Since 2012, Jonathan Blackwell, an engineer and innovator, has provided engineering leadership that has put GroupID at the forefront of group and user management for Active Directory and Azure AD environments. His experience in development, marketing, and sales allows Jonathan to fully understand the Identity market and how buyers think.
Was 2021 Better than 2020? 2020 was the year that changed us all. 2021 continued that change while people grasped for the beauty of normalcy in the midst of it all. For enterprise IT, one boogeyman persisted (cyber-attacks including ransomware). Another constant, hybrid environments and cloud iterations, is the ongoing struggle with lots of options.…
What is Enterprise Hybrid Cloud? When we talk about enterprise hybrid cloud, we refer to the combination of one or more public and private clouds (such as On-premise Active Directory ) or hybrid cloud to create a single solution for an organization’s computing data. In simpler words, a hybrid cloud infrastructure enables businesses to back-up…
What is Zero Trust Security? Zero Trust is a security model that is built on the hypothesis that threats exist both inside and outside your network, and therefore, aims to eliminate the concept of trust from an organization’s network architecture. Its implementation centers on strict access controls (without trusting anyone by default), which translates into…
Active Directory has become a popular pathway for ransomware attacks. Take a deep dive into the exploitation tactics for proactively implementing preventive measures and disrupting threat activity. Active Directory (AD) is an on-prem identity management product that holds a plethora of identity-related information. About 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies use Active Directory as a…
What are Active Directory Groups? Active Directory groups are methods for collecting users, contacts, computers, and even other groups’ objects within Active Directory so that you can manage the objects in the group as a single unit. Objects in Active Directory Groups Objects that belong to a particular group are referred to as group members.…
Let’s admit it! Active Directory health check is a challenge – no matter the company size. Symptoms of Poor Active Directory Health The first indication that your organization’s Active Directory isn’t healthy is when a flood of calls comes to the help desk indicating a potential crisis is brewing. Active Directory works okay even when…
Managing Active Directory groups is probably one of the simplest tasks you perform on a regular basis. It’s right up there with resetting a password. Because it takes little effort — and even less though — it can often be easily dismissed as a routine, unimportant task. Similarly, administrators must regularly clean up user accounts and objects…
More than half of the global workforce is working remotely and as the pandemic continues to threaten health, we are looking at a prolonged period of hybrid working – from home and office in different proportions. One year later… In March 2020, companies across the US abruptly shuttered their offices and instructed employees to work…
2020 will be remembered as the year that changed us all. Concepts such as lockdowns, mask mandates, and social distancing were unknown to most of us. Through all the uncertainty, 2020 had its positive moments as well. We were tested and pulled from many directions, yet when it mattered, we banded together and helped each other. We gave…
COVID-19 has disrupted the way many people around the world work. Instead of going into an office, attending a meeting, or shaking hands with a colleague, employees are online more than ever before. One of the biggest changes we have been witnessing amid all this, is the need of working together, in newer ways. Such a change has triggered the need for many employees to opt for collaboration tools for group governance, enabling them to stay connected, remotely. This will…