Following ransomware attacks on two French hospitals late last month, French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to invest €1 billion in a national cybersecurity strategy.
The hospital at Dax and Villefranche-sur-Saône were the two hospitals hit by a file-encrypting malware that blocked the telephone systems. This severely affected the patient care provided by both the hospitals. The…
Following the SolarWinds Orion-based software attack, Microsoft last month recommended security measures for IT pros to consider.
Microsoft has been compiling a list of tips to identify such attacks at its Microsoft Security Response Center’s Solorigate page.
The articles on security recommendations were mostly written by Alex Weinert, director of identity security at Microsoft.
Active Directory Group Policy in a Nutshell
March 2, 2021
What you will learn:
Managing an Active Directory (AD) network can become a little cumbersome once the number of resources in the network becomes larger. There is a myriad of things that need to be controlled such as security permissions, software installation, desktop settings for users and computers, administrator privileges, and many more. Group Policies make managing all these settings…
Introduction
Group Policy includes policy settings that affect both users and computers. The settings under Computer Configuration control how the computer is configured. The settings under User Configuration control the user’s log-on session. Settings configured for a computer are processed first when the computer starts, followed by the user configuration settings when the user logs…
Active Directory Group Policy
March 2, 2021
Introduction- What is Group Policy?
Group Policy is a security tool built into Microsoft Active Directory that gives network administrators access to a variety of advanced settings. Administrators can set up and manage user settings, operating systems, and applications from a single platform. Group Policies help strengthen the security of users and computers and guard against both insider…
Active Directory Policies
March 2, 2021
The time and cost spent to organize, control, and maintain the IT infrastructure of an organization are very high. It is the IT administrator’s job to ensure that the employees of the organization have the latest software, adequate security settings, availability of files and folders, uniform desktop appearance in whichever machine they log on to, etc. It’s a tedious job, to say the…
Creating objects in Active Directory
March 1, 2021
What are Active Directory Objects?
Active Directory (AD), Microsoft’s proprietary directory service for Windows Server, allows administrators to control permissions and network resource access. In AD, data is stored as objects. An object is a fundamental unit of data and is typically defined as a resource, such as printers or computers, or a security principle, such as…
What you’ll learn:
Active Directory authentication and authorization are security processes. These processes are necessary in any environment so that the resources of an environment are not misused by anyone. In this article, we will take a look at what is authentication and authorization in an AD environment, and how AD tackles these process. Before going further, let’s take a look…
Active Directory Objects List
March 1, 2021
What are objects in Active Directory?
Objects in Active Directory (AD) are entities that represent resources that are present in the AD network. These resources can be users, computers, printers, contact persons who may be vendors for the organization, and more. AD objects are characterized by a set of information. Each piece of information is called an AD object attribute. For example, a user…
