Category: Desktop

Active Directory, Desktop, Server

Certificate Requirements for Setting up AD FS (Active Directory Federation Services)

Certificate Requirements for Setting up AD FS During my recent evaluation of AD FS, I have gone through various articles but there wasn’t any clear mention or details about how the certificates be configured for AD FS.  Here is my attempt to share all of my learning and how I got it setup working.  I found the relevant MS article after I got whole of my setup done, it doesn’t show up in the search results 🙁 Environment: Windows Server 2012 AD FS 3.0 (which comes as default in server 2012 OS) Domain Functional Level: Windows Server 2008 R2 AD […]

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DataBase, Desktop, Scripting

Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) Reporting: SQL Stored Procedure to Generate Monthly Reports

It’s the security officers responsibility to overview the firm’s infrastructure risk exposure and trends in real time. Unfortunately, none of the industry leading security products has a feature to create a consolidated risk report that can help the top security officers to review and keep track with risk events. As I’ve great exposure into SEP DB schema, I’ve developed a SQL query that generates a consolidated report in a high level format classifying the risk events into below categories: [code language=”sql”] if user name matches *admin*, report it as "Admin account access" if user name matches "system", report it as […]

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Desktop, Repackaging, Windows Technologies

Viewing and Analyzing the Executables (.exe)/Console Applications developed in .Net without Source Code

Most of the .Net developers would probably know, how to view or analyze a third party console application that is developed in .Net.  This capability/skill would be required for various other roles like application re-packagers/integrators and Security Analysts/Researchers, etc.,.  Here I’d be briefing about how to view the compiled Intermediate Language (IL) (Microsoft calls as a managed code) code of any executable (.exe application) that is developed in .Net. Microsoft provides a tool named Ildasm.exe (Microsoft Windows Intermediate Language (IL) disassembler).  This tools shipd along with the .Net developer IDE Visual Studio and you can have this downloaded from Microsoft.  […]

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