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Articles, Microsoft, Microsoft licensing
Microsoft Office app licensing for MSPs utilising RDS
Microsoft Office app licensing for MSPs utilising RDS – short answer is, if you are an Managed Service Provider (MSP) and you are not a Qualified Multitenant Hoster (QMTH) then you can not provide the Microsoft Office apps via Remote Desktop Services (RDS) to your clients. Recently this question was given to me to answer…
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kicksec.IO
04/05/2022
Articles, SIEM, XDR
Trend XDR – Microsoft sentinel Integration
Using Trend XDR – Microsoft sentinel Integration is an excellent way to connect to additional sources of telemetry data and add this to your corporate instance of Microsoft Sentinel for SIEM and SOAR capabilities. I discovered this article this morning in my feed and thought it would be great to share as it is a…
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kicksec.IO
02/05/2022
Articles, ASD 8, ASD essential 8, Australian cyber security centre
Easy Fail – Australian critical infrastructure
The Easy Fail in critical infrastructure should have all of us worried right now, whether it is the water being turned off, the traffic lighting systems that we all rely on to get around the cities we live in or much worse, the Electricity that we used to power our homes and provide us warmth…
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kicksec.IO
27/04/2022
Articles, Cyber risk
Why do businesses not do cyber security!
for very long), everything a business spends money on that does not make money is an expense and some expenses are more critical than others.
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kicksec.IO
26/04/2022
Articles, ACSC, ACSC essential 8, ASD, ASD 8, ASD essential 8, Client Access Security Broker, Data Loss Prevention, Zero Trust Network Architecture, ZTNA
Once the horse has bolted – or detection and response should not be an early stage cyber resilience control
Or in other words detection and response solutions should not be a first step in a cyber resilience strategy – after the horse has bolted is too late to be worried about how the animal got out of the stable. The Australian Cyber Security Centre does not even list Endpoint detection and Response solutions in…
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kicksec.IO
22/04/2022
Articles
Vendor acquisitions not good for existing clients
Vendor acquisitions not good for existing clients – please prove me wrong… Kaseya has announced their acquisition of Datto for $6.2 Billion. Kaseya is a leader in the Managed Services software space and also less favourably was breached in 2021, Datto for their part is a leader in the managed backup and recovery market for…
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kicksec.IO
21/04/2022
Articles, ACSC, ACSC essential 8, ASD, ASD 8, ASD essential 8, EndPoint Protection, Microsoft Autopatch, Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Autopatch – Patch Tuesday is gone for good!
Microsoft Autopatch – Patch Tuesday is gone for good! As an ex-systems administrator my life back in the good ol’ days was busy. Waiting for the next patches Testing the new patches Deploying the new patches …….. rolling back the new patches where it causes a legacy printer or other device to no longer function!…
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kicksec.IO
19/04/2022
Articles, ACSC, ACSC essential 8, CIS 18, Cyber Security Framework, MSP, NIST CSF
Cyber Attack Vectors 2022; where marketing and reality diverge
Cyber Attack Vectors 2022; where marketing and reality diverge. The Identity Theft resource centre ‘Q1 2022 Data Breach Analysis’ report is an interesting 2022 report with a not surprising result to many cyber security professionals. Human Error is the number One source of cyber breach The number one attack vector “Cyber attack” is in-fact Human…
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kicksec.IO
14/04/2022
Articles
The cyber security herd effect
Close your eyes and imagine the African Savannah, you are a “be”wildebeest grazing away happily when an alert is raised and the entire herd of 100s of animals suddenly takes to the plains to outrun whatever the alarm was raised for. This time it was a single lioness looking for an easy meal, but the…
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kicksec.IO
14/04/2022
Articles, Microsoft, Microsoft Defender, Microsoft Defender Application Guard, Sandbox, Windows Sandbox
Sandboxing with Windows 10 – Microsoft Defender Application Guard
Sandboxing with Windows 10 – Microsoft Defender Application Guard, the feature to sandbox suspicious or unknown documents has been in Windows for some time and is very useful in preventing Malware from Office macros and other runtime nasties from being able to infect your machine. Sandboxing allows applications / documents etc to run inside their…
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kicksec.IO
11/04/2022