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Microsoft 365 Tenant Sync

Leonard Nelson — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 00:15:37 +0000

Microsoft365DSC is an Open-Source initiative lead by Microsoft engineers and maintained by the community. It allows you to write a definition for how your Microsoft 365 tenant should be configured, automate the deployment of that configuration and ensures the monitoring of the defined configuration, notifying and acting on detected configuration drifts. It also allows you to extract a full-fidelity configuration out of any existing Microsoft 365 tenant. The tool covers all major Microsoft 365 workloads such as Exchange Online, Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive, Security and Compliance, Power Platforms, Intune and Planner. 365DSC helps:

Automate Configuration Changes
Take Configuration Snapshots of Existing Microsoft 365 Tenants
Monitor your Microsoft 365 Tenant configuration
Compare the Configurations of Two or More Tenants

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AI Tools Directory

Leonard Nelson — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 02:22:44 +0000

Access the largest list of top-quality AI tools available on the web using Aixploria.

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Travel

Leonard Nelson — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 19:46:00 +0000

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. – St. Augustine

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2024 State of AI Report

Leonard Nelson — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 22:16:00 +0000

The State of AI Report, now in its seventh year, has been released. This year’s report includes an overview of the following areas:

Research: Technology breakthroughs and their capabilities.
Industry: Areas of commercial application for AI and its business impact.
Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.
Safety: Identifying and mitigating catastrophic risks that highly-capable future AI systems could pose to us.
Predictions: What the team believes will happen in the next 12 months and a 2023 performance review.

Summarizing some items from the Executive Summary:

OpenAI maintains its edge following the launch of o1
US sanctions fail to stop Chinese LLMs rising up community leaderboards.
NVIDIA remains the most powerful company in the world
National and regional AI regulation has continued to advance, with controversial legislation passing in the US and EU.
Researchers are increasingly concerned with more sophisticated long-term attacks.

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How to Add or Remove Passwords from Multiple PDFs

Leonard Nelson — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 22:14:00 +0000

Stumbled on a post that was helpful with a recent need with adding/removing passwords from multiple PDFs. Follow the steps below:

Step 1: Configure the Run Action Option

Open Adobe Acrobat Pro and go to the Menu.
Select Preferences.
In the Preferences window, find and click Action Wizard.
Check the box for Show the Run Action Confirmation dialog box.
Under Security Method, select Password Security to ensure that you’ll be prompted for the password when starting the batch.
Click OK to save these preferences.

Step 2: Complete the Action e.g., Adding Passwords Using Guided Actions

Go back to the main menu and click See all tools …
Scroll down and under the Prepare section, click Open Use Guided Actions.
In the lower left hand corner section for Add and Manage Actions, click Actions and choose New Action.
In the New Action setup:
- Go to Protection.
- Click Encrypt and the arrow to add this action
- Click Specify Settings and set the Security Method to Password Security to enable a password, or None if you want to disable passwords
Click Save and give this action a name like “Enable PDF Passwords”
Run the newly saved action
Click Add files to add the PDF files you wish to secure/disable password.
When you run the action, Acrobat will ask for a password if the files are protected and prompt you to save each file as a new copy.

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Detecting and Mitigating Active Directory Compromises

Leonard Nelson — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:14:51 +0000

The Australian Signals Directorate Australian Cyber Security Centre (ASD ACSC), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and other U.S. and international partners released the joint guide Detecting and Mitigating Active Directory Compromises. This guide informs organizations of recommended strategies to mitigate common techniques used by malicious actors to compromise Active Directory.

Download: Detecting and Mitigating Active Directory Compromises

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CISA Cybersecurity Performance Goals

Leonard Nelson — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 14:19:53 +0000

CISA has released a great resource called Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPG) that outline a common set of protections that all organization could benefit from review and implementation to meaningfully reduce the likelihood and impact of known risks and adversary techniques.

For the current version of the report, visit CISA Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPG) Report, and for an actionable checklist to review and track the goals, visit CISA Cybersecurity Performance Goals Checklist.

[Archived Copy of Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPG) Checklist]

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Terms of Service Summary

Leonard Nelson — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 15:11:52 +0000

Forgot to read the terms of service for a service you registered for recently? Want a brief and quick summary of how a service provider is handling your data? Check out ToS;DR, a website that takes an approach of adding transparency and simplicity to the terms of service that you agree to when setting up an account.

TOSDR assigns a grade based on fairness of terms for users:

Grade A are the best terms of services: they treat you fairly, respect your rights and will not abuse your data.

Grade B The terms of services are fair towards the user but they could be improved.

Grade C The terms of service are okay but some issues need your consideration.

Grade D The terms of service are very uneven or there are some important issues that need your attention.

Grade E The terms of service raise very serious concerns.

No Grade Yet

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Inclusive Design in Information Security

Leonard Nelson — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 11:20:59 +0000

In the spirit of James Clear’s Atomic Habits and tiny changes leading to remarkable results, here’s a reminder around usability and design in your security brand. We’re about six months away from what is typically a busy month of focus in cyber security awareness. Now’s a good time to revisit this Persona Spectrum image from the folks at Microsoft Design that serves as a quick tool to ensure our security and technology messaging caters to a spectrum of permanent, temporary, and situational scenarios. Have you revisited your department’s messaging, giveaways, training material, websites, interactive content etc. to confirm it’s still connecting with your organization from this lens?

For more reading and the image source visit Microsoft’s Inclusive Design Guidebook.

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Attention to Detail is the Winning Attitude

Leonard Nelson — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 16:42:42 +0000

A great read on how Mercedes-AMG Petronas, or Mercedes, for short, has managed to dominate F1 over the past decade showed up in Harvard Business Review’s Number One in Formula One:

Wolff is a self-admitted stickler for even the smallest details. He told me that when he first visited the Mercedes team’s factory, in Brackley, England, he walked into the lobby and sat down to wait for the team principal he would come to replace. “On the table were a crumpled Daily Mail newspaper from the week before and two old paper coffee cups,” Wolff recalled. “I went up to the office to meet him, and at the end of our conversation I said, ‘I look forward to working together. But just one thing—that reception area doesn’t say “F1,” and that’s where it needs to start if we want to win.’ He said, ‘It’s the engineering that makes us win,’ and I replied, ‘No, it’s the attitude. It all starts with an attention to detail.’”

Key Themes/Takeaways for Leaders

Set the Highest Standards—for Everyone
Put People Front and Center
Analyze Mistakes—Even When Winning
Foster an Open, No-Blame Culture
Trust Superstars but Maintain Authority
Relentlessly Battle Complacency

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