darren siegel

Darren Siegel

Active Directory
Compliance
Password Management

Darren Siegel is a cyber security expert at Specops Software. He works as a lead IT engineer, helping organizations solve complex challenges within IT security. Darren has more than 15 years’ experience within Active Directory, IT security, servers, storage, virtualization, cloud, and identity and access management.

Articles written by Darren Siegel

  • Specops Authentication enrollment data in Active Directory

    The Specops Authentication cloud platform is unique in that user data is stored in the customer’s on-prem Active Directory database. Usernames, passwords, and enrollment data/proofs for the various Identity Services provided by Specops Authentication are stored in the customer’s Active…

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  • Troubleshooting user account permissions – AdminSDHolder

    Specops Password Reset, Specops Password Sync, uReset, and Specops Authentication all use low privilege service accounts in Active Directory.  When you add an OU or OUs to your management scope, we delegate extremely granular permissions for our service account to…

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  • Regular Expressions for Passphrases

    As a follow up to our Regular Expressions for password complexity blog post, we’ll look at some of the more interesting things you can do with regular expressions. These are typically (but not necessarily) used in organizations using passphrase and…

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  • Regular Expressions for password complexity

    Specops Password Policy contains a number of granular complexity, history, and dictionary requirements for passwords and utilizes basic C.  However, we cannot always anticipate every customer’s unique password requirements.  In order to give our customers the flexibility to set unique…

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  • Using Firefox Enterprise GPO’s to Enable Windows Integrated Authentication to Specops Websites

    Mozilla recently launched Firefox 60, which now includes official support for configuration via Active Directory Group Policies.  For customers using Specops uReset, Specops Authentication, or Specops Password Reset, this means you can now set up your Firefox users to take…

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