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How to Use Azure Private Endpoints to Restrict Public Access to WebApps
As an Azure administrator or architect, you are sometimes asked the question: “How can we safely deploy internal business applications to Azure App Services?” These applications characteristically are: Not accessible...
What is Azure Active Directory? A Complete Overview
Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is Microsoft’s enterprise cloud-based identity and access management (IAM) solution. Azure AD is the backbone of the Office 365 system, and it can sync with...
Active Directory Account Lockout: Tools and Diagnosis Guide
Account lockouts are a headache for system administrators, and they happen a lot in Active Directory (AD). Research shows that account lockouts are the biggest single source of calls to...
Active Directory Resource Center
Active Directory is the foundation for a majority of enterprise networks, and cybersecurity professionals need to have a solid understanding of it to protect and secure sensitive data. Most any...
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) Guide: Understanding WMI Attacks
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) is a subsystem of PowerShell that gives admins access to powerful system monitoring tools. Though this system has been designed to allow for fast, efficient system...
How to Run an Active Directory Audit Using Varonis
Active Directory (AD) holds the keys to the kingdom, and attackers know all the tricks to take advantage of vulnerabilities in AD to stay hidden and move around the network...
Active Directory Has a Privacy Problem
Back when I was pen testing with the wonderful PowerView, I was using it to pull user information from Active Directory. At the time I was more interested in gathering...
Azure Active Directory: Best Practices and Tutorials
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...
AWS vs Azure vs Google: Cloud Services Comparison
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...
Should You Follow Microsoft’s Guidance to Stop Expiring Passwords?
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,...