Network Administration ⁽¹⁸⁾

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…

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…

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…