Active Directory modernization is a crucial step for organizations looking to transform and enhance their IAM capabilities. In this blog, Julian Stephan dives into an overview of some of the benefits and considerations of Active Directory modernization.
In our first show in season four, new co-host Rich Dean joins Steve and Paul to discuss preparing your Active Directory against compromises, new Microsoft Teams features, and Greg Taylor joins to talk about his upcoming session at TEC.
At the end of March, Practical 365 traveled with the TEC European roadshow, traveling between three cities in Europe over a week, listening to experts talking primarily about security-focused topics aimed at improving your Microsoft 365, Azure AD and Active Directory. Read our whistle-stop tour of the most important points made by expert speakers.
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!
On this weeks' show, Steve and Paul review the TEC European Roadshow, new Microsoft Teams features, new Intune security features, in-product ads in SharePoint Online, and more!
Active Directory has been around for almost 25 years. As such, one might expect that – by now – we would have figured out to keep it safe against attacks. Yet, it remains a weak point in many organizations' cybersecurity defenses. When coupled with the challenges mentioned above, this can be a recipe for disaster. Why is this the case?
As organizations move to the cloud, on-premises environments (and their security) are put in the background as the focus shifts to the cloud. Nevertheless, most organizations I know are in a hybrid scenario where the on-premises environment holds the master data and synchronizes everything into Azure Active Directory. This blog explores how an on-premises environment is connected to the cloud and how an attacker might move from on-premises to the cloud laterally.
When setting up your SIEM, ingesting logs from Active Directory is essential. This blog dives into the two options for ingesting AD logs and compare their strengths and weaknesses.
Learn some of the main group policy attack pathways, why they are easily exploited, and how to mitigate them in this article by Darryl Baker.
Although we live and work in a cloud-first world, on-premises Active Directory (AD) remains a vital component of many companies' IT infrastructure. This article goes over five ways to keep Active Directory secure.
This article is a recap of Bryan Patton's and Joe Sharmer's TEC session. This session focused on key challenges facing today’s Active Directory administrators during consolidation and divestiture projects.
Figuring Out Recovery Strategies This session was an open panel conversation between Brian Hymer, Brian Desmond, and Patrick Ancipink, three acknowledged experts with a core focus on Active Directory. The key goal of the session was to discuss Active Directory (AD) issues, especially how to recover from them. Feedback came from the panel leaders and […]
