If you’re like most IT professionals, you don’t bother to update an Active Directory group’s membership. What’s the big deal? You may have read our articles about the realities of IT not focusing on groups or about the importance of putting some basic management in place — or better yet, a full group management lifecycle…
According to the 2015 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, approximately 85% of data breaches are performed by an external threat actor, with approximately 45% of those breaches focusing on credentials. This makes sense. Without proper credentials, the threat actor won’t be able to access the target data they want. Most threat actors gain entry by…
When’s the last time you actually managed your Active Directory groups? Be honest. We’re not talking about that last time you added someone to a group. We’re talking about the last time you actually did some homework to ensure that the group had the right members, that the permissions were assigned correctly, etc. It’s probably…
Group management in Active Directory is so much more than just making sure that memberships are correct. There’s an entire lifecycle process devoted to improving the management of groups — and the security they represent. But for many of you, there simply isn’t enough time (yet) to devote to implementing an entire group lifecycle. So,…
While they’ve been around for decades, in recent years we’ve all been introduced to squatters — people who move into an empty house that isn’t theirs and then take full advantage of the benefits of having a place to stay. They obtain utilities, setup mail delivery, maybe even meet the neighbors — all the while…
We are all well aware of the theory that every person is separated from everyone else by only six people. In fact, one 2013 study showed that this separation was just a little over 3.5 people. Although not as widely recognized, there is also a degree of separation between the people in IT who establish…