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Hidden Gems: The Azure Active Directory Whitepapers
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
It's pretty well accepted now that the world is moving away from painstakingly planned, piloted, deployed, and maintained on-premises applications in local data centers. It's moving to web services, hosted in the cloud (best definition: your stuff on someone else's computer) whose new capabilities are rapidly deployed and refined via…
SaaS Passwords Are Like Cockroaches
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
And in the case of passwords, each one - especially each forgotten one - is a little security risk scurrying around in the shadows. You may think you have gotten rid of them (or at least reduced them to a manageable amount), but they still keep popping up. And as…
8 Situations That Put Your Active Directory At Risk
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) has grown to be a marvelously reliable, highly scalable, and fault tolerant core component of your company’s IT infrastructure. It generally works quite well without requiring a lot of attention. But the AD DS admin must put in extra work to take the service…
Azure AD Connect: the staging server
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
Microsoft continues to work on a sore spot in its hybrid identity strategy: The challenge of deploying its identity bridge between Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) on premises and Azure Active Directory in the cloud. This bridge consists of AD FS for federation and a succession of utilities, culminating…
Why On-Premises Active Directory Still Matters in a Cloud-Connected World
- Sean Deuby | Principal Technologist
With all the talk about stampeding to the cloud, I get asked fairly regularly if I think Active Directory will be going away. No, AD isn't becoming obsolete; it's evolving. And as it evolves, I'd argue that it matters more than ever. Within Microsoft ISSD (Identity and Security Services Division),…
Vulnerability in Kerberos Allows Elevation of Privilege
- Sharon Vardi
Recently, Microsoft has released a security update (MS14-068) for Windows Server. The patched vulnerability is in the Windows Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC), which generates the session tickets to identities within Active Directory while accessing the Domain's resources. When clients request access to a resource, they contact the ticket-granting service…
