A year in review blog in November? A tad early for a calendar year but spot on for a Quest year. One year ago Quest separated from Dell Technologies to chart a course as an independent software vendor. Looking to “right what was wrong,” we emerged with…
Are you considering migrating to Office 365, or an on-premise Exchange server? Perhaps your company is involved in a merger or divestiture and you need to migrate under a condensed timeline, from one Office 365 tenant to another Office 365 tenant……
When you move out of a house, do you just toss everything into boxes, then throw the boxes into a truck?
That’s a pretty tempting approach to moving, especially if you don’t really want to move in the first place. But look what a mess awaits you at the…
A few weeks ago, Bryan Patton wrote about using Microsoft's Enhanced Security Admin Environment (ESAE) to improve your Active Directory security. Whether you make the decision to migrate to an ESAE environment, to an "Orange Forest", or to harden…
“Call and let me know how much fun you’re having,” I told my cousin when she went off to college a few weeks ago.
“As if,” she said.
“What’s the big deal?” I said. “Spend five minutes and tell me how much fun you’re having…
Identity is the new control plane, which means that being able to back up and recover both your on-premises Active Directory and Azure Active Directory (AD) is critical. But most customers I work with don’t know how to respond if sensitive objects are…
Remember Hank the Hacker? Hank is a fictional character we created for a recent webcast series around Active Directory security best practices. Hank represents hackers that appear in many shapes and sizes and who love to exploit the security limitations…
One thing is for certain – security has never been so scrutinized and publicized as it has these last few years. IT security spending is the highest it has ever been and yet cyberattacks, and the stolen company and customer data that follows, continues…
We interrupt this blog to bring you this message: Our thoughts and well wishes go out to to all those who were impacted by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. Recovery from these catastrophic disasters won’t be quick and many will need our help to get…
In reviewing the DFS Cybersecurity regulation Section 500.02, I immediately began thinking of the NIST Framework. Section B has several subsections that map to NIST:
| Identify Risks | Identify |
| Defensive Infrastructure | Protect |
| Detect Cybersecurity… |
