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I was talking to a pen testing company recently at a data security conference to learn more about “day in the life” aspects of their trade. Their president told me...

NTFS permissions are used to manage access to the files and folders that are stored in NTFS file systems. When you are using share and NTFS (NT File System) permissions together, the most restrictive permission wins.

Privileged access management is the process to monitor and secure your most sensitive user accounts. Keep reading to find out how to use PAM to keep your data safe.

A quick, plain-English explanation. Active Directory is a directory service made by Microsoft, and LDAP is how you speak to it.

The cyber kill chain maps the stages of a cyberattack from the early reconnaissance stages to data exfiltration. The cyber kill chain helps us understand and combat ransomware, security breaches, and advanced persistent attacks (APTs).

We’re now at a point in this series where we’ve exhausted all our standard tricks to steal credentials — guessing passwords, or brute force attacks on the hash itself. What’s...

In the previous post in this series, I guessed a local password and then tried various ways to move laterally within my mythical Acme network. But what happens if you can’t...

The ability to administer and maintain up-to-date user lists and groups is critical to the security of an organization. There are a number of different ways to determine which groups...

When you’re naming domains, it should be planned as carefully as you would in naming your first child – of course I’m exaggerating – but it’s worth planning carefully. For...

CIFS, SMB, Samba, and NFS are technologies used to network client and server systems. Learn the difference between them and which to use when.