A simple traffic light report, produced by one of our Office 365 Consultants, looking into your configuration to highlight if there are any areas of concern and to give you an increase comfort level that you have a good security posture
Protecting Office 365 identities on a shoestring
We hear about identity theft and protection all the time in IT. For Office 365 there are number of things you can do to help protect your organisation The flagship approach from Microsoft is Microsoft 365, which is a suite of products that together work in harmony. However harmony and simplicity does cost… Microsoft 365 […]
Windows Server 2016: Access Denied for Admin Shares
We recently had an issue that started of with a problem promoting some domain controllers in Azure. We’d set up the site to site VPN and wanted to stretch the Forest into Azure. It seemed like a simple plan… Problems arose when we promoted the domain controller with errors such as System log: Can’t process […]
Summarizing GDPR
You may well have heard about GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations) but do you know what it means for you? The detailed information is found on the ICO website, but let’s summarize it for you Does GDPR apply to me? That broadly depends on the question “Do you hold or process ‘personal’ or ‘sensitive’ information […]
Introducing a new product Microsoft 365
At Inspire there was the announcement of a new product ‘Microsoft 365’. At the enterprise level this replaces ‘Secure Productive Enterprise’ which has been available in E3 and E5 SKUs. Microsoft 365 includes Office 365, Enterprise Mobility and Security as well as Windows 10 Enterprise. So not much new so far aside from a new […]
Windows Firewall not writing to its logfiles
As part of Group Policy Management guidelines from the Centre of Internet Security (CIS), the recommendation is to turn on Firewall logging on all Windows Servers, and to save each profile to their own log file. Configuring this in Group Policy is pretty straight forward. Just type in the new file name for each profile, […]
Week 5 – Advanced Windows Security Course
Firstly apologies for taking this long to get back to doing the week 5 blog. It has been a manic couple of months and it doesn’t look like it is going to let up either! Anyway, so far we have covered Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 – Platform Security and Internals Attacks on Credentials & Prevention […]
Week 4 – Advanced Windows Security Course
Happy New Year to you all, 2017 is here! I’m spending the first week of 2017 catching up on the 4th week of course work… So far we have covered Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 – Platform Security and Internals Attacks on Credentials & Prevention Solutions Attacking & Securing Windows Network Handling Ransomware & Other Malicious […]
Week 3 – Advanced Windows Security Course
Wow the first two weeks have whizzed on by, in fact together with my normal workload I’m struggling to keep up with the pace! So far we have covered Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 – Platform Security and Internals Attacks on Credentials & Prevention Solutions Attacking & Securing Windows Network Handling Ransomware & Other Malicious Software […]
Week 2 – Advanced Windows Security Course
Week 1 is behind us and we covered some great material! It has already been a real eye opener to see how easy it is to gain access to a machine and extract information from it. Last week we covered Windows 10/Windows Server 2016 – Platform Security and Internals Attacks on Credentials & Prevention Solutions […]
Week 1 – Advanced Windows Security Course
This week marks the start of a course I am attending called ‘Advanced Windows Security Course for 2017‘ run by Paula Januszkiewicz from CQURE. I am looking forward to seeing this course progress and discover various tips and tricks to break into operating systems and how to prevent those vulnerabilities So who are CQURE? CQURE […]