016
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 solutions. This trend is usually driven by a need to increase overall security, or to satisfy regulatory requirements. As a hybrid service, Microsoft’s Azure Multifacto …
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July 11, 2016
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 long-held industry best practices. Microsoft has recently published a white paper, “Microsoft Password Guidance” that explains their new password guidance, based …
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June 27, 2016
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 moving to web services, hosted in the cloud (best definition: your stuff on someone else’s computer) whose new capabilities are rapidly deployed and refine …
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February 27, 2016
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 may think you have gotten rid of them (or at least reduced them to a manageable amount), but they still keep popping up. And as we all know, SaaS applications, whether they’re personal or social …
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