Following the SolarWinds Orion-based software attack, Microsoft last month recommended security measures for IT pros to consider.
Microsoft has been compiling a list of tips to identify such attacks at its Microsoft Security Response Center’s Solorigate page.
The articles on security recommendations were mostly written by Alex Weinert, director of identity security at Microsoft.
Active Directory Group Policy in a Nutshell
March 2, 2021
What you will learn:
Managing an Active Directory (AD) network can become a little cumbersome once the number of resources in the network becomes larger. There is a myriad of things that need to be controlled such as security permissions, software installation, desktop settings for users and computers, administrator privileges, and many more. Group Policies make managing all these settings…
Introduction
Group Policy includes policy settings that affect both users and computers. The settings under Computer Configuration control how the computer is configured. The settings under User Configuration control the user’s log-on session. Settings configured for a computer are processed first when the computer starts, followed by the user configuration settings when the user logs…
Active Directory Group Policy
March 2, 2021
Introduction- What is Group Policy?
Group Policy is a security tool built into Microsoft Active Directory that gives network administrators access to a variety of advanced settings. Administrators can set up and manage user settings, operating systems, and applications from a single platform. Group Policies help strengthen the security of users and computers and guard against both insider…
Active Directory Policies
March 2, 2021
The time and cost spent to organize, control, and maintain the IT infrastructure of an organization are very high. It is the IT administrator’s job to ensure that the employees of the organization have the latest software, adequate security settings, availability of files and folders, uniform desktop appearance in whichever machine they log on to, etc. It’s a tedious job, to say the…
