Tag: Group Policy audit

There are tradeoffs to everything. In a Windows environment, users want fast logons/startups and a consistent experience across multiple devices. An efficient logon is often related to ease of use. For example, Folder Redirection and Group Policy Printer Preferences provide more unified end user...

Active Directory (AD) is a primary target for hackers as it provides a way to get access sensitive company data. Here are four considerations for establishing a secure administration model for Active Directory. 1. Remove excess domain administrator privileges Domain and enterprise administrator...

The NSA released a PDF entitled "Spotting the Adversary with Windows Event Log Monitoring" earlier this year. While there's a bit of irony in this, given the whole Snowden story that followed the release of this document, the PDF is still chock full of great information on what to watch for in an...

Because IT security breaches have become so prevalent, the common model for addressing them is often more reactive than proactive. Have you given up and given in to the idea that breaches are inevitable? Money, time and effort is put into establishing incident response teams, but often preventative...

Ask an IT manager to tell you who made what changes to system configurations in their IT infrastructure and it will often involve a time-consuming manual process of trawling through a disparate array of native audit logs from servers and network equipment. Despite being slow and insecure this...