by Darren Mar-Elia | Jun 12, 2018 | Security-related
I was motivated to write this post based on a vendor blog that I read recently, that talked about ways to maliciously perform what amounted to a denial of service attack on AD. Ostensibly the post was designed to sell software, which I don’t begrudge, but it got...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Apr 27, 2018 | Security-related
A couple of weeks ago, I gave a webinar for Semperis, on the topic of protecting AD from attackers. I presented 5 tips on the things you can do within your AD and Windows environments, to protect against “information exposure” that might allow an attacker...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Mar 22, 2018 | General, Uncategorized
Long before I got into the software business, and even during that time, I was first and foremost, an IT guy. I have spent nearly 20 years of my 30+ years in technology in IT–mostly in large organizations. Much of that time, I worked as an infrastructure...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Nov 29, 2017 | General Stuff
All- Over the past few years, I’ve sent out a survey to the general population looking at trends in Group Policy usage. I’ve updated the survey for this year and it is now live and ready for your responses. It should take only about 5 minutes or less to...
by Darren Mar-Elia | Oct 20, 2017 | Freeware, Uncategorized
One of the very first freeware projects I undertook when I started SDM Software, was to build a PowerShell snap-in (yes, they were called snap-ins back then) for Group Policy. That was back in 2007, long before Microsoft had their own Group Policy module...
