Brian Desmond
Brian is a principal at Ravenswood Technology Group where he leads a team of professionals focused on delivering best-in-breed consulting services for the Microsoft security and identity management ecosystem.
Brian has been recognized annually as a Microsoft MVP since 2003 and is the author of the fourth and fifth editions of Active Directory from O'Reilly.
Azure Active Directory Connect (AADC) installation creates a set of permissions that in most cases does not follow the concept of least privilege. [...]
If organizations don’t properly plan the synchronization solution for their cloud identities, which Microsoft calls Azure AD Connect, users will have poor experiences in the cloud. Because identity is central [...]
The size and complexity of the organization are critical factors when determining how and where to host FSMO roles. [...]
[PODCAST] The Real-World State of ITDR with Brian Desmond Everyone’s talking about Identity Threat Detection and Response (ITDR) – but what does that mean for people in the IT trenches? [...]
[WEBINAR] TEC Talk: Disaster Recovery Planning for Hybrid Identity In this webinar, Active Directory expert, Brian Desmond, shows you how to develop a baseline to prepare for traditional AD disasters [...]
[WEBINAR] 6 Ways to Increase Hybrid Active Directory Security As a result of aging IT systems and increased sophistication of hackers, threats to cybersecurity continue to be on the rise. [...]
When an identity from Active Directory (AD) is synchronized with a cloud-based identity platform such as Azure AD, those identities are classified as being hybrid. When user accounts are terminated [...]
Not all organizations require their own PKI solution; however, most leverage Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services because it integrates directly with their existing Active Directory environment... [...]
Not all organizations require their own PKI solution; however, most leverage Microsoft Active Directory Certificate Services because it integrates directly with their existing Active Directory environment... [...]
Digital certificates (most commonly represented by the X.509 public key certificate standard) are signed data objects that associate a public key with an individual user, device, or entity. In this [...]