group policy
Active Directory Forest Recovery Introduces New OS Provisioning Tool
Even after more than 20 years of service, Active Directory (AD) remains one of the most critical components of the typical enterprise’s IT infrastructure. AD is easy for users to take for ...
Preventing a SYSVOL Horror Story
It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and an excellent time to bust the ghosts of configurations past. One of the actions that the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) ...
SIEM and SOAR—and Identity Security
Organizations are looking for cutting-edge technologies to facilitate increasing business demands. But as your organization grows, so does its attack surface. Understanding potential vulnerabilities—especially those related to Tier 0 identity assets like ...
Top Tips for Protecting Active Directory
Active Directory is one of the most important components of your network. Yet protecting Active Directory can be one of the most challenging tasks on your to-do list. The problem is that ...
Combatting a BlackCat Ransomware Active Directory Attack
The FBI has released FBI Flash CU-000167-MW warning that BlackCat/ALPHV ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) group has compromised at least 60 entities globally. As with the majority of cyberattacks, BlackCat/ALPHV’s end game is an Active ...
Understanding Group Policy Privilege Escalation in CVE-2020-1317
Last month, Microsoft released an advisory for CVE-2020-1317 which describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Group Policy. This was further detailed by the discoverer of the vulnerability on the Cyberark website. The ...
