Encrypting and Decrypting sensitive Information in ASP.NET Core
In today’s digital landscape, securing sensitive information is more critical than ever. If you're using ASP.NET Core, you might store configuration settings in appsettings.json. However, hardcoding sensitive data like connection strings or API keys in plain text can expose your application to serious risks.
Outlook message encryption - avoid delegate access
Dear community, we have following challenge. We would like to use the message encryption option (OME) It´s simple to implement and fits for most of our needs. However we have one scenario where it doesnt fits or at least I couldnt find a solution in this community or in Internet. Our director wants to delegate access to his assistant including inbox but shouldnt be able read encrypted emails Is there a solution for this? Thanks for your support...
RAID Array / Disk Performance with Bitlocker - unexpected results
I've doing some testing on a system to identify the impact that Bitlocker Encryption has on the read/write performance and the results have been interesting to say the least; I'm hoping someone can help to explain my findings. I'm using an entry level server with quad core Xeon E-2224 CPU and 16GB RAM which has Windows Sever 2016 Standard installed - and it's a totally fresh Windows install with all of the latest relevant drivers are installed. My storage array is configured through the integrated controller on the motherboard and is across 4 x 10TB WD Enterprise disks configured as follows: RAID Level RAID5 Legacy Disk Geometry (C/H/S) 65535/255/32 Strip Size 64 KiB Full Stripe Size 192 KiB Disk 0 WDC WD102KRYZ-0 Disk 1 WDC WD102KRYZ-0 Disk 2 WDC WD102KRYZ-0 Disk 3 WDC WD102KRYZ-0 I've provisioned a single large logical volume and I've created two partitions for my testing as follows: Drive Capacity File System Allocation Unit Size Y: 100 GB NTFS 4096 bytes Z: 25,600 GB NTFS 8192 bytes I ran an array of tests (results attached) on the volumes before encryption, then reformatted and encrypted the volumes and same tests again. The results have been very interesting, I was expecting to see a small performance hit across all tests due to Bitlocker, but what I found was that some tests had a drastic performance decrease, in some cases up to 50%, and surprisingly some tests showed an increase in performance, in one case an increase of 60%. Can anyone help to explain this? I'm thinking of running the tests again with another product to see if I get similar results, but what I'm using is fairly robust/reliable from my experience. Findings are in the spreadsheet attached.Where and how are the Outlook Message Encryption templates managed?
We have Microsoft 365 Business Premium licenses. Within Outlook, when you create a new email and go to the Options tab, there is an Encrypt button with the following options; Encrypt-Only, Do Not Forward, Confidential - All Employees, and Highly Confidential - All Employees. I want to see if I can create some specific ones for certain use cases but I'll be damned if I can find where these are set. I would also like to find out the specific restrictions each of these puts in place. I can distinctly remember messing around with message encryption templates a year (or more) ago but fast forward to today and everything seems to be retired or replaced or moved and I can't for the life of me locate where these email encryption templates are located. The MS docs are all over the place and searching for things in the Azure portal pull up nothing (or old docs that aren't current anymore). I know labels are now a big thing and maybe I missed migrating these encryption templates to labels? (in my searches I've seen ARM then Azure Information Protection which seems to be replaced by Rights Management Service and then talk about labels...)
