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Enterprise Certificate Pinning in Windows 10 Creators Update

Now more than ever, organizations are becoming increasingly more concern with man-in-the-middle...

Author: Mike Stephens [MS] Date: 04/17/2017

Null and Empty Discretionary Access Controls

This is a past investigation I shared on another blog years ago.  Security descriptors seem like a...

Author: Mike Stephens [MS] Date: 04/13/2017

Hello world!

It only seems fitting to begin anything in IT with the ever familiar "Hello world".   The birth and...

Author: Mike Stephens [MS] Date: 03/26/2017

Every so often, I’ll talk with a customer wanting to deploy a legal notice to their workstations...

Author: Mike Stephens [MS] Date: 02/08/2008

Security Policy Settings and User Account Control

User Account Control in Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista requires all users run in a standard...

Author: Mike Stephens [MS] Date: 01/31/2008