In my first and second blog posts in this series, I explained how limiting the power of user and admin accounts by controlling permissions and GPOs reduces the usefulness of those accounts to attacker...
In my previous blog post, I explored the first step in mitigating the insider threat — understanding and controlling privilege across the environment — and reviewed how Quest Enterprise Reporter Suite...
What images does the phrase “insider threat” conjure up in your mind? A disgruntled admin actively sabotaging your systems just before penning a resignation letter? A highly privileged contractor inst...
The threat landscape has changed dramatically in the past few years. While IT pros certainly still have to worry about hardware failures, natural disasters, and attackers looking to steal data or encrypt it for ransom, there’s a highly alarming recent...
Extra... extra… read all about it! Data Breaches are the New Reality! Are you Prepared? It's no surprise (yet frightening) that there is a drastic increase in news headlines that emphasize the securi...
You made it! Here’s the fifth and final post in this series on lessons learned from 2018, all of which are based on a webcast I hosted with Microsoft MVP and Windows security expert Randy Franklin Smi...
Welcome back to my series of blog posts on the key cybersecurity lessons we need to take to heart from 2018. The posts draw from a webcast I hosted with Microsoft MVP and Windows security expert Randy...
In this series of posts, I’m reviewing some of the key cybersecurity lessons we should take away from 2018. I covered them in a webcast that I did with Microsoft MVP and Windows security expert Randy ...
Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts in which we’ll review some of the big threat headlines from 2018 and see what we can learn to prepare for 2019. It’s all based on a webcast that I did wi...
In my previous blog post, I talked about different approaches you can take to identify insider threats in your Windows environment with user behavior analytics — a rule-based vs. pattern-based approac...
Check out our recent webcast entitled, Preparing for the Disgruntled Privileged User — Three Ways They Can Hose Your Environment in Minutes with Brian Hymer, Strategic Systems Consultant and windows s...
Cyber security threats from external attackers are a constant worry for all organizations, as evidence by the many recent, headline-grabbing Ransomware data breaches such as WannaCry, Petya, Bad Rabbi...
