Category: IT Security
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System Issues and Public Panic
Air travel in the United States was severely interrupted by a cyber incident last week. I heard about it on the news as I walked my dog and spent the entirety of that walk framing how I would speak to the incident at the opening of my class later that day. I was teaching a…
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Microsoft Edge Security: Let’s keep going!
**DISCLOSURE: While I am contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I am not an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee or spokesman for the company. As has always been the case, all articles on this website represent me and nobody…
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Conditional Access Policies in Intune
**DISCLOSURE: While I am contracted to Microsoft Corporation, I am not an employee. The articles that I write are not meant to represent the company, nor are they meant to represent me as an employee or spokesman for the company. As has always been the case, all articles on this website represent me and nobody…
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Trusted Senders…
I have received a lot of spam in my day, and I have looked at some of it to see what tricks the bad guys are playing. I received this e-mail on my phone this morning. Please note, it was in my Inbox, and did not go into Junk. Does Microsoft use contractions? You’ve in…
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I Think… therefore, I am uncertain.
I spend a lot of time speaking with clients about their environments. From time to time, my job is to ‘interview’ them, so that I can properly document their environments. Recently I was speaking with a couple of admins at a private sector company who were very proud of their environments. They had hired a…
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An Open Letter to Application Developers
Dear Developers, I want to thank you for continuing to build applications and programs and other software that makes my life better. As an Infrastructure Specialist I feel my kind and your kind have developed a nice symbiosis over the years – I build the environments on which your solutions run, and you make my…
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The Shoemaker is No Longer Barefoot!
This post was originally written for the Canadian IT Pro Connection blog, and can be seen there at http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2012/09/13/the-shoemaker-is-no-longer-barefoot.aspx. For years I have been espousing the need to and value of locking down client workstations in a corporate environment. Part of the SWMI Story – the secure, well-managed IT infrastructure for which I named my…
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Oakville.com
Today is the day… My first article went live at Oakville.com, and that is very exciting for me. It is great to be able to give back to the community where I live… that I have called home for the past five years. It is amazing… the first time I spoke with my wife (Theresa)…
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Why we need a backup…
This is a story about IT Security. It is hard to believe that within three weeks we have had our Kia Rondo. However it is easy enough to gauge… we brought it home (used) on New Years Eve, December, 2009… When I drove Theresa to the hospital to deliver Gilad it was still on its…
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The Wonder that is TechEd
The quiet of the Exhibitor Hall is disturbed by the sounds of preparation. To my left there is a crew frantically working to fix something with a carpet. There is some hammering, more yammering, and the sounds of carpet tape being unfurled. To my right there are two security agents talking, but they are too…
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Cover Your A$$ – Secure Your WiFi Now!
I honestly hate saying ‘I told you so.’ For years I have been telling everyone who will listen (and a lot of people who didn’t want to) about the importance of securing wireless networks. I’ve told stories about the possible consequences, and have scared some of them into doing the right thing. Unfortunately far too…
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A Do-it-Yourself SWMI? No sweat!
Ok, let’s be honest. We all know that we need to secure our Active Directory infrastructures, but many of us are not entirely sure how. You may even know that Group Policy is a great tool to do it centrally, but with literally thousands of Group Policy settings available in Windows Server 2008 R2, where…
The World According to Mitch 