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I am sitting at my desk doing what I love—training Acture/CSI’s next generation of engineers. I am teaching them about Active Directory theory and operations. I am demonstrating how the Active Directory Recycle Bin works. I created a test ID in AD – Steve McQueen.

Today is a flash drill exercise. The Superintendent just told you that a retiring employee went rogue on the last day of school and sent a defamatory email to the entire district email distribution list. The Superintendent and your district legal counsel are asking you these questions: Where did the email go? Did it leave […]

Acture/CSI has been going at a dizzying pace. I counted 16 online and in-person events for 2024, plus NYSCATE. Then you add all the Acture Solutions events. The Acture Solutions family has been busy providing you with the best technical information and best products to support you in maintaining a stable, secure, manageable network for […]

I am sticking you with real work for Spring Break. My list is very short. I need you to update, patch, and scan your servers and endpoints I need you to recalibrate all your APC UPSes. Remember to do it only on a nice calm day without weather or wind.

Today is a flash drill exercise. The warm weather has arrived.  It is Thursday afternoon of Memorial Day weekend, and the district gave back an unused snow day, making it a four-day weekend. The weather forecast is ideal. Everyone is bugging out to enjoy themselves.

“Now, did you read the news today? They say the danger’s gone away. But I can see the fires still alight They’re burning into the night.” -Genesis, Land of Confusion As you continually upgrade your security posture and better protect your data from ransomware and data exfiltration, the bad guys keep devising innovative ways to […]

Do you know how many inactive accounts you have on your network? I know this can be a difficult number to determine sometimes. For most of you, Microsoft Active Directory is “the source of truth.” It syncs to Azure/Entra and/or Google Apps and elsewhere.

I wanted to remind you that “Hacker’s Holiday Hours” will start as you wind down for the Christmas break. Last year, I got a call from the SOC on the morning of the Saturday before Christmas. My wife made a face on that call, but we did what we needed to do.

There has never been a more important time for a comprehensive cybersecurity implementation plan. Consider this: On average, US schools lose $500K daily to downtime from ransomware attacks, and cybercrime generally keeps rising. With these more prevalent cyber threats, protecting your organization’s sensitive data and IT infrastructure is essential.

It seems like Cyber Attacks are happening everywhere these days. Whether it’s a national news report of an attack against a company that has your credit card information or local news reporting a school district like yours that’s been hit with a ransomware/data breach, these stories are plentiful.