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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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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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January 11, 2016
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, I’ve found that a critical step is often overlooked. Skipping this step can potentially set your deployment back by weeks! Fortunately, Microsoft has provided a tool to help speed …
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December 1, 2015
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. It generally works quite well without requiring a lot of attention. But the AD DS admin must put in extra work to take the service from a “working well on a day …
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October 20, 2015
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 (AD DS) on premises and Azure Active Directory in the cloud. This bridge consists of AD FS for federation and a succession of utilities, culminating in Azure AD Conne …
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