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

Apr

24

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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Apr

17

Specops Authentication Client and Duo Authentication for Windows Login

The Specops Authentication Client provides enhancements to the Windows logon experience by wrapping the built-in Windows credential provider (GINA). This includes allowing users to reset their passwords from the login screen, as well as enhancing the feedback users receive when…
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Nov

27

TEST – How to check password complexity requirements in Active Directory Copy

Active Directory password policies are not always what they seem – often there are discrepancies on settings such as password length, password complexity, maximum password age, or long-forgotten Fine-Grained Password Policies configured in the domain. In this blog post we will…
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Oct

01

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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Jun

08

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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May

23

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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May

14

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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