Creating users manually through Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is fine when you’ve got just a few. But what if you’re tasked with adding hundreds—or even thousands—of new accounts? Using the GUI just won’t cut it. In this guide, I’ll show you how to automate the process by importing user data from a CSV […]
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In enterprise environments, it’s often necessary for users in one Active Directory (AD) forest to access resources in another. This is where trust relationships come into play. These trusts are commonly used during mergers, acquisitions, or cross-organization integrations. This guide walks you through setting up a two-way trust relationship between two separate forests—contoso.loc and test.loc.
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Relying on a single Domain Controller (DC) in your Active Directory environment is risky. If that one server goes down, no users can log in, and critical services depending on authentication will stop working. To avoid this single point of failure, best practice is to deploy at least two Domain Controllers per domain. In this
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Here’s a riddle: What happens up to 2 billion times a day in the US and causes victims immense financial losses? Smishing attacks. An ongoing study managed by Robokiller shows that Americans received 2.3 billion scam texts per day in December of 2022. The scams are working too. According to Robokiller’s most recent mid-year study, Americans lost an
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QR codes have become ubiquitous in our daily lives, appearing on flyers, restaurant menus, product packaging, and business cards, but do users too readily assume they are always safe to scan? With the prevalence of QR codes, comes an increased concern around QR code scams– a topic that is not covered as frequently as it should
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First introduced in 2000, SEC Regulation S-P now considers the massive changes that information technology and information security have undergone in the last 24 years. This article will explain what has changed, the impact on your business, and what we can learn from these changes. Why has the SEC updated now? SEC regulation S-P has
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It might be impossible to not know of ChatGPT by now, especially if you’re involved in the tech world in any capacity. The AI has more than 100 million users, and Open AI’s website now garners more than a billion visits each month on average. The possibilities behind such a groundbreaking tool have been widely discussed, and countless news
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The cybersecurity world moves so quickly that it can be hard to keep up. But with new technology arriving and improving every day, it’s worth taking a few minutes to anticipate what sorts of cybersecurity trends are emerging in 2024—both in terms of potential threats as well as new tools to help combat and even
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Monster Mutual Cyber Insurance: It’s Your Funeral Bro It’s a crisp fall morning. You’re walking out to your car with a spring in your step, and a smile on your face. It’s almost the weekend during football season, and you’ve managed to get up early enough to go get a Pumpkin Spice Latte before work.
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There’s no question about it: cloud computing offers a lot of value to modern businesses. Unprecedented flexibility, unlimited scalability, and never-before-seen collaborative capabilities are just a few. However, despite strategically worded marketing materials from many providers, these solutions are not inherently more secure than their on-premise counterparts. It is a common misconception across all kinds of industries:
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