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You have been trained wrong.
For twenty years, every login screen you have touched has nagged you about the same three things. Add a capital letter. Add a number. Add a special character — no, not that special character. There is a comedian who does a whole bit on this, walking through the escalating demands one requirement at a time, and it kills every time because...
RDP security best practices boil down to one thing I will argue about with anybody: Remote Desktop Protocol does not belong on the internet. Not behind a weak password. Not “just for now.” Not because you’re a small shop and who’d bother with you. Off. I’ve been calling it the Ransomware Deployment Protocol for years, and I didn’t come up with that name because it was funny. ...
I’ve been saying it for years: turning on MFA is not optional anymore, and if you’re still letting important accounts sit there with no MFA, that’s professional malfeasance. But here’s the thing I’ve come around on, and it’s the whole reason we did this episode: plain old MFA isn’t the finish line anymore either. What you actually want is phishing resistant MFA, and if you do...
Here’s the thing nobody wants to hear: your backup server is probably the least secured, most powerful box on your network, and that combination is exactly why attackers love it. Backup security best practices sound like the kind of topic you skip because backups are boring, invisible, and only matter when something’s already gone wrong. That’s the problem. That invisibility ...