Cyber Security Landscape

In today's age of increasing cyber security threats, we are on a never-ending quest to increase our personal and corporate security. We add multifactor authentication (MFA) to all our password-based logins to lock them down. We try to use different passwords across all our web portals so that we will avoid being fully compromised if one of our passwords is leaked to the dark web or phished from a malicious email campaign.

ExpressRoute overview
Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute lets you extend your on-premises networks into the Microsoft cloud over a private connection facilitated by a connectivity provider. With ExpressRoute, you can establish connections to Microsoft cloud services, such as Microsoft Azure, Office 365, and Dynamics 365.

Connectivity can be from an any-to-any (IPVPN) network, a point-to-point Ethernet network, or a virtual cross-connection through a connectivity provider at a co-location facility.

Printer Redirection is a feature that allows a local printer to be mapped to a remote machine, and allows printing across a network. Invalid, unusable redirected printers may appear in a Remote Desktop Services session causing slowness.
Problem:
Over time, Terminal Servers and RemoteApp servers can build a long list of redirected printers.

If you follow the news you have probably already heard of the Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities affecting a large portion of the processors used in computers, tablets and smartphones. But you may be asking yourself, what are they really? Am I at risk? What can I do about it?

 
What are Meltdown and Spectre?
No, they aren't James Bond movies (technically one of them was). Meltdown is an exploit that allows attacks to bypass the layer between applications and hardware to access the computer's memory.

Office 365 is the ideal productivity tool for small-and medium-sized businesses. Not only is it a cost-effective solution but Microsoft continues to add value to its
bundled offerings.  During Microsoft’s Inspire conference they announced even more applications to be added to its bundled Business tier.

So you just got a call from one of your clients telling you that they received a strange e-mail from you with an attachment.  You know you haven't e-mailed them in days.  What could be going on?  You check your sent mail folder and to your surprise there are hundreds of sent messages to everyone in your contact list.