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Multi factor authentication is absolutely crucial to protecting accounts, but let's not forget the first line of defence, the password. Attackers have been cracking passwords since the dawn of, well, passwords. There are various methods (see here) and therefore various controls. The easiest and most…

I’ve been thinking a lot about AI this week, trying to find it’s place in content creation. I make no secret of the fact I use it a lot, and it has increased my productivity hugely. It’s also proved incredibly powerful as a learning device,…

Entra ID is the home of Microsoft identities for an organisation, but often these identities come from an on-prem Active Directory. That syncronisation is often a one-way street; accounts go up to the cloud, but changes don’t come back. Entra Password Protection enabled policies set…

The firewall sits at the pinnacle of enterprise networks, deciding what traffic is allowed in and out according to the defined rules. Some firewall appliances are objectively better than others in terms of how much traffic they can cope with, how fast they process it…

Attackers aren’t targeting networks anymore, they’re targeting identities. These attacks have been going on for years, but the amount of damage an attacker can do from a single compromised account has grown exponentially since the dawn of technologies such as single sign on. That’s not…