Ransomware attacks are skyrocketing. Are you prepared? Since Active Directory provides authentication and authorization services for users and critical applications, a solid Active Directory recovery plan must be at the core of every ransomware defense strategy. Indeed, as one Gartner analyst notes, “The restore process from many well-documented ransomware attacks has been hindered by not having an intact Active Directory […]

Defending your IT infrastructure against attack has never been a simple task. But things have taken a decidedly ugly turn of late: More and more attacks are simply seeking the total annihilation of your infrastructure. Any organization can be a target – or simply collateral damage from an attack targeting someone else. Sadly, many organizations are simply unprepared, and as […]

The statistics are staggering: 95M Active Directory accounts are attacked every day and 1.2M Azure AD accounts are compromised each month. On top of that, malicious insiders are eagerly looking for data to steal, and stressed-out workers and admins are making careless mistakes. You simply can’t afford to spend hours scouring AD audit logs and taking the very real risk […]

IT environments are more dynamic than ever, and having more users working from home introduces new vulnerabilities. You undoubtedly want to take full advantage of the tools you already have to strengthen Office 365 security and compliance — but you probably just don’t have the time to go digging through them to find what you need. Good news: With Quest […]

Cybercriminals see your agency as an attractive target because of the sensitive personal data you store — including Social Security and driver’s license numbers, credit card information, and police reports. But defending your Microsoft Active Directory against attack has never been a simple task. Ransomware seeking the total annihilation of state and local governments’ IT infrastructures has increased in frequency […]

Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 migration projects are inherently complicated and risky – and this goes double for state and local government agencies. Your SharePoint environment is critical to the productivity of your agency, but consolidating and migrating the legacy infrastructure is a daunting task given your resource and budget constraints. So how can you ensure a successful SharePoint content […]

Defending your IT infrastructure against cyber attacks has never been a simple task — and the current coronavirus pandemic has made it even tougher. With work from home exploding and IT teams forgoing security initiatives to enable remote access and ensure productivity of remote workers, attackers are striking hard and fast. Moreover, more and more attacks are now seeking not […]

Is your organization really more secure now that you’re running applications in the cloud? Don’t forget that users can still perform high-risk actions in the cloud, and account credentials can still be compromised. Unfortunately, native auditing tools for Office 365 and Azure AD retain audit events in logs for only a limited time. They offer only a small window into […]