GitHub Security 101: Best Practices for Securing Your Repository https://ift.tt/jPEmIOs In 1998, Christine Peterson coined the term "open-source software." She explained that "it was a deliberate effort to make this field of endeavor more understandable to newcomers and to business". This was also the year for the first “Open Source Summit” organized by O’Reilly. Open-source […]
Docker Use Cases: 15 Most Common Ways to Use Docker https://ift.tt/laUriBC Containerizing applications instead of hosting them on virtual machines is a concept that has been trending in the last few years, making container management popular. Docker sits at the heart of this transition, helping organizations seamlessly adopt containerization technology. Recently, Docker use cases can […]
Cloudflare servers don’t own IPs anymore – so how do they connect to the Internet? https://ift.tt/6cZ1yBV A lot of Cloudflare’s technology is well documented. For example, how we handle traffic between the eyeballs (clients) and our servers has been discussed many times on this blog: “A brief primer on anycast (2011)”, "Load Balancing without Load […]
KnowledgeBase: You experience errors with Event ID 42 and source Kdcsvc on Domain Controllers https://ift.tt/8RwufAI To continually increase the information security of on-premises Domain Controllers, Microsoft provides new functionality to Windows Server and Active Directory. Sometimes, the new security measures affect backward compatibility. In this knowledgebase article, I’ll discuss such a measure. The situation You […]
Domain Controller Monitoring Checklist https://ift.tt/4Yl2Bkn Last month, I provided some context for how I feel about Active Directory Monitoring and Domain Controller Monitoring. I wrote that monitoring solutions should not treat Domain Controllers as mere ‘application servers’ or ‘nodes’, as many Active Directory Monitoring solutions, like SolarWinds’ do. However, organizations may have varying requirements towards […]
Domain Controller Monitoring Checklist https://ift.tt/4Yl2Bkn Last month, I provided some context for how I feel about Active Directory Monitoring and Domain Controller Monitoring. I wrote that monitoring solutions should not treat Domain Controllers as mere ‘application servers’ or ‘nodes’, as many Active Directory Monitoring solutions, like SolarWinds’ do. However, organizations may have varying requirements towards […]
Azure AD authentication for Windows Admin Center in Azure is now generally available https://ift.tt/cXPyEC2 We’re excited to announce support for authentication using Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), part of Microsoft Entra, with Windows Admin Center in Azure. Customers can now use Azure AD authentication with Windows Admin Center in Azure for both domain and […]
Top 5 vulnerability scanning tools for security teams https://ift.tt/ORvC2WT Vulnerability scanning tools enable organizations to search for and discover potential weaknesses within their environment. Such tools have changed since debuting about 30 years ago. In the beginning, there were two basic types of vulnerability scanners. One scanned the internal network to find hosts on the […]
Top passwords used in RDP brute-force attacks https://ift.tt/SmbAVQ5 Specops Software released a research analyzing the top passwords used in live attacks against Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) ports. This analysis coincides with the latest addition of over 34 million compromised passwords to the Specops Breached Password Protection Service, which now includes over 3 billion unique compromised […]
Basic Authentication Deprecation in Exchange Online – What’s Next https://ift.tt/4Y8IDHQ Last month we turned off Basic auth in Exchange Online for many customers. We’ve protected millions of users from the risks associated with using this legacy form of authentication to access their data. We want to thank you, too, for all the hard work you’ve […]
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