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http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38785 (I am only a little miffed I wasn’t invited to review this… thanks Laura…) Protecting Domain Controllers Domain controllers should be treated as critical infrastructure components, secured more stringently and configured more rigidly than file, print, and application servers. Domain controllers should not run any software that is not required for the domain controller […]

I am working on it. I learned a things with that poll… 1. That software wasn’t designed to host a poll with multiple questions 2. I need to write better questions, some people seemed confused with the answers they gave. 3. Some people like to stuff the ballot box (didn’t think I would look at […]

http://blogs.technet.com/b/trustworthycomputing/archive/2013/01/03/designing-reliable-and-secure-cloud-solutions.aspx   at a basic level there are three main causes of cloud services failure: 1. Device and infrastructure failures 2. Software vulnerabilities 3. Human errors If we anticipate these failures will invariably happen – that indeed they are a constant threat – we need to design cloud services so that when something does go […]

FTR: I don’t hate virtual machines, I hate the incompetence that surrounds them. — joe (@joewaredotnet) March 13, 2013 Rating 4.50 out of 5

I wanted to share an analogy I wrote that was part of a response to a document effectively describing the cloning of a production AD environment that would live on the same physical network without a firewall. Visualize you have a locked and secured gun cabinet with loaded shotguns with hair triggers. But instead of […]