Insights From Thought Leaders Around The Globe
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.
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... Read More
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 … Read More
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 identity source, … Read More
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 maker, or data professional, Microsoft Ignite … Read More
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 … Read More
Updated: Azure AD Password Protection became generally available April 2nd, 2019. The service is largely the same as I presented in this post, with the following updates: The two proxy limit has been lifted. When registering the proxy and the Active Directory forest, 3 authentication modes are now available. Two of them support MFA so … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
Azure Active Directory Administrative Units: Azure AD Delegation of Administrative Permissions The move to the cloud often means that we need to learn new ways to manage access to cloud based resources. The methods of delegating administrative control we are accustomed to on-premises are often no longer applicable to cloud-based resources. Office 365 has long … Read More
I feel the dilemma ‘Between a rock and a hard place’ applies to many medium-sized businesses when it comes to cloud identity in the face of Microsoft retargeting their identity investment towards the cloud. These organizations may be too big to fully benefit from Identity Management-as-a-Service, but too small to really afford the impact an … Read More
It’s been almost 30 years since the movie “Hackers” was released and many of us, when we think of a cyberattacker, still picture a guy wearing a hoody, hanging in his basement while hacking away at a keyboard to gain notoriety. However, a lot has changed in the past three decades and the portrait of … Read More
