3 Ways Your Permissions Are in Worse Shape Than You Think
IT is really busy these days. In fact, IT’s been busy for as long as you can remember. Security issues today alone could keep you busy full-time, but there’s just not enough time in the day. Strategic initiatives and fires seem to take precedent daily, pushing some of the more necessary, but rudimentary, parts of … Read more 3 Ways Your Permissions Are in Worse Shape Than You Think
How to Create a Security Group in Active Directory
Active Directory (AD) is a battle-tested software many company administrators use as a standard remedy for concerns about outsider access to data. But within AD, there are many types of security protocols to choose from. What if I don’t want to enable email access to my users, but instead I want my users to securely … Read more How to Create a Security Group in Active Directory
What Is an Intrusion Detection System? Latest Types and Tools
Keeping your network safe from intrusion is one of the most vital parts of system and network administration and security. If your network is penetrated by a malicious attacker, it can lead to massive losses for your company, including potential downtime, data breaches, and loss of customer trust. An intrusion detection system (IDS) is a … Read more What Is an Intrusion Detection System? Latest Types and Tools
Best Software Updater
It can be hard to keep on top of all the software on your computer, especially if every time you open a program it tells you it needs updating. Luckily, you can install a software updater to manage this process for you. The importance of software updaters is twofold: first, they make sure you’re using … Read more Best Software Updater
The Worst DNS Attacks
The Domain Name System (DNS) vies with the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) for the title of “Achilles heel of the internet.” If you want to take down large swathes of the internet in a single event, DNS and/or BGP are how you’d go about it. Over the past few decades, there have been innumerable security … Read more The Worst DNS Attacks
Security Logging Best Practices for Retention and Monitoring
A security log keeps a digital record of all your server activity and can provide an IT security admin a centralized view to better log and track who has made what changes, as well as if there are any issues with the data. A security log can be crucial to your company. For some, a … Read more Security Logging Best Practices for Retention and Monitoring
DNS Over HTTPS: Why, How, When, and What Is It, Exactly?
DNS, the old standby of name resolution protocols, has been with us for a long time and will be for a long time to come. But like any “old standby” protocol, DNS has some imperfections. Like many early internet protocols, DNS was designed with an almost total lack of security. Finding an IP address via … Read more DNS Over HTTPS: Why, How, When, and What Is It, Exactly?
How to Stop, Prevent, and Protect Yourself from a DDoS Attack
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are increasingly becoming a problem for global companies that have a significant portion of their business online. Knowing how to stop a DDoS attack is vitally important, especially considering that it can cost a business significantly in lost revenue. This might mean employing protection tools — my personal pick is Security … Read more How to Stop, Prevent, and Protect Yourself from a DDoS Attack
Introduction to SAP: Everything Beginners Need to Know about SAP Security
SAP security is a technical module that works within SAP systems to allow access where it’s needed and prevent access where it’s not. Establishing good internal security and access processes is a vital part of helping ensure your SAP system is protected and will function well. Protecting against external threats is important, but internal threats … Read more Introduction to SAP: Everything Beginners Need to Know about SAP Security
Exploring the Use of DNS in Multi-Cloud Environments
The multi-cloud approach to modern IT means workloads—whether virtual machines, containers, or minimal applications—can be located on any one of multiple independent infrastructures; whether running simultaneously for fault-tolerance or when being moved between these. In a modern IT deployment, workloads can (and will) regularly move between cloud and onsite deployments, whether for price, maintenance, latency, or … Read more Exploring the Use of DNS in Multi-Cloud Environments