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What You Need to Know About Microsoft PKI

Public key infrastructure (PKI) is the bedrock of modern telecommunications. It is a foundational technology to uniquely identify clients and facilitate their secure transmission and storage of data between public [...]

What is a Pass-the-Hash Attack (PtH)? Mitigation Strategies for CISOs and IT Teams

Today, we’ll explore the signs of a pass-the-hash (PtH) attack and discuss methods to detect and prevent such attacks in your environment. At Ravenswood Technology Group, LLC, we have decades [...]

How to Perform an Active Directory Health Check

There are many components of Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) that can be assessed as part of a health check. Which ones to start with is, of course, [...]

Enabling ​Multifactor Authentication for Break Glass Accounts​ in Azure

By now, you’ve likely heard about Microsoft’s mandate requiring multifactor authentication (MFA) for all accounts accessing Microsoft Entra portals and APIs. If you haven’t already started, it’s time to address [...]

Improving Your PowerShell Scripts with PSScriptAnalyzer

PowerShell plays a significant role as an administrative scripting language. It is used extensively to manage Active Directory, Microsoft Azure, and Windows Server among many things as well as a [...]

Protecting Your Active Directory from Kerberoasting Attacks: A Practical Guide for IT Teams

Although organizations have made strides in the security of their on-premises Active Directory environments, password harvesting methods such as the Kerberoasting attack or AS-REP roasting remain prevalent in cyberattacks. Unfortunately, [...]

Taking Back Your Runaway Active Directory

When it comes to designing and administering active directory (AD), sometimes less is more. I have worked with a variety of both large and small AD environments where years of [...]

Should I Upgrade Active Directory Domain Services to Windows Server 2025?

The last major Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) update came with the release of Windows Server 2016. While there was a schema update with Windows Server 2019, it was [...]

Active Directory Hardening: Risks, Mitigation, and Best Practices

Microsoft Active Directory (AD) serves many purposes. The most important role it provides is authentication. To make authentication painless, Windows (and non-Windows) systems use AD to authenticate user accounts and [...]

Use Privileged Access Workstations to Increase Security

All organizations use privileged accounts to manage their environments. In many cases, administration is performed from productivity workstations, which are vulnerable to a substantial number of attack vectors. Need help [...]

Setting Up Microsoft Intune Cloud PKI

Many organizations are interested in leveraging the benefits and security that come with a public key infrastructure (PKI). While internal PKIs are incredibly powerful and are often a de facto [...]

Platform Single Sign-on: Windows Hello for macOS

First announced at WWDC in 2022, Platform SSO (PSSO) is now available for Microsoft Entra ID tenants. It can be configured on any supported macOS MDM, such as Microsoft Intune [...]