Minimal investment on infrastructure and the promise of less maintenance are luring many organizations away from Exchange Server and towards Office 365. After spending considerable time choosing a suitable Office 365 plan, your next question might be, How do I …
Active Directory is still vital for every organization that’s staying on-premises or moving to a hybrid environment. Protecting Active Directory from attacks is also essential, but many of the current technologies fall short of providing the overall security needed. Combining …
In my previous post, we looked at how event correlation can be used to deal with advanced persistent threats (APTs). The thing is, an APT is just one ugly face of a much larger epidemic: the data breach. In …
If organizations and administrators can be alerted when they’re under attack, then they can take immediate action to negate the attack. The issue with alerts indicating attacks lies with knowing when actions are actually attacks or just normal behavior. Knowing …
Among all the pesky attacks that keep security administrators working late, advanced persistent threats (APTs) are possibly the most lethal. An APT is a long-term, targeted attack which involves stealthily spying on an organization’s network activity or siphoning off sensitive …
Sometimes, when you get a call regarding a password reset, you can already guess who it’s from. Most organizations have one—that one employee who somehow manages to forget their password and gets locked out of their account more than everyone …
Cyberthreats are on the rise and breaches are becoming more common. Many businesses rely on technology to protect themselves, but attackers also use technology to find ways to get around these defenses. With artificial intelligence making its way into the …
In Part 1, we touched on how routine monitoring of object life cycle changes in the local Administrators group can help strengthen your organization’s overall security. But with most businesses performing audits only once a year, unknown users can …
Back to school Active Directory password management blues are a huge problem. If you’re an IT administrator at an educational institution, you know exactly what we’re talking about. At the start of the school year, the huge flow of new …
Imagine you’re an admin in a company that prides itself on its security practices, which includes using firewalls, IDP systems, and IPS systems. You have an employee who is a local administrator with highly sensitive data on their computer. This …