Expanding your organizations Active Directory environment is a crucial task to ensure high availability, redundancy, and load balancing. It is best practice to have at least 2 domain controllers in a production environment. Depending on the size and geographical distribution of your organization, you might need more. I will walk […]
File Integrity Monitoring – With PowerShell
File Integrity Monitoring is a process of ensuring files are maintaining their integrity. This is to ensure that they have not been changed or tampered with in an unauthorized way. For example, with FIM, you could have alerts sent to you if critical system files have been changed without your […]
Vulnerability Management – Running a Nessus Scan
Today, I used a tool called “Nessus” which is a Vulnerability Management tool. What is Vulnerability Management? Vulnerability Management is a process that involves identifying, assessing, prioritizing, and reducing vulnerabilities in systems, networks, etc. The goal of this is to lower the chances of a security breach or attack by […]
Setting Up an Active Directory Environment
As I look for jobs I see a lot of them are asking for AD experience. Active Directory is important because it provides a centralized way to manage and secure resources in a network environment. Here are some reasons why its important: Also, while Active Directory is a part of […]