Even the most effective webmaster struggles to overcome problems with SSL/TLS certificates. The top 5 challenges for a SSL manager are: Discovering all certificates in the network.Keeping up with vulnerabilities.Utilising private SSL certificates.Managing...
When an employee leaves, sysadmins disable their user accounts and redirect emails, but usually don’t unassign their software licenses. Then when a new employee joins, new software licenses get assigned from the license pool. This leads to license wastage. While not...
Why is the Password Management Application being important in the enterprise? Any enterprise is always heavily dependent on IT assets such as switches, servers, databases, and other software applications for their basic operations. These assets are mostly accessed and...
Is Patching still a pain? Patch deployment is one of the most important tasks in any IT organization. With networks becoming more and more vulnerable to malefic attacks, software vendors keep releasing umpteen patches to secure the networks that run their...
The IT world is moving rapidly towards automation of IT processes, as manual IT processes end up costing more, using more staff members time and lengthen the project duration. The kind of automation we’re talking about replaces manual labour with digital labour in the...
Do you know about ManageEngine Unified Endpoint Management Solutions? An umbrella approach to manage all endpoint IT devices. IT asset footprints are growing rapidly in today’s organizations. Managing these assets has become more challenging with the...
The biggest ransomware attack to date, WannaCry, used the EternalBlue exploit to infect more than 300,000 victims in over 150 countries. According to the Kaspersky security bulletin 2016, every 40 seconds a company got hit with ransomware and one in five small and...
One of the daily tasks for an IT admin is user provisioning and user de-provisioning. Although this sounds very straightforward, there are few other tasks that need to be performed to fully set up a user account. The first step for the IT admin is to configure an AD...
Every day, organisations of all sizes face network security threats from hackers. While Anti-Virus software and firewalls are a great way to secure your business, typically businesses neglect an important part of security, that is log file management. The very purpose...
I have been reading a lot of forums and blogs for ‘best practise guides’ to avoid any disasters in Windows Active Directory. These best practise guides provide you with enough information to get you started with your AD but it is still not enough. With the help of...
Today, Microsoft Office is the backbone of every organisation. Without applications such as Word, Excel or PowerPoint, it would be impossible to complete our everyday tasks. Microsoft has definitely come a long way from the traditional Office suite to the cloud-based...
We spend more time taking care of our Active Directory, looking after the File servers, SQL servers, etc. but end up neglecting the Exchange environment. Exchange is a Black Hole to network admins until the email communication is disrupted and it is time to fix. Like...
