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Month: March 2017

Create AD Users in Bulk and Email Their Credentials Using PowerShell

Every year, educational institutions enroll hundreds of students. As a result, the institutions’ system engineers require extra time and effort to create an AD account for each student and then to manually inform the students about their usernames and passwords. This step-by-step guide will make system engineers’ lives a little easier with the help of … Continued

Security Tip: Enable Azure AD Self-Service Password Reset

Helpdesk-assisted password resets can account for 20% of an organization’s IT budget, but in the past, required the use of third-party software for Active Directory that could be difficult to set up and maintain. In this article, I’ll show you how to enable self-service password resets for Azure AD users only. While it’s beyond the … Continued

3-Step Guide to Preventing Privilege Escalation

With last year out of the way, analysts have combed over Microsoft’s list of vulnerabilities. What should come as no surprise to anyone is that 94% of the security bulletins with a critical rating could have been mitigated by removing administrative privileges. 100% of the Internet Explorer/Microsoft Edge critical bulletins were mitigated by removing administrative … Continued

[Infographics] Is Cloud Secure for Healthcare?

Healthcare organizations face multiple pressure when it comes to data security: high customer expectations, critical internal policies, strict compliance regulations, and increased attention from hackers, since the interest to personally identifiable information is only growing. The cloud offers a host of benefits, but can it provide the level of security required by the sensitive nature … Continued

Top 5 Free Tools for Account Lockout Troubleshooting

How many account lockouts do you deal with every day? Troubleshooting account lockouts has always been an IT admin’s daily task: either employees forget their passwords or accounts lockout due to a significant increase in authentication requests on domain controllers. On top of that, account lockouts can also be a sign of the Conficker virus … Continued

IT Trick: View Azure AD Sign In Activity

Need to know who’s logging in to your cloud directory or Office 365? With this tip, I’ll show you where to find information about user sign in activity in the Azure management portal. Until recently, there was no single log view for sign in information in the Azure Active Directory (AAD). That changed in November … Continued

6 Rules to Improve Your PL/SQL Packages Security

Using PL/SQL code in your system has many advantages. However, it can be insecure if it isn’t done right. In this article, I’ve outlined a few practices you can follow to improve the security of your Oracle PL/SQL code. Use Packages Instead of Procedures or Functions The easiest way to implement PL/SQL code is to … Continued