Prevent your organization’s worst IT nightmare using five password management practices

Data breaches are a nightmare for an organization. Not only do they impact a company’s reputation, but they often end up costing huge sums of money. IBM...

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Password sync in hybrid Active Directory

On any given day, employees toggle between multiple business-critical applications, both on-premises and cloud-based, requiring them to remember different passwords. This often leads to password fatigue and, subsequently, a...

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How to make password management more secure and efficient

Among the various tasks that IT administrators carry out on a daily basis, password management takes center stage. Gartner estimates that about a third of help desk calls are...

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Managing updates to local cached credentials for remote users in a hybrid Active Directory environment

Among the many issues remote users face, forgotten passwords can be a significant roadblock to productivity, as they require help from an administrator. When a user logs...

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Azure AD Password Protection: The good, the bad, and the ugly

People often use common words as their passwords so they don’t forget them. This practice impacts security severely, making it easy for hackers to easily breach accounts by guessing these common passwords. Microsoft’s Azure...

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2FA based on OU/group membership in hybrid Active Directory

In a previous blog, we saw how two-factor authentication (2FA) secures access to cloud apps in hybrid AD. 2FA adds an extra level of security...

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Three critical password management blunders that hackers regularly exploit and best practices to replace them

IT teams often shoulder a number of important security-related responsibilities. It’s essentially up to them to ensure organizations’ networks are secure. For most organizations, comprehensive password...

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Complying with NIST password guidelines

Passwords are the most widely used form of authentication across the globe and serve as the first line of defense to critical systems, applications, and data....

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Bringing SSO to hybrid Active Directory

As enterprises transition to a hybrid Active Directory (AD) environment, it’s important that they address identity management challenges. For example, employees often struggle to remember a different password for each...

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