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Feb 19, 2020, 00:00 AM
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Tim Warner
In cloud computing generally and in Microsoft Azure specifically, the shared responsibility model means that both Microsoft and you (the customer) have a role to play in ensuring service high availability.
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Jan 22, 2020, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
Adversaries can utilize MITM attacks to steal credentials, even when they are protected by SSL.
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Jan 9, 2020, 00:00 AM
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June Castillote
In this article, you will learn about Azure Automation Assets. You will also learn how to add assets to your automation account that your runbooks can then use at runtime.
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Dec 18, 2019, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
One of the most significant issues faced in a Microsoft Windows environment is the ability to steal credentials and utilize these credentials to move throughout the network laterally.
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Jun 21, 2019, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
A pass the hash attack is a common attack vector utilized by many adversaries. In this attack, a Windows username is paired with the hashed value of a Windows account password. Let's take a deeper look.
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Mar 29, 2019, 00:00 AM
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Prateek Singh
Amazon Web Services enables you to create a custom defined virtual network also know as Amazon VPC or Amazon Virtual Private Cloud, which, just like any traditional network in a data center, is highly scalable and easily configurable using programming languages like...
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Mar 6, 2019, 00:00 AM
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Prateek Singh
Amazon Web Services offers a very popular object storage service known as Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) that enables you to store data, files, images and even videos in highly available containers called ‘buckets’ which are also easy to access endpoints using any...
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Nov 9, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Nate Lewis
"The call is coming from inside the house...” This line from 1979’s When a Stranger Calls terrorized audiences by introducing the notion that the things we should be most fearful of may be in the spaces we feel most safe. This idea translates neatly to the enterprise...
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Oct 10, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Prateek Singh
Tired of managing Windows system administration tasks manually? Wish you could set up a few Python scripts instead? Where there's a will, there's a way! In this article, we'll show you how to install Python's WMI module and how you can use it to perform system...
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Oct 2, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Prateek Singh
Amazon Web Services (AWS) offers a service known as Identity and Access Management (IAM) that lets AWS Administrators provision and manage users and permissions in AWS cloud. AWS IAM can prove very useful for System Administrators looking to centrally manage users,...
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Sep 25, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Prateek Singh
In this article, we'll take a look at how system administrators can use Python to manage their Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure. You’ll learn to query existing EC2 instances, change the state of the virtual machines and their...
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Sep 20, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
In this article, I will show how to configure a Vagrant box to run PowerShell.
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Sep 17, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Prateek Singh
In this article, we'll take a look at how Python can be used by System Administrators to automate the management of Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) infrastructure. You'll learn how to set up the Python scripting environment for first use, and how to...
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Sep 17, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Docker for Windows is a product offered by Docker that allows users to set up a Docker container on a client-based operating system (Windows 10).
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Sep 9, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Jeff Edwards
One of the new features of Ipswitch's MOVEit Automation 2018 product is the introduction of REST APIs. In this video from Ipswitch contributor
Adam Betram, we'll cover how to use PowerShell to first authenticate to a MOVEit Automation server and then we'll cover how to...
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Sep 3, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Don't let your entire workflow be hung up because one of the scripts is stuck on some task. There's a way around that!
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Aug 28, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Dan Franciscus
The majority of organizations are not going to use one specific provider to host their systems. Whether it be VMware on-premises, Azure in the cloud, AWS, or Hyper-V, most will be operating on more than one.
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Aug 28, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
One of the excellent features of the new MOVEit Transfer 2018 product is the introduction of RESTful (REST) APIs. If you're not familiar with REST APIs, it boils down to an industry-standard way of accessing applications or services over HTTP/S.
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Aug 27, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
Large organizations typically have lots of devices that require IP addresses. Client desktops, tablets, mobile and desk phones, servers and more all consume IPs. The only way to manage IPs at this level is to use Microsoft Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP),...
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Aug 13, 2018, 00:00 AM
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Adam Bertram
There are many different types of objects that we can work with in Python. Dates are one of those objects that are infamous in nearly every language. Date types are notoriously hard to wrangle but Python has quite a few ways to manipulate dates and time.
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