Posts in: Security

I’m going to continue my recent look at securing your Office 365/Azure AD directory with a quick dive into using Conditional Access rules to protect your directory’s most prized asset - …

As the pace of attacks continues against companies who use online services, major IAM providers such as Microsoft and Okta are looking for ways to improve theirs and your security game.

I was …

I suspect most of you reading this article will already know this, but part of Microsoft’s Azure AD (AAD) / Office 365 Cloud directory service that you get when you pay for premium AAD is …

Introduction to Microsoft Mobile Device Management

I'm currently settling in to a new job where I'm spending a fair amount of time working with Microsoft's Mobile security management tools, mostly …

Introduction

So I think a lot of us take backups for granted. It's one of those things you look at once and then tend to not worry about too much. As long as its working, why worry?

Except… if …

Finally. Finishing up after Part 1 and Part 2, this is the end of my updated thoughts on an old Server Fault post with some final thoughts on reducing risks in the future.

Reducing the risk in the …

Following on from Part 1 of my revision of an old Server Fault post, we will continue on  to look at remediation after an intrusion.

(Part 3 available here)

Understand the problem fully:

  1. Do NOT put …

Introduction

In this series of posts I’m revisiting an answer to a question that appeared on Server Fault way back in 2011. I’m pleased to say that it’s been viewed over 100,000 …

One of the things that I’ve always been interested in is automation, and being able to reproduce a ‘known state’ reliably and consistently. This applies at work when building servers …

I’m currently reading /r/sysadmin on reddit at the moment, specifically this post from someone ranting that a user complain that “malware spam e-mail” went to their mail …