Windows Active Directory (AD) service accounts are prime cyber-attack targets due to their elevated privileges and automated/continuous access to important systems. Windows Administrators should ...

For one reason or another, which could be to enforce your corporate working hours policy or to improve security as threat actors will be unable to log on during non-office hours, administrators can ...

If Active Directory Users and Computers (ADUC) is not responding or is slow to load on Windows Server or Windows 11/10 client machines, the solutions provided in this post can be applied to ...

Why use third-party security tools for Active Directory account cleanups when the ubiquitous PowerShell serves just as well? In a presentation of Microsoft security best practices, 21-time Microsoft ...

Microsoft announced a couple of Azure Active Directory security enhancements this week. Microsoft is previewing the ability to allow IT pros to remove inactive user accounts for organizations that use ...

Microsoft this week announced some External Identities enhancements for Azure Active Directory users. External Identities, commercially released last year, provides identity support that lets ...

I am a NT newbie and would like to know how to lock down a user's account in Windows 2000 Pro. I am pretty sure Active Directory is found only with Win2k Adv. Server (correct me if I am wrong) but ...

To thwart password and phishing attacks, Microsoft is rolling out security defaults to a massive number of Azure Active Directory (AD) users. Microsoft began rolling out security defaults to customers ...

It tactfully leverages Active Directory user accounts or groups when granting access to SQL Server. In this mode, Database Administrators are given the opportunity to grant domain or local server ...

Researchers at Secureworks’ Counter Threat Unit (CTU) have warned of a new and potentially serious vulnerability affecting the pass-through authentication (PTA) hybrid identity authentication method ...

Active Directory compromise can devastate operations. This playbook outlines how to contain, investigate, and recover.