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4 Essential Practices for Automating the Termination of Hybrid Users

When an identity from Active Directory (AD) is synchronized with a cloud-based identity platform such as Azure AD, those identities are classified as being hybrid. When user accounts are terminated [...]

Components of a PKI, Part 5: Hardware Security Modules

Not all organizations require their own PKI solution; however, most leverage Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services because it integrates directly with their existing Active Directory environment... [...]

Components of a PKI, Part 4: AD Certificate Services

Not all organizations require their own PKI solution; however, most leverage Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services because it integrates directly with their existing Active Directory environment... [...]

Components of a PKI, Part 1: Digital Certificates

Digital certificates (most commonly represented by the X.509 public key certificate standard) are signed data objects that associate a public key with an individual user, device, or entity. In this [...]

Components of a PKI, Part 3: Certificate Revocation

One important function of Certificate Authorities that’s mentioned briefly in Part 2 of our “Components of a PKI” blog series is the ability to perform certificate revocation, or the CA’s [...]

Components of a PKI, Part 2: Certificate Authorities and CA Hierarchies

In Part 1 of our “Components of a PKI” blog series, we defined several PKI terms that are useful for understanding Certificate Authorities (CAs—also known as Certification Authorities) and CA [...]

4 Best Practices for Hybrid Identity Attributes in Active Directory

User attributes are important metadata that should be treated with care. Some organizations do not take user attributes seriously enough, which creates problems when the company tries to automate system [...]

How to Effectively Manage Microsoft Intune Application Assignments with PowerShell and the Microsoft Graph API

In large-scale Microsoft Intune deployments, you’ll typically find both production and development tenants. For effective application testing, you’ll need to assign your applications to test groups of devices or users. [...]

Benefits of Air-Gapped Active Directory Backups

Several high-risk events have recently highlighted the importance of a fully functional and secure Active Directory environment to a company’s business operations. [...]

How to Protect Organizational Data on Mobile Devices

Do you know how to protect organizational data on mobile devices without affecting personal data? Are you aware of the policies required to implement a strong foundation for protecting your [...]