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  • your ad is a stomping ground for lateral movement

    Your AD is a stomping ground for lateral movement

    Lori Cotton
    Lori Cotton
    Active Directory (AD) is the backbone many enterprises lean on for their IT environments. Yet, most organizations rarely govern the directory with the scrutiny necessary. This was the throughline of a recent webinar with Nitish Deshpande, senior anal…
    • 10 Sep 2026
  • how to prevent chaos in the microsoft ad estate

    How to prevent chaos in the Microsoft AD estate: A quick-start guide to reduce risk and administrative burden in medium-sized regulated businesses

    andras fekete
    andras fekete
    How to prevent chaos in the Microsoft AD estate: A quick-start guide to reduce risk and administrative burden in medium-sized regulated businesses If you work in IT for a medium-sized regulated business, you already know the truth: Your Microsoft env…
    • 8 Sep 2026
  • Higher ed’s revolving door swings open for security risk

    Higher ed’s revolving door swings open for security risk

    Robert Kraczek
    Robert Kraczek
    Every year, higher education hits the same beats. New students show up in the fall, ready to begin their undergraduate career. Staff and faculty come and go on their own timelines, some tenured for decades and others moving on after a single semester…
    • 27 Aug 2026
  • your microsoft directory needs a firewall

    Your Microsoft directory needs a firewall

    Richard Lambert
    Richard Lambert
    Over 90 percent of Fortune 1000 companies run their identity on Active Directory and Entra ID. That stat answers two questions at once: Why AD is mission-critical and why it’s the most-attacked identity surface on the planet. Threat actors...
    • 12 Aug 2026
  • Managing Microsoft Teams with One Identity Active Roles

    Managing Microsoft Teams with Active Roles by One Identity

    Lori Cotton
    Lori Cotton
    Over 300 million people rely on Microsoft Teams to get their work done every day. That’s a lot of messages, meetings and “you’re on mute” moments happening every day. Teams makes it easy to collaborate. Too easy, sometimes. An...
    • 27 Jul 2026
  • Active Roles in practice: A system administrator's experience at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre

    Active Roles in practice: A system administrator's experience at Shaare Zedek Medical Centre

    PeerSpot
    PeerSpot
    One Identity Active Roles is an simple identity governance solution for Microsoft environments designed to extend the capabilities of native directory tooling. Where standard AD solutions for healthcare provides foundational user and group manag...
    • 17 Jul 2026
  • Active Roles version 8.5 now available: 4 new features

    Active Roles version 8.5 now available: 4 new features

    Lori Cotton
    Lori Cotton
    Modernize and protect your Active Directory (AD) using Active Roles by One Identity Active Roles version 8.5 provides several highly requested features to fortify and enrich the integration capabilities of Active Roles. These new features bring unmat…
    • 16 Jul 2026
  • active directory management personas

    If you manage Active Directory, you’ve met these four people

    Richard Lambert
    Richard Lambert
    Every IT organization runs on a small cast of characters. The help desk analyst racing through tickets. The domain admin holding too many keys. The compliance manager chasing screenshots before an audit. The IT director answering for all of it. In a …
    • 15 Jul 2026
  • Best practices to simplify OU structure

    Best practices to simplify OU structure

    Eric Hibar Jr.
    Eric Hibar Jr.
    Most organizations are still managing Active Directory (AD) in environments designed decades ago – often by people who are no longer with the company. What started as a logical organizational unit (OU) structure has slowly become brittle and fe...
    • 17 Jun 2026
  • why active directory vulnerabilities demand more than patching

    Why Active Directory vulnerabilities demand more than patching

    Richard Lambert
    Richard Lambert
    A newly disclosed privilege-escalation flaw in Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) is a timely reminder that identity infrastructure continues to be one of the most consequential attack surfaces in any enterprise. CVE-2026-25177, rated…
    • 15 May 2026
  • Why you need Active Roles, even if you have IGA

    Why you need Active Roles, even if you have IGA

    AJ Lindner
    AJ Lindner
    Learn the differences between Active Roles and IGA and why you need both to keep your environments secure.
    • 28 Apr 2026
  • exploring active roles rbac solution for streamlined permissions management

    Exploring Active Roles RBAC solution for streamlined permissions management

    Eric Hibar Jr.
    Eric Hibar Jr.
    Despite constant sweeping changes across IT, Active Directory (AD) continues to be the center of identity and access management (IAM) processes for most enterprises. Even as organizations adopt cloud identity platforms, on-premises AD carries the lio…
    • 10 Apr 2026
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