When individuals contemplate IT they typically reflect on the ways in which they have been exposed and impacted by IT services. Often services like setting up computers and fixing printers come to mind. These services frequently equate to “IT help”...
Business Empowerment: Where Information Technology Intersects Growth
SSSD Linux Active Directory Authentication: Joining a Domain Without VPN
We have a few earlier blog posts on setting up Linux based Samba file shares with Active Directory authentication.Similarly, there are many documents on the Internet on configuring LDAP authentication to Active Directory.However, very little has...
Azure AD Authentication to Azure VM
Many organizations are adopting a cloud only approach to infrastructure. Why wouldn’t they? It’s scalable with predictable costs, and it can be accessed from virtually anywhere. However, authenticating with services and virtual machines on the cloud...
Fundamental Issues with IT Security
You don't have to look far to find yet another news story about a company or organization getting breached or hacked in some way. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, by September 30, 2021 the number of data breaches had already exceeded...
Navigating Mobile Device Security
We are fortunate to live at such a time, when so much technology exists to make our lives easier, or more convenient. Unfortunately, we also live at a time when vulnerabilities in these systems is exploited by, and for the benefit of, bad actors....