Get a Sneak Peek into the Advanced Windows Security Course!

Over the years, the Advanced Windows Security Course has amassed hundreds of satisfied students, building a supportive community of cybersecurity enthusiasts and rising talents. We repeat it yearly, each time brainstorming to deliver the freshest techniques for combating cyber threats. As a result, the formula just keeps getting better. At CQURE Academy, our Experts consolidate […]
Hacks Weekly #60 – PetitPotam Strikes Back: From (almost) Zero to Domain Admin

PetitPotam: How an NTLM relay attack can threaten Active Directory, Active Directory Certificate Services and your network PetitPotam is an advanced coercing attack and in combination with NTLM relay (NTLM redirection) attack it creates a serious threat to Active Directory (AD) infrastructures. By exploiting vulnerabilities in the EFS (Encrypted File System) RPC calls, PetitPotam can […]
Back to Basics: Identity Protection in Azure Active Directory

Identity Protection is a security feature in Azure Active Directory that helps to prevent, detect, and remediate identity risk in an organization. Using multiple detections, it monitors every login for identity compromise, sorting sign-ins into three categories of risk: low, medium, and high. These risk ratings can be used to create automated user risk policies […]
Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA) vs. Service Accounts. How to use them?

Learn how to extract passwords from the service accounts and how to implement gMSA (group Managed Service Accounts) in order to manage the identity of services correctly.
Cybersecurity Talk With Raymond Comvalius: Between On-Premises And In The Cloud. We Find Out Which Active Directory Is Safer

If your goal is to become a cybersecurity expert, that’s definitely a place to be. This time I’m with Raymond Comvalius. We are going to talk about, among others, active directory and the cloud. Thank you for coming. Raymond C.: Thank you for inviting me. Paula J.: Thank you. And just a couple of words […]
How we helped keep an alleged “hacker” out of 70 years in prison

Thanks to the great work of the case attorney Simone Bertollini and CQURE’s team and our pretty amazing know-how this is the first hacking case in history that was WON by the defenders! “The CQURE Team identified serious flaws in the government’s investigation. They helped me do justice for Gasperini” – stated Simone Bertollini. Learn […]
“Anyone can get hacked” – Forbes Interview with Paula Januszkiewicz

Forbes interview with Paula Januszkiewicz How hackers choose the bright or the dark side, what the global cybersecurity community thinks about the Russian hackers and how to become one yourself. Hackers are conventionally divided into “white” and “black”: the first legally check IT systems, the second break into them to steal information. Forbes spoke to Paula […]
[IGNITE ’18] Up Close with the Experts – Paula J’s Interview with Jeffrey Snover
Jeffrey Snover is a Technical Fellow at Microsoft and the Chief Architect for the Enterprise Cloud Group which includes Azure Stack, Windows Server, System Center, and Operations Management Suite. Snover is the inventor of Windows PowerShell, an object-based distributed automation engine, scripting language, and command line shell. Snover joined Microsoft in 1999 as divisional […]
[IGNITE ’18] Up Close with the Experts – Paula J’s Interview with Corey Sanders

Corey Sanders is the Corporate Vice President of Azure. He has been a member of the Azure team for 9 years and Microsoft for 14 years. Previously, Corey has been responsible for the engineering and business of compute, which included Windows VMs, Linux VMs, Service Fabric, Event Hub, Service Bus, Batch Computing, and the […]
[IGNITE ’18] Up Close with the Experts – Paula J’s Interview with Jeremy Winter

Jeremy Winter is Microsoft’s Director of Azure Management. Previously, he held a position of the Principal Group Program Manager and was responsible for the System Center portfolio within the Enterprise Cloud division. Jeremy started as a developer, moved to running operations for Hotmail, and then switched to program management for Azure Management and Security. He and his teams […]