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Federated Infrastructure
Auditing DNS Record Entries (or deletions)
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over 7 years ago
by
Anthony Witecki
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I got an unusual request from a customer today. She is in an environment where everyone is currently a domain admin (not a good thing). Although they are taking my advice and moving to a least priviliged scenario, things are sometimes slow in federations...
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How does Authentication Work Cross Domain?
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over 7 years ago
by
Anthony Witecki
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A question that comes up frequently involving federated customers is how does an organization need to configure its firewalls to allow users in a trusted, but not fully trusted, domain to access their resources. Consider the following scenario: [WEB...
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Active Directory LDAP Queries
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over 7 years ago
by
Anthony Witecki
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Active Directory Users and Computers (2003 version) provides a feature called Saved Queries that takes advantage of LDAP queries to find objects in Active Directory that might meet a specific condition. When I am working with customers, I am often surprised...
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Political Forest and Domain Design
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over 8 years ago
by
Anthony Witecki
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In my work with a large number of federated customers, the unavoidable component of Active Directory design is the age-old question of "How many forests do I need?" This is simple to define, but challenging to discuss in the board room. There are three...
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ADC Lessons Learned the Hard Way
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over 8 years ago
by
Anthony Witecki
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What happens when a federation, each with its own domain, separated by firewalls within a single forest, attempts to implement the Active Directory Connector in a federated fashion? The perception was that this deployment model would be more secure, because...
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Security Misunderstandings in Federations
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over 8 years ago
by
Anthony Witecki
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What does it mean to have a secure environment? Is it proper authentication and access controls? Freedom from viruses and worms? Availability? Acceptable disaster recovery? Freedom from human error? Data integrity? I would argue, and I would assume most...
Federated Infrastructure
The Federation Firewall Boundary
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over 8 years ago
by
Anthony Witecki
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As a specialist by trade in both technology and financial audit, internal control structures and security play an important role in the work that I do. I came across Steve Riley's Death of the DMZ over broadband the other day and his thesis really hit...
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