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Upgrading to WS2016/2019? Consider a Safety Net for AD
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, North America
A colleague here at Semperis recently looped me into a conversation with the manager of a large Active Directory environment running on Windows Server 2008 R2. With end of support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 coming up soon (officially January 14, 2020), planning is well underway for upgrade…
Cyber Scenarios Expose Shortcomings of BMR
- Darren Mar-Elia | VP of Products
Ransomware and wiper attacks are causing organizations to re-evaluate their backup and recovery capabilities. An obvious concern is whether backups are safe – for example, are they offline where they can’t be encrypted or wiped. While this is a good first step, it’s just that. We also need to evaluate…
NSA Sounds the Alarm on BlueKeep
- Darren Mar-Elia | VP of Products
July 29, 2019 Update: With over 800,000 Windows systems still unpatched and vulnerable (as of July 2), concern over BlueKeep remains high, especially after a detailed guide on how to write an exploit was posted online last week. Other indications that the vulnerability is not going unnoticed include publication of…
Your Active Directory was compromised, is it all lost? – Part 2
- David Lieberman
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…
We Can’t Do Anything About The Weather, But…
- Steve Mackay
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…
NotPetya, the Russian Wiper
- Steve Mackay
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…
Active Directory Change Resiliency
- Sander Berkouwer
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…
Azure AD Password Protection: The Cloud Security Service your Active Directory Needs Now
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, North America
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…
