Category: Security

• Sharing Passwords

  This is NOT an article about my mother.  She just happens to be the person at the other end of this conversation, but it could have been any house guest. My mother has been staying with me for the past few days.  It is the first time she has stayed with me, and it has…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 29, 2014

  Password, Security

• Folder Redirection: Where’d these warnings come from?

  Congratulations.  You have decided to implement a Folder Redirection policy on your domain.  There are real advantages to this, not the least of which is that all of your users’ profile folders will get backed up centrally… and that when they change computers their files and settings are just there. You have created a Group…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 18, 2014

  Group Policy, Security, Windows 7, Windows 8

• 1-2-3-4-5 BitLocker 9-8-7-6-5

  I was sitting in a planning meeting with a client recently in which we were discussing ways of protecting end-user machines, especially laptops that were in and out of the office.  The previous convention relied on BIOS locks that were proprietary to the hardware manufacturer, and required the end user to either enter two passwords…

  Mitch Garvis

  December 18, 2013

  BitLocker, Encryption, Group Policy, Security, Windows 8

  BIOS, BitLocker, BitLocker Drive Encryption, Encryption, Personal identification number, Trusted Platform Module, Windows, Windows Vista

• Passwords Revisited… a post from a fellow MVP

  Many of you know that I am a fanatic about changing passwords and password complexity.  I have written time and again about the subject. (See Pass the Word…) I am also a big hater of what my friend Dana Epp refers to as ‘Security Theatre.’  I have often berated people at Rogers, AT&T, and a…

  Mitch Garvis

  February 14, 2013

  Microsoft MVP, Password, Security

  Password, Security, Security Questions, Security Theatre

• Pass the Word…

  How often do you change your online passwords?  If you are like the vast majority of us then the answer is not nearly often enough.  Until recently I fell into the same category, and fixing that took a little bit of doing. One day several months ago I looked at Theresa and said ‘I think…

  Mitch Garvis

  November 21, 2012

  Credentials, Identity Theft, on-line safety, Password, Security

• Two Factor Authentication for Office 365!

  NOTE: I did not write this article; in fact, it is copied word for word from an e-mail I received from Scorpion Software.  However it is a solution I do believe in.  I am not selling for Scorpion Software, nor do I receive any benefit from their sales, nor are the links herein set to…

  Mitch Garvis

  September 21, 2012

  AuthAnvil, Authentication, Security, Two factor Authentication

  Cloud computing, Microsoft, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 365, Office 365, Office suite, Personal computer, Single sign-on