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If you don’t need it, get rid of it. If it’s sensitive, make sure sure it’s in the right place, and only accessible to those who need it. Old files...

Our malware protection guide covers malicious software, utilizing the outlined controls and best practices to achieve a higher level of security.

Domain controllers are common targets of attackers. Learn how to protect and secure your domain controllers to prevent data breaches.

Before we delve into Restricted Groups, I thought it might be worthwhile to take a closer look at how hackers take advantage of Administrator passwords. For Pass-the-Hash fans, this post...

If there is one very important but under-appreciated point to make about complying with tough data security regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it’s the importance of finding...

GDPR Patterns Preview We’re less than a year out from EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) becoming law, and hearing that our customers are facing more pressure than ever to...

This article is a text version of a lesson from our PowerShell and Active Directory Essentials video course (use code ‘blog’ for free access). The course has proven to be...

Ever consider document properties like “Company,” “Title,” and “Comments” a vehicle for a malicious payload? Checkout this nifty PowerShell payload in the company metadata: #powershell payload stored in office metadataDocument...

In writing about hackers and their techniques, the issue of Windows local Administrator accounts often comes up. Prior to Windows 7, the Administrator account was created by default with no...

For over the last 10 years, security operations centers and analysts have been trading indicators of compromise (IoC), signatures or threshold-based signs of intrusion or attempted intrusion, to try to...

To get into the spirit of this post, you should probably skim through the first few slides of this presentation by Daniel Bohannon and Le Holmes given at Black Hat...

This article is a text version of a lesson from our PowerShell and Active Directory Essentials video course (use code ‘blog’ for free access). The course has proven to be...