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.
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... Read More
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? … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … 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
