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JumpCloud’s Perspective on July’s Global IT Outage

Our CEO, @rajat, has a new blog post up on our corporate blog. In it, he gives a list of immediate steps that organizations should take once they’ve fully brought all of their systems online.  Here are some excerpts from the article:  When we look ba...

BScott by Community Manager
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device security apps

Hi, Just trying out JumpCloud, working well so far. Only issue we have so far is struggling to find anything within the portal to restrict users installing software from the internet. Eg firefox, putty can run directly from Downloads. How are people ...

deano by Novitiate II
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Wazuh SIEM x JumpCloud

Hi Community ,Since JumpCloud does not notify on Directory Insights logs, Directory Insights can be integrated with any third-party SIEM tool as we already know.Wazuh is a free and open-source security platform that unifies XDR and SIEM protection fo...

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Directory Insight SIEM Integrations

Hey Folks,  As many of you might be wondering (or already asked ) about integrating SIEM solutions with JumpCloud logs - Directory Insights to be more specific, in order to centralise security event monitoring and management, @JuergenKlaassen had a w...

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shawnsong by Rising Star III
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U.S. National Cybersecurity Strategy

This news cycle has a big drop: the Biden admin's national cybersecurity strategy. A friend worked on it and had this to say: "The strategy establishes an affirmative, values-driven vision for a secure cyberspace that creates opportunities to achieve...

JCDavid by Iron II
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Diet Cola Compliance is Here

IT professionals oftentimes talk over the requirements of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMES) with a lot of jargon. Compliance (and laws punishing data breaches) are becoming increasingly widespread, so it's understandable that it's the topic d...

JCDavid by Iron II
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Encrypt additional drives on Ubuntu Desktop

Hi Folks, Pretty sure you came across this KB for enabling the full disk encryption on the root drive when installing Ubuntu, and utilising JC's Linux FDE policy to monitor the status.  But how about the additional drives on the box? These are not sh...

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shawnsong by Rising Star III
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Resolved! Giving Partial Admin Rights To Users

My company recently deployed jumpcloud for our endpoints and I was wondering if anyone knew of a way through jumpcloud to give partial admin rights to my users.  I do not want my users to reach out to me each time they need the admin password to add/...

blee145 by Novitiate I
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Become a Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion!

Every company should be hardening their employees against cyber attack. This is typically done through training and awareness campaigns. Creating the materials for an engaging campaign can be costly and time consuming. Aligning with national and inte...

nbushong by JumpCloud Alumni
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Hardening GSuite/365 Tenants

(Context: I work at an MSP, so this is not just a question for my own instance, I manage many of both of these.)Today on the IT Hour, there was a good chat about security practices (thanks Nicole!) and I was wondering if anyone had a good resource fo...

kelly by Novitiate III
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Looking to improve your overall security?

Whether you are starting out on your security journey or have already started, I have found the CIS website as a great place to start. They have excellent guidelines to help you out from operating systems to cloud environments.https://www.cisecurity....

Getting Started with the NIST Framework

If you are building up a new security program or improving upon an existing one, but you are not well verse in compliance - the NIST Framework can help provide a guide of what common controls should be in place.The NIST Framework was originally creat...

nbushong by JumpCloud Alumni
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SME Security Stack: Webinar 8.17.22 at 12pm ET

This is happening tomorrow, August 17 at 12pm ET. If you're interested in security: Learn how to think strategically about the SME Security Stack. To help you develop the right plan for your business, we have brought together a panel of industry-lead...

BScott by Community Manager
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Security as a ... Service?

With BlackHat going on this week, I can't help but think a little about security topics. We've talked a little about this topic in the past, but I keep going back to how hard it is for small companies to have dedicated security teams. Not when your I...

BScott by Community Manager
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Full Disk Encryption is a No-Brainer

Yesterday, I was assembling some notes on the benefits of having Full Disk Encryption (FDE) being available across all Linux distros. I awoke to a high severity CVE concerning OpenSSL, which is generally used to secure communications on the (OSI) tra...

JCDavid by Iron II
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Monitor JumpCloud with Datadog

Just saw this post from Datadog that allows you to monitor your JumpCloud environment using Datadog. I never got around to setting this up, only did SSO. Does anyone else use this?Monitor Your JumpCloud Directory With Datadog | Datadog (datadoghq.com...

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Cyber Insurance Audits

An old colleague just told me:"we actually got audited by our cyber security insurance provider and they enforced us to have MFA on literally everything. Down to the switches. It was huge pain in the a**."Have any of you ever faced challenges related...

JCDavid by Iron II
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