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By Jonathan Blackwell
Microsoft Active Directory is a directory service for Windows domain networks. Active Directory serves as a centralized database which stores information about network resources, including users, computers, and services. It plays a significant role in network management and security, providing a framework for user authentication, authorization, resource management, and policy enforcement. This allows organizations to manage permissions and access rights across the entire network efficiently.
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By Dirk Schrader
Imagine leaving your car key at a public place, only to drop your keys when exiting the vehicle. Someone picks them up and drives away. They speed through a school zone and are caught on camera. Later, the car is used in a robbery. Now, you’re not only missing your car but also wrongly implicated in criminal activities.
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By Jonathan Blackwell
In Windows system administration, one of the more advanced yet important tasks that can be accomplished using PowerShell is deleting registry keys and values. This operation requires careful handling to avoid unintended consequences. Registry keys and values in Windows are critical components that store configuration settings for the operating system and installed applications. Modifying the registry can lead to system instability or even failure if not done correctly.
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By Jonathan Blackwell
The primary purpose of a network is to enable sharing of resources among a group of users. Whether those resources are computing devices, applications or file data, the goal is to provide access to exactly those who need it. However, achieving this goal can be challenging because modern organizations are highly dynamic. On any given day, new employees may be hired, others may take on more or different responsibilities, and some leave the company.
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By Dirk Schrader
Your network is comprised of devices and users, and both require proper management. For a user to access a device and its hosted assets, that user requires a user account that has access to the computer. The allocation and management of these accounts are important for multiple reasons including security, personalization and accountability.
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By Kent Tuominen
SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language) and OAuth (Open Authorization) are two of the most common user authentication and authorization protocols. Both of them help manage identity and access using tokens, but they serve different purposes and operate in different contexts. This blog explains the key similarities and differences between SAML and OAuth and the specific use cases where they are most commonly employed.
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By Dirk Schrader
Just like human users, computer programs also need access to resources on a network to function properly. There’s a difference in how these two groups—individuals and programs—access these resources, though. While humans utilize user accounts, computer programs use Active Directory service accounts.
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By Jonathan Blackwell
You may want to know the PowerShell version installed on your machine. While novice users may go to Programs in the Control Panel to check the PowerShell version, it’s often quite the disappointment when they don’t find PowerShell listed as a program there. Instead, you’ll need to resort to other methods to find the PowerShell version. This article provides a comprehensive guide to checking the PowerShell version you’re running.
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By Jonathan Blackwell
As a routine task, users move items, such as files and folders from one place to another on our computer, so that data is sorted and makes sense. While this can be accomplished with simple copy and paste options from within the File Explorer, advanced users may prefer PowerShell for efficiency and precision. The Move-Item cmdlet in PowerShell moves an item from one location to another in the File Explorer, with its properties, contents, and child items intact.
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By Mark Techa
Think of a port as a virtual gateway that a specific service, process, or application on your computer uses for network communication. Each port is assigned a unique number, allowing different types of traffic to be directed to the appropriate software. For example, your email might use one port, while your web browsing uses another. When combined with an IP address, a port number creates a complete socket address, enabling precise routing of data to and from your computer across the network.
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By Netwrix
Netwrix Threat Manager (formerly StealthDEFEND) helps protect your hybrid Active Directory and data by catching even highly sophisticated attacks in their early stages, responding automatically, and quickly getting the full insight required to recover and strengthen your defenses.
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By Netwrix
In today's hybrid work environment, users need to access their desktops, laptops and other devices at the office, at home, while traveling, through kiosks and virtually. But many organizations are struggling to manage and secure their IT ecosystem because not all Windows endpoint management software systems were designed for modern distributed scenarios. Netwrix PolicyPak enables you to solve your endpoint management and endpoint protection challenges wherever users get work done, modernizing and extending the power of your existing enterprise technology assets.
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By Netwrix
Netwrix GroupID automates and delegates group and user management to ensure your directories remain current, empowering you to enhance security while increasing IT productivity.
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By Netwrix
78% of healthcare organizations experienced a cyberattack in the past year, exposing millions of patients' sensitive data. With patient records selling 10x more than other data on the dark web, threat actors are relentlessly targeting healthcare. To learn more on how you can Protect your institute - watch this video. Netwrix GroupID automates and delegates group and user management, necessary for Healthcare organizations, ensuring your directories remain current and empower you to enhance security while increasing IT productivity.
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By Netwrix
Naming conventions for Active Directory and Azure AD groups can be confusing. This video explains how to create clear and consistent group names using prefixes, descriptions, and approval workflows. By following these best practices, you can make it easier for users to understand the purpose of each group and avoid confusion. Integrate #NetwrixGroupID with your #ActiveDirectory or #AzureAD to appropriately identify all your directory groups. You can define policies for adding prefixes to group names, standardize them and build a template as well.
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By Netwrix
In #ActiveDirectory, companies use #DistributionGroups and #SecurityGroups to manage their users. With #DistributionLists, emails are sent in groups while #SecurityGroups manage access rights. The difference between the two group types allows extensive management of resources. Is creating #DistributionGroups equally important as security groups? Why do you need distribution lists if you can mail enable security groups? Watch this video to find out!
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By Netwrix
Netwrix Threat Manager (formerly StealthDEFEND) helps protect your Active Directory and data by catching even highly sophisticated attacks in their early stages, responding automatically, and quickly getting the full insight required to recover and strengthen your defenses.
