Who’s talking to my Active Directory? What is LDAP? Active Directory, ADAM and AD-LDS.  Microsoft’s implementation of directories that follow the X.500 standard.  Referred to as Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP to the layman: A directory tree Domain Hierarchy Objects consisting of various attributes Users, Groups, Computers Attributes have a type, a name and […]

Email, one the greatest innovations in communication since the telephone.  One could even argue that it is the most important.  The ability to have a conversation (albeit in electronic format), send vast quantities of data, and involve an unlimited number of recipients is the backbone of modern business. With each iteration, Exchange gets more and […]

Guys and Gals: it’s 2016. We live in a cyber age. Our lives are a heterogeneous smorgasbord of devices, operating systems, cloud storage and social media. We are virtually always online in one way or another. Even our watches are constantly connected to something. We monitor our steps, our pulse, or stocks, our friend’s social lives […]

A Holy Grail…. The Holy Grail of File Activity Auditing is very easily summarized with the well known 5 ‘Y’s and the ‘H’…or is it? We can discount two of these straight away: Why: The reason or sentiment behind why is virtually impossible to identify and certainly isn’t a binary, 1 or 0 thing. So let’s […]

The General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR) For many, April 14th will go down in history as the day the world (well, Europe anyway) woke up and realized the importance of privacy laws designed for the 21st Century. What is the EU GDPR? A directive intended to regulate the movement of personal data within the […]