This series of articles will explore the detailed process of setting up a cybersecurity home lab on a virtualization platform. Building a Cybersecurity lab offers a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on security experience, develop practical skills, and test cybersecurity tools. On a Virtualization Platform you can test and explore cybersecurity…
Read MoreMicrosoft Azure global infrastructure is built on two key components, a physical infrastructure and connective networking components. Physical infrastructure consists of physical datacenters where the data is stored, which are further grouped into regions. The networking components connects all the azure datacenters with each other with a low latency and…
Read MoreData Protection refers to security processes that makes sure the data is safe, weather the data is stored on Microsoft 365 servers (SharePoint site, email stored in mailbox) or if the data (email, file) is moving from one server to another server within Microsoft 365 data center. The purpose of…
Read MoreMailbox folder helps us organize data in the mailbox based on folder structure. Folders in the mailbox are used to store email messages, calendar items (meetings and appointments), contact and tasks. Folders can contain other folders (sub folder) inside the primary folder. Lets check how the folders are differentiated from…
Read MoreZero Trust is a security strategy and framework that follows the principle "Never Trust, Always Verify". It assumes that the request, user or device is not secured and should not be trusted by default, no matter if it is inside or outside organization's network perimeter. Zero Trust model continuously authenticate…
Read MoreEOP stands for Exchange Online Protection, it is a service (feature) in EXO. The MX record for Microsoft 365 tenant by default points to EOP and it that receives the email for the mailbox, scans the email for various email threats such as spam, malware, phish, spoof and delivers the…
Read MoreThe term Cloud refers to a Network of servers. In other words, we can say that Cloud is something, which is present at remote location. These servers can store and process the data, deliver the content (emails or any other data), hosts application or perform multiple other tasks. Cloud Service…
Read MoreDecoding or understanding to read email headers and its contents can help us troubleshoot multiple email related issues. Whenever we open any email, we tend to look at the sender, subject and the body of the email. But emails hold much more information beyond these elements. The email headers also…
Read MoreIn this article we will take a look at types of Outbound Mail Flow scenarios an organization can setup based on the different types of exchange environment. By default, Exchange Online Protection email sending servers will send all outbound emails to external recipients. When an administrator adds a custom domain…
Read MoreEmail authentication (email validation) is a process used to verify the legitimacy of the sender server and integrity of an email message. It establishes trust between senders and recipients by ensuring your identity of the sender is verified. Before discussing the email authentication methods, lets first discuss an important concept…
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Ashutosh Gawali