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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, Americas
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…
WannaCry, NotPetya, MBR-ONI and Friends: Tales of Wiper Attacks and Active Directory Destruction
- Mickey Bresman
Ransomware attacks on enterprises are escalating both in frequency and complexity. Many in the security space believe that WannaCry and NotPetya were only a sample of what’s coming. Increasingly, Active Directory (AD) is at the center of cyberattacks, with wipers like MBR-ONI utilizing AD to maximize the attack reach and,…
How Do I Protect Against Ransomware?
- Joseph Carson
Guest column by Joseph Carson, Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic. “Ransomware” is on the rise using “targeted phishing attacks” and is being used for financial blackmail and poison or corrupt data. No one is excluded from these threats and no company or individual is too small to be a target.…
Top 6 Considerations for Choosing an Active Directory Disaster Recovery Solution
- Thomas Leduc
Most IT departments have no issue admitting the high importance of a highly available Active Directory. It’s become clear that while Active Directory downtime is rare when it does happen, it’s devastatingly costly. Most modern enterprises live and die by their identity infrastructure, and Active Directory is primarily at the…
Why You Should Pay Attention to Excessive Privilege in Active Directory
- Thomas Leduc
I addressed Active Directory excessive privilege in the past as part of other, broader topics. But recently I started thinking it’s a great time to dedicate an entire article to it. This is not a random thought on my part. All you need to do is look at a few…
Two New Microsoft Hybrid Services Dramatically Simplify Connecting your Active Directory to Azure
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist, Americas
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of two major new capabilities that will make integrating your on-premises Active Directory to Azure AD much, much easier. Passthrough authentication (PTA) and Seamless Single Sign-On (I'm choosing to call it 3SO) will allow your users to easily access Azure AD applications such as…
