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Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is not yet a household name in the public cloud marketplace as is Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure, but that’s changing rapidly. While the GCP still lags behind AWS and Azure regarding...

As is well known, keeping systems updated is essential to protecting enterprises from malicious attacks and security breaches that may compromise confidential information or even cause sensitive data losses. Installing Windows update...

Single sign-on (SSO) has evolved quietly into federated authentication. Federated authentication streamlines user login credentials across multiple platforms and applications to simplify the sign-in process while enhancing...

Companies commonly use Microsoft Windows PowerShell to automate most of their administration and configuration procedures, from the simplest tasks to the most complex ones. Task automation provides several advantages to...

The enterprise network is the backbone of any modern enterprise’s business operations. The sheer size and diversity of an enterprise network makes it very difficult and costly to build, maintain, administer and secure. Because the...

Windows Firewall is used to enhance the system security, allowing or blocking inbound and outbound network traffic. Due to security reasons, and as a best practice recommendation, the firewall configuration becomes even much...

A hypervisor is a software layer that creates and runs isolated virtual machines over hardware. Bare metal is a physical server whose hardware resources are dedicated entirely to a sole tenant. Bare metal hypervisors are used extensively for...

The log on as a service user right allows accounts to start or run services on a Windows machine. By default, and due to security reasons, services can only be configured to run under the Local...

This article covers the basics of SAML authentication, how it works behind the scenes, the benefits of using SAML authentication and how it streamlines user access to your organization’s applications. What is SAML...

In simple terms, a hypervisor definition would be a software layer that creates and runs many isolated virtual machines (VMs) over single hardware. Before dwelling on the details of what a hypervisor is, it...