First published on TechNet on Apr 18, 2015 We all know people, friends and family, that have fallen for the “your system is infected, press here to get protected” scams that are becoming even more com...

First published on TechNet on Jan 02, 2013 Scareware, a type of malware that mimics antimalware software, has been around for a decade and shows no sign of going away.

First published on TechNet on Oct 28, 2012 A key part of any cybersecurity plan is “continuous monitoring”, or enabling auditing and monitoring throughout a network environment and configuring automat...

First published on TechNet on Aug 22, 2012 Windows Azure’s compute platform, which includes Web Roles, Worker Roles, and Virtual Machines, is based on machine virtualization.

First published on TechNet on Jul 01, 2012 This case is my favorite kind of case, one where I use my own tools to solve a problem affecting me personally.

First published on TechNet on May 06, 2012 Many of you have read Zero Day, my first novel.

First published on TechNet on Jan 03, 2012 As a reader of this blog I suspect that you, like me, are the IT support staff for your family and friends.

First published on TechNet on Nov 27, 2011 This case unfolds with a network administrator charged with the rollout of the Microsoft Windows Intune client software on their network.

First published on TechNet on Nov 06, 2011 Disk cloning has become common as IT professionals virtualize physical servers using tools like Sysinternals Disk2vhd and use a master virtual hard disk imag...

First published on TechNet on Oct 02, 2011 This case opens when a Sysinternals power user, who also works as a system administrator at a large corporation, had a friend report that their laptop had b...