A passwordless future, we hear, awaits us all. Multi Factor Authentication, Biometrics and so on. But until that great day comes, we’re stuck with creating passwords with ever more elaborate combinations of keyboard letters, numbers and symbols. So we’re told. Of course passwords must be strong. Password theft has surged 45% in just the last …
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Why Active Directory Segregation is Crucial Here’s Part III in our ongoing series on keeping your systems ransomware free: Most organizations have an Active Directory for single sign-on for all their users. This makes perfect sense since most people want to use the same set of credentials everywhere. However, this causes some security problems. A …
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Set Up an Administrator Clean Room. It Air Gaps Your Devices and Your Staff. Ransomware needs no introduction. It’s become the worst nightmare for System Admins and CEOs in companies worldwide. This series of three posts offers tips and techniques to protect your organization from Ransomware and other hacking attempts. Let’s start with the most …
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Tips on Network Segregation In our first post, we discussed the big idea of Setting Up an Administrator Clean Room to separate all of your company’s security personnel and security-purposed devices from all of its non-security personnel and unsecured devices. This post shows how you can additionally secure your environment with network segregation. Most System …
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OK, so cloud costs are soaring, as the above graphic shows, and you’re annoyed as heck. Why? Among other things, the AWS/Azure cloud duopoly is hiking prices as high as the market will allow. (And these two behemoths account for 51% of all cloud spending.) In response, some companies are looking to reduce soaring cloud …
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