Security

Successful, effective auditing is essential for the compliance and security of your network, but the complexity of Active Directory (AD) can present a roadblock. Find out what you need to ask when evaluating AD monitoring tools.

In today’s Ask the Admin, I’ll show you how to set up two-factor authentication for Microsoft Accounts which is an excellent way to secure your account.

Secure your Skype account by merging it with a Microsoft Account.

Microsoft announced that it will fix a dangerous new zero-day security flaw in Windows that it says is being exploited by hackers in Russia. But Microsoft is also understandably outraged that Google inexplicably outed the flaw before a patch was ready.

Windows has an unfixable security flaw. That’s the frightening conclusion of this researcher, who says he can inject code—at will—into browsers and other Windows apps. It affects all versions of Windows released in the past 16 years, he says. And it can’t be patched, without breaking legitimate desktop apps. It could be bad for containerized server workloads, too…

  One of the worst nightmares for the IT professional is coming into the office in the morning and finding that your critical servers have been hijacked with ransomware. Business immediately grinds to a halt, and you need to have unpleasant meetings with management about how this happened and — more importantly — what you…

Microsoft’s fight to keep its European customers’ data private is back in the news. The U.S. Justice Department wants a court to revisit a ruling preventing the government from reading email stored in an Irish data center. Not only is the data stored outside the U.S., but the owner of the data isn’t a U.S….

Learn how to enable two-factor authentication on a Microsoft Account with the help of Microsoft’s Authenticator mobile app.

[Sponsored] With the increasing sophistication of hackers, and the rising black market price of sensitive data IT has a huge target on its back which means a SIEM solutions are critical.

Microsoft Azure and Office 365 hosted in the UK for the first time. Redmond just opened up three new data centers in England and Wales, arranged in two Azure regions. This brings the number of Regions to 28 globally. Among the launch customers are Aston Martin, a regional health authority, and the Ministry of Defence [sic]. This should give a boost to Microsoft’s data-sovereignty story…