Cyber Security and Network Administration

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…

What a week, huh? I didn’t get half as much done on here as I wanted to - lots of project work this week and then personal stuff in the evenings. I’m not sweating it - this is hobby and I’m happy to devote free…

Even with the best will in the world, some contractors aren’t very good at labelling network ports. This can be for a number of reasons, but the result is an exasperated admin or technician who just needs to know what port on the switch an…