Active Directory (AD) administrators are heading into 2019 with security on their minds. The attacks of the past combined with the movement toward hybrid environments has added a new set of responsibilities to every AD administrator. Since many organizations now …
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Five best practices for Active Directory password management [Free webinar]
Passwords are an unavoidable part of both employees’ and IT administrators’ lives. Organizations need a solution that can combat redundant IT service calls, manage passwords efficiently, facilitate password self-service, and do much more, from anywhere, at any time. Are you …
Minimizing membership in the local Administrators group on workstations
If you have a long list of users with administrative rights, there’s a good chance you’ve offered excessive amount of privilege to accounts that don’t need them. Your IT staff has no control over local Administrators or their desktops. This …
ADSolutions’ year in review, Part 1: ADManager Plus
2018 has been a wonderful year for the ManageEngine ADSolutions team, filled with many exciting, new product features. As we take a look back at some of these features, we’d like to give a shout-out to all our users. We …
Monitoring users for unusual file activity
As we discussed in a previous blog, the user behavior analytics (UBA) engine of ADAudit Plus can help administrators identify anomalies by establishing a baseline of normal activities specific to every single user. In this blog, we’ll look at …
Conquer it with correlation—Part 3: Cryptojacking
In the previous posts of this blog series, we discussed advanced persistent threats and data breaches, highlighting the importance of data security in today’s times. In the final post of this series, we’ll talk about cryptojacking, a type of …
Import or export your mailboxes to PST files with this free tool
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 …
Leveraging logic and AI to detect malicious behavior in Active Directory [Webinar]
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 …
Conquer it with correlation—Part 2: The data breach
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 …
Monitoring Active Directory and Windows computers to detect attacks [Webinar]
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 …