Lucio Benzor

More companies than ever before are realizing the shortcomings of having applications hosted on on-premises datacenters. They’re fickle to manage and update. A userbase to support, servers to patch, ever-growing storage to keep an eye out for, and redundant controls to implement – all on a likely shoestring budget. Security...

Some time ago, I wrote a post on Defender ATP (now called Microsoft Defender for Endpoint) and the OS hardening measures it offers under attack surface reduction rules that are useful for crafting a client that’s resilient against next gen attacks. But seeing as most admins have projects with certain...

With the way the world is today, most working adults whose jobs can be done remotely are being asked to work remotely. On the IT side of things, great pains have been made to accomplish this. There have been investments in VPNs and firewalls and consultants have been brought on...

Let’s start this post by looking at the Microsoft definition of what a Hybrid Azure AD Joined device is Joined to on-premises AD and Azure AD requiring organizational account to sign into the device Simple enough. It’s a device that retains fealty to Active Directory while being joined to the...

I’ve had the good fortune recently to do a few Proof Of Concepts on different security software with some clients who’ve recovered from ransomeware. Though they had sophisticed Intrusion Prevetion systems in place and ACLs locked down like Fort Knox, these were grueling events that passed through all sorts of...