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By Netwrix
Netwrix Enterprise Auditor (formerly StealthAUDIT) can help you minimize your attack surface area by discovering all the sensitive information you hold and keep access to it at the least-privilege level — while dramatically reducing the burden on your limited IT resources. Learn more at netwrix.com/enterprise-auditor Modern organizations have amassed enormous volumes of data, and more is created and collected every day. Meanwhile, cyberattacks are growing in frequency and sophistication, and compliance mandates are ever more stringent.
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By Netwrix
Netwrix Password Secure is a comprehensive password management solution that empowers users to securely store, generate, and share passwords while offering various authentication methods for enhanced security. With robust end-to-end encryption and customizable policies, it ensures organizations can strengthen their password security and compliance measures. Learn more at netwrix.com/vault.
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By Netwrix
Minimize your attack surface by eliminating the need for standing privilege altogether. Reduce the risk of business disruptions or compliance failures by managing and tracking all privileged activity in one place. Every day, organizations face the threat of cyberattacks that target privileged accounts. In fact, a staggering 74% of data breaches start with compromised privileged accounts and credentials. Is your organization prepared to defend against these attacks?
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By Netwrix
If you are just getting started with Office 365 or you want to master its administration, this guide is for you. The beginning features very easy tasks, including provisioning and de-provisioning of Office 365 user accounts. Then it offers guidelines on managing licenses and explains how to administer different applications using both the Office 365 admin console and PowerShell. Last, this Office 365 tutorial (.pdf) provides more advanced guidance, helping you set up a hybrid environment, secure your cloud-based email application with encryption and spam filtering, and more. After reading this guide, you'll also know how to troubleshoot Office 365 issues, ensuring a seamless experience for your business users.
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By Netwrix
Cybersecurity practitioners worldwide use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to strengthen their security program and improve their risk management and compliance processes. The framework is voluntary, but it offers proven best practices that are applicable to nearly any organisation. However, it can seem daunting at first because it includes so many components.
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By Netwrix
The simplest definition of Active Directory is that it is a directory service for Windows operating systems. But what does this actually mean? What is Active Directory used for? How can you manage it? Whether you are a new system administrator who wants to learn Active Directory basics, such as its structure, services, components and essential terminology, or a seasoned administrator looking to find new best practices and improve your skills even further, this eBook has something for you.
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By Netwrix
If you are just getting started with Office 365 or you want to master its administration, this guide is for you. The beginning features very easy tasks, including provisioning and de-provisioning of Office 365 user accounts. Then it offers guidelines on managing licenses and explains how to administer different applications using both the Office 365 admin console and PowerShell. Last, this Office 365 tutorial (.pdf) provides more advanced guidance, helping you set up a hybrid environment, secure your cloud-based email application with encryption and spam filtering, and more. After reading this guide, you'll also know how to troubleshoot Office 365 issues, ensuring a seamless experience for your business users.
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By Netwrix
Safeguarding business-critical and regulated data like customer records, financial information and intellectual property is critical to the success of the entire organization. However, your goal should not be to build a fortress. Rather accept that your network will inevitably be breached from the outside and attacked from within, so you should build a layered defense strategy that helps you both minimize your attack surface and spot suspicious behavior in time to respond effectively.
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By Netwrix
Although most IT pros are aware of the benefits that technology integrations promise, many of them are reluctant to take on integration projects. They know all too well that many vendor products simply aren't designed to be integrated with other systems; the lack of an application programming interface in particular is a huge red flag. Fortunately, there are vendors, such as ServiceNow and Netwrix, that enable organizations to reap the benefits of integration without having to invest lots of time and money.
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By Netwrix
In today's digital world, the problem of data theft by departing employees goes far beyond stealing the names of a few customers or a product design sketch; it can mean the loss of gigabytes of critical corporate intelligence and legally protected information like customer cardholder data. Plus, ex-employees have even more avenues for using the data they steal - they can use it against their former employers, leak it to competitors, sell it to the highest bidder or simply publish it on the internet.
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By Netwrix
Compliance regulations are designed to provide a unified set of rules or guidelines to help IT organizations implement policies and measures that deliver the required levels of integrity, security, availability and accountability of data and operations. This white paper provides an overview of various types of IT compliance, explores their basic concepts and commonalities, and offers guidelines for implementation.
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By Netwrix
It's hard to imagine an organization today that does not rely on file servers, SharePoint or Office 365 for storing data, including valuable and sensitive information such as intellectual property and personal data. This makes these systems particularly attractive targets for all sort of attackers, from external hackers to disgruntled employees. To protect data from both external and internal threats, businesses must regularly conduct thorough data security assessments as part of their broader cyber security assessments.
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Data Security Done Right:
- Consistency in the Approach. Confidence in the Results. Ensure your cybersecurity efforts are laser-focused on truly important data, instead of false positives that do not require protection. Our unified platform identifies and classifies your sensitive, regulated or mission-critical information consistently and accurately — including both structured and unstructured data, whether it’s on premises or in the cloud.
- Reduce Risk. Prevent Breaches. Do you know if the sensitive data you store is overexposed? Who can access it? What activity is going on around it? Netwrix solutions help you answer these key questions and ensure that risk-appropriate security controls are implemented around your most critical data. Plus, the platform enables you to detect abnormal activity early and respond before a threat turns into a breach.
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