Recycling is not only good for the planet, but it's also good for the security of your organization. In this article, Paul Robichaux discusses how to properly dispose of your devices so that you stay protected.
Whether you like it or not, MFA is coming for you! You can either deploy and support MFA for your users, or Microsoft is going to do it for you. The choice is yours. Learn more about how Microsoft will be enforcing MFA in the future, and what you should do.
Because of the way the Windows security model works, it’s not currently possible to eliminate the use of passwords for local administrator accounts. Given that fact, the next best solution is to remediate the biggest problems with passwords for these local accounts, including weakness, reuse, and tenure. In this article, we discuss how the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) helps with all of those!
Implementing zero trust in the world is a big hassle, often uncomfortable, and frequently dorky—plus, it can be expensive. At the same time, moving closer to a zero trust model helps harden your network significantly, and you may already have many of the tools and techniques you need available without much extra cost. In this article, we discuss how to take baby steps toward Zero Trust.
A writeup about the MERCURY attack by the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team reveals how a nation state actor linked to the Iranian government compromised an Azure AD tenant by using the AADConnect tool. In this article, we discuss how the attack developed and what you can do to prevent the same attack techniques being used against your tenant.
In this edition of Practical Protection with Paul Robichaux, we dive into understanding what multi-tenant applications are, what they can do, and how to manage them in order to keep your tenant and users safe.
Conditional Access policies are one of Microsoft's most versatile and flexible security features ever built. However, there’s one area that Conditional Access can help you protect that isn’t as well known—using IP restrictions to control where a specific app can be used.
Managing Office updates is one of those thankless tasks, like taking out the recycling, that is sometimes wearisome but contributes to making the world a better place. This article covers how you can keep track of these updates, and what can go wrong if you don't.
Hybrid work is really a mixed blessing—while it offers a lot of fantastic benefits for people who are able to take advantage of it, it can introduce some new and unpleasant security issues that you need to be prepared to deal with. This article dives into these new risks and how you can avoid them.
Practical 365 is very focused on discussing management and administration of Microsoft 365 environments. In this edition of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux pivots away from Microsoft and looks at another ecosystem that you might have in your network: VMware’s ESXi.
With an increase in ads being used to deliver malware, there is now a practical reason to consider blocking ads on your corporate network. Paul Robichaux offers 4 solutions to protecting your org from these pesty attacks.
In early December 2022, Rackspace had a major breach in their exchange environment that led to customers' mail data being stolen. This article explains what happened and what can be learned from this incident.
