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Knowledge & Whitepapers
Welcome to our blog. Find everything you need to know about Active Directory, fileservers, and IAM.
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NIS2 Directive: What It Means for Affected Companies
In key sectors of the economy, such as energy, IT, transport and water supply, the NIS2 Directive aims to establish uniform security standards across the EU and ensure the resilience of IT systems, both physically and digitally. But what does this mean in practice
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Whitepaper – Identity & Access Management – With Milesstones to Success
This whitepaper explains the introduction of identity & access management systems. In particular, the various topics relating to people, resources and their interaction are examined and explained in more detail. The individual phases in the implementation of an IAM system are described and the various
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Whitepaper – Identity & Access Management Software: Providers & Comparison
For many companies, implementing an Identity & Access Management (IAM) system is becoming increasingly important. Companies often realise that they need to optimise their user and access permissions to gain better visibility, streamline processes, reduce the workload on their IT departments and, last but
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Whitepaper – Data Owner
In this whitepaper, we look at the role of a data owner in the context of a company. It explains the tasks of the data owner and the relevance of user and permission management. In addition, the document explains the importance of good interaction
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Roles/Profiles – How to build them efficiently?
The goal of modern identity and access management systems (IAM systems for short) is not only to manage user management and its processes, but also to distribute and also remove the resources and permissions managed therein efficiently and in line with requirements. This is
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Creating and Renaming Active Directory Groups – Special Features
IT departments in companies usually use the Active Directory directory service from Microsoft in their system landscape. User accounts, groups and other objects are stored and managed there. This article goes into the specifics of group names and the various Active Directory attributes, such
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Windows File Shares Configuration – Best Practice
In order to exchange data in companies, various file shares are repeatedly created by IT and published for the users. In the following article, we explain how to create file shares, provide information on the special features that need to be taken into account,
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Whitepaper – Identity & Access Management in the BSI Critical Infrastructure Regulation
The German Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI) defines Critical Infrastructures (KRITIS) as organisations and facilities whose significant disruption or failure would have serious consequences for public welfare, such as supply shortages or disruptions to public safety. The BSI Critical Infrastructure Regulation (BSI-Kritisverordnung) defines
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Active Directory: Users locked or disabled – What is the Difference?
There are different states for Active Directory user objects. For example, one distinguishes between activated, locked or deactivated accounts. Often the question arises, what is actually the difference between a locked and a deactivated AD user account. In this article, we will go into the individual states of
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Modify Permissions – Protect Permission Endpoints in NTFS using Modify Plus
In Microsoft Windows networks, permissions on the file server can be assigned either via share permissions or NTFS permissions. A combination of both types of permissions is also possible. However, NTFS permissions are predominantly used, since access can be controlled more granularly. As a rule,
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Whitepaper – NTFS Best Practice
This whitepaper explains the NTFS file system in more detail and is intended to share NTFS best practices. The main focus is on permission management in Microsoft environments and the effective administration of NTFS permissions. The document explains the different types of permissions and
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Dark Data – About the Data Load and how to face it
In our customer projects, we repeatedly experience a wide variety of file storage structures. But there is always one common denominator: a very high proportion of legacy data. Data is constantly captured, stored and therefore filed. After some time, nobody thinks about the data
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Permission Management vs. Identity & Access Management – What is the difference?
Employees in organizations need access to various resources (e.g. groups, applications, systems …) for their tasks. Managing these accesses is a challenge because the requirements are always changing as soon as new applications are added or users require additional access permissions. Often, in this
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Principle of Least Privilege (PoLP): Security through limited Access Rights
The General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (EU GDPR) has been in force since May 2018 and presents every company with new and increased data protection requirements. The processing of personal data, whether from customers, business partners or even the company’s own employees,
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Recertification: Check User Permissions & Access Rights
Many companies are faced with the task of documenting the access and permissions granted to employees, external persons and technical accounts and keeping them up to date. Unfortunately, this is still often treated very stepmotherly – for various reasons. Of course, people are busy
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Fileserver Migration or Permission Optimization – Best Practice
Almost every company uses fileservers to make data available to employees. Over the years, the amount of data grows continuously. At the same time, the permissions on the individual folder structures are constantly changing. New employees are given permissions, in the best case obsolete permissions
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Share Permissions vs. NTFS Permissions – Differences at a Glance
If a company wants to share local resources such as files and folders, it must be possible to control access permissions efficiently and easily. To protect against unwanted access to company data, there are two ways to manage permissions:Share permissions and NTFS permissions. Both are intended
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