Jeff Petters

Windows PowerShell is a powerful tool for automating tasks and simplifying configuration and can be used to automate almost any task in the Windows ecosystem, including active directory and exchange....

Penetration testing allows you to answer the question, “How can someone with malicious intent mess with my network?” Using pen-testing tools, white hats and DevSec professionals are able to probe...

John the Ripper (JtR) is one of the hacking tools the Varonis IR Team used in the first Live Cyber Attack demo, and one of the most popular password cracking...

Are you one of the 90% of organizations that Gartner predicts will move to hybrid cloud infrastructure by 2020? Most of that 90% will use Microsoft Azure Active Directory for...

Doing business in a cloud is more than just a lovely way to pass the time. Cloud computing services make sense from both a strategic and performance angle. However, business...

It’s a good time to be in cybersecurity. Incident Response(IR) teams are growing like crazy, and there are more jobs in cybersecurity than qualified candidates. The challenge for organizations is...

Permission propagation is when you set permissions – also called Access Control Lists (ACL) – on a folder or a drive, and the folder properties apply those permissions to all...

You may have heard that Microsoft changed their guidance on password expiration policies. On May 23, 2019, they released a blog post explaining their decisions. As cybersecurity experts already know,...

Zero Trust is a security model developed by former Forrester analyst John Kindervag in 2010. Since then, Zero Trust has become one of the more popular frameworks in cybersecurity. Recent...

HIPAA fines cost ten companies $28.7 million in 2018, which broke the previous 2016 record for HIPAA fines by 22%! That’s only 10 HIPAA cases resolved out of 25,912 complaints...