Product showcase: Specops Password Auditor
They are often the target of many attackers who search for them like gold. Some can be easily found, while others can be more difficult to come by. However, inevitably, they …
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Review: Specops Password Policy
Specops Password Policy is a powerful tool for overcoming the limitations of the default password policies present in Microsoft Active Directory environments. To be fair, …
The challenge of updating locally cached credentials
As organizations work to ensure remote workforce productivity, the issue of cached credentials will inevitably appear, causing a problem for the impacted user, and the IT …
Help your helpdesk: Empower employees to self-reset their AD account password
The COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a momentous shift for many organizations: remote work has become the new normal. Businesses that were skeptical before are now being forced …
Social engineering: Mind the identity verification gap
Billions of personal data records are up for sale on the Dark Web as data breaches continue to occur at an alarming rate. According to Risk Based Security’s 2019 Midyear Data …
Review: Specops Key Recovery
Mobile device use continues to grow, while an increasingly mobile and remote workforce depends heavily on laptops. To secure those devices, organizations need to implement …
Active Directory password reset best practices
Password change and password reset are terms that are often used interchangeably. However, they are not the same. A user will perform a password change when they remember …
Review: Specops uReset
Yes, it’s 2019 and we still have to deal with passwords. They should be replaced or supplemented with multi-factor authentication as soon as possible, but it looks like they …
Blocking compromised passwords from the Collection leaks
It all started with Collection #1, a monster breach dubbed as the biggest data dump in history with its 773 million unique email addresses, and 22 million unique passwords. …
Find out what your peers are saying about Office 365 MFA
Specops Software ran a global survey that gauged satisfaction with Office 365 MFA among other O365 adoption initiatives. Not surprisingly, most respondents are not satisfied …
Review: Specops Password Policy
All who work in the information security industry agree that passwords are one of the worst security nightmares of the modern information security age. Having weak passwords …
Don’t let attackers worm their way in: Increase password security
Passwords are inherently the weakest form of authentication, yet they remain the most prevalent. Many organizations realize that moving beyond this single point of …
