Cyber Security and Network Administration

The Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) Model dates back to 1984, and was the first introduction of a cross-vendor standard method of network communications. Before that, every vendor had their own ways of shifting data, and troubleshooting was complicated. With the introduction of layers, errors could…

Tackling roaming devices in an enterprise environment can be challenging. Ensuring clients can move between access points seamlessly requires careful planning and management of signal strengths and channels. Devices can be stubborn, refusing to give up a connection to a weak AP even if there…

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…