Active Directory Security Measures for U.S. State and Local Government and Education
[Editor’s note: This article is a guest post by TAG CEO and founder Ed Amoroso.] Broad cybersecurity support encompasses a wide variety of obligations, ranging from compliance documentation to user training. But the most challenging—and essential—aspect of Microsoft Active Directory (AD) security involves the detection of attacks, before, during, and ... Read More
The Role of Active Directory in U.S. Public Sector Cybersecurity
[Editor’s note: This article is a guest post by TAG CEO and founder Ed Amoroso.] Any observer of public sector cybersecurity will recognize the serious challenges in information technology (IT) protections for U.S. public sector agencies over the past few decades. Major incidents, such as the 2015 data breach at ... Read More
Defending Hybrid Identity Environments Against Cyberattacks
As the world continues to embrace digital transformation and distributed work, businesses will continue to deploy SaaS apps—while continuing to use on-premises tools. Hybrid ecosystems are becoming increasingly common as a result. Unfortunately, current identity and access management (IAM) practices simply aren’t up to the task of managing them. The ... Read More
[Webinar Recap] The Need for End-to-End Cryptography Management – Keyfactor
I had the wonderful opportunity to participate in a webinar last week with my friend and colleague Ted Shorter from Keyfactor. The topic of the session was the need for end-to-end cryptography lifecycle management in enterprise – and the discussion left a distinct impression on me. I’d like to take ... Read More
Toughen Up Your AD
Request for Comments (RFC) 1823 from August 1995 introduced the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Application Programming Interface (API). One could argue that this important work served as the foundation for modern identity management. And yet, surprisingly, the word identity does not appear even once in the entire RFC. (The ... Read More
