Accounts with excess privileges is a common issue for today’s organizations. Scaling back these permissions is often a challenge. You need data to back up why a certain account is over privileged for its purpose within the organization. Change …
Accounts with excess privileges is a common issue for today’s organizations. Scaling back these permissions is often a challenge. You need data to back up why a certain account is over privileged for its purpose within the organization. Change …
For most circumstances using Recovery Manager for Active Directory to revert changes made to Active Directory is pretty simple. If we need to revert a group's membership, we just search for the group from the selected backup and restore it from an appropriate…
Six Quest Microsoft Platform Management solutions just won honors in the 2018 Annual American Business Awards!
One of the seven Stevie Awards competitions, the American Business Awards are the nation’s premier business awards program. Over 200 professionals…
I’m excited to announce that Quest Software has been named the top winner in the 2018 People's Choice Stevie Awards for Favorite New Products! This category is a feature of The American Business Awards, the U.S.A.’s top business awards program…
Organizations exist either to generate revenue or to perform a service. The mere thought of securing an environment doesn’t exist until there is something of value to secure. Once you have gotten to that stage of an organizational lifecycle, people…
Currently 30% of companies in the United States are using the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to manage risks with projections of 50% by the year 2020 (https://iapp.org/news/a/the-future-of-the-nist-cybersecurity-framework/).
Quest has a broad portfolio…
Understanding the architecture of a product is vital for a customer in deciding if it is a good fit for their organization. Over the years, we've seen debates on whether agent-based or agent-less solutions are a better fit for organizations. A decision…
Here are some of the questions I get about the Change Auditor database when visiting customers:
In my previous post, I touched on how you can identify users in AD with elevated rights. Now we need to determine if they're really necessary.
Step 2: Identifying what rights are needed for the job.
I can't begin to tell you how many companies that…