Active Directory

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...

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 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) 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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

All an attacker needs is time and motivation to infiltrate your network. It’s your job to make their efforts to break in and remain undetected as difficult as possible. First,...