Michael Buckbee

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Zero-Day Vulnerability Explained

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

Find out how zero-day vulnerabilities become zero-day exploits and zero-day attacks, and how to defend your network from zero-day attacks and exploits.

Exchange Vulnerability: How to Detect Domain Admin Privilege Escalation

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

Researchers recently uncovered a vulnerability in Exchange that allows any domain user to obtain Domain admin privileges that allow them to compromise AD and connected hosts. Here’s how the attack...

Beyond Privacy and DSARs: Public Data Requests (FOI) Are the Law in 50 States

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

Happy 2020!  The New Year brings Californians under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). CA consumers can ask state-based companies for all relevant data, and to request that companies delete...

What the H**L Does Reasonable Data Security Really Mean?

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

For anyone who’s spent time looking at data security laws and regulations, you can’t help but come across the words “reasonable security”, or its close cousin “appropriate security”.  You can...

Post-Davos Thoughts on the EU NIS Directive

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

I’ve been meaning to read the 80-page report published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the global risks humankind now faces. They’re the same folks who bring you the once...

Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) Could Not Be Contacted [SOLVED]

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

Sometimes clients report an error “An Active Directory Domain Controller (AD DC) for the domain could not be contacted.” Read on to learn how to troubleshoot and resolve this issue.

Maximize your ROI: Maintaining a Least Privilege Model

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

TL;DR: Managing permissions can be expensive. For a 1,000 employee company, the overhead of permissions request tickets can cost up to $180K/year. Automating access control with DataPrivilege can save $105K/year...

Adventures in Fileless Malware: Closing Thoughts

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

I think we can all agree that hackers have a lot of tricks and techniques to sneakily enter your IT infrastructure and remain undetected while they steal the digital goodies....

Varonis Version 7 Highlights

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

Varonis Version 7 is now generally available – check out our latest 7.4 release and see some of the highlights of what’s new. 25 new widgets to manage and protect...

How To Use PowerShell for Privilege Escalation with Local Computer Accounts

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

Privilege escalation is when an attacker is able to exploit the current rights of an account to gain additional, unexpected access. While this can be caused by zero-day vulnerabilities, state-level...

GDPR: The Right to Be Forgotten and AI

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

One (of the many) confusing aspects of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is its “right to be forgotten”. It’s related to the right to erasure but takes in far...

NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation in Plain English

Michael Buckbee

Michael Buckbee

Learn about the new NYDFS cybersecurity regulation and the rules for basic principles of data security, documentation of security policies, and much more.

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