Articles by 'Ed Bratter'

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Security

As a consultant in the Active Directory (AD) space, I see a lot of AD environments up close. One theme that has become painfully clear to me is that we, as the gatekeepers of Active Directory, are not doing a good enough job of securing our kingdom. Even the organizations that put a strong emphasis on security come up short in one way or another. This is often because the security professionals are focused on other areas of the network such as firewalls or intrusion detection. Those security professionals... read more.

• April 21, 2016

By Ed Bratter, Posted in Uncategorized

Background If your organization has deployed a Microsoft Certificate Authority (CA) for its PKI solution, your users probably started inquiring recently what the yellow triangle in the address bar of Google Chrome is all about (if they haven’t, either you are ahead of the curve or your users are… Well, I won’t go down that slippery slope). When clicking on the padlock, additional information shows that the website is encrypted with obsolete cryptography. Additionally, there is a reference that SHA1... read more.

• May 20, 2015