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Do you know your WAF from your WAAP? Or your RASP from your WAF? This week, Petri is hosting a webinar with Fortra, which looks at how to protect your web apps from advanced web attacks. Join myself and Fortra’s Josh Davies, an experienced senior security analyst, who will explain some advanced techniques attackers use…

When planning for an Azure Stack HCI environment, many organizations may struggle to decide if they should go for a large Azure Stack HCI cluster or plan for smaller, use-case-specific clusters. Today, I would like to detail the ups and downs of both solutions. To do that, I’ll be discussing the required initial investments, maintenance…

Microsoft has recently unveiled the Intune Microsoft Store repository integration, which is intended to replace the current Microsoft Store for Business integration with Intune and provide a more consumer-like experience for employees. Microsoft has also released the WinGet Windows Package Manager, which allows IT pros to manage apps and updates through the Microsoft Store repository…

Windows Local Administrator Password Solution (Windows LAPS) is a powerful tool that allows organizations to better manage and protect their local administrator account passwords on Windows devices. This feature is available on Azure Active Directory-joined or Windows Server Active Directory-joined devices. In this article, I will explain how to configure Windows LAPS in an Microsoft…

In relational databases like SQL Server, the SQL JOIN statement is used to query, connect and retrieve data from multiple tables based on data relationships between those tables. You can use the SQL JOIN statement with two or more tables, and it essentially returns records that have matching values in the different tables. In this…

If you’re an IT pro working with Active Directory, you can use Group Policy to configure the Windows environments of your users’ computers and your enterprise servers using Group Policy Objects (GPO). However, the struggle to reach an intuitive and secure environment is real. In this article, I will explain how to create a GPO,…

Group Policy is an infrastructure feature in Active Directory that allows IT pros to manage their users’ Windows environments and servers. In this article, I will explain in detail what is Group Policy, what is a Group Policy Object (GPO), and how to adjust the policy settings to meet your security needs and compliance requirements….

This article explains how Linux file permissions work, including how to change file permissions and file ownership using the chmod and chown commands.

AWS Amplify is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) application development framework that organizations can use to develop and deploy web and mobile applications. It’s an end-to-end solution for creating an app backend and a frontend UI in just a couple of hours. In this article, I will explain how AWS Amplify works and how it…

When you virtualize an Azure Stack HCI cluster, you may want to load balance applications running on it to optimize server utilization. While there are various built-in options to do that, they may be quite limited depending on your usage scenarios. In this article, I’ll discuss the various options you have to implement Azure Stack…