Set-NetIPsecMainModeCryptoSet: Enforce IKE Encryption in PowerShell
During a network security review for a logistics company we took over last year, we pulled their Windows Server 2025 IPsec policy and found the main mode crypto set negotiating…
IPsec Main Mode Crypto Sets: PowerShell Hardening Guide
A financial services client we took on last year had been running IPsec between their domain controllers and application servers for three years. Solid concept. The execution was a different…
PowerShell CimSession: Remote Network Cmdlets at Scale
Forty Servers, One Afternoon, One Script We got called in after a client’s previous MSP left them with no documentation and no standardized network adapter configuration across their server fleet.…
Get-NetAdapterRsc: Configure Receive Segment Coalescing in PowerShell
When Network Throughput Hits a Wall A financial services client called us last spring with a familiar complaint. Their Windows Server 2025 nodes were bleeding throughput under sustained traffic loads…
Docker Container Security: 15-Checkpoint Audit
It is 2:47 AM. Your SIEM fires a privilege escalation alert on a production Linux host. You pull the process tree and find the origin: a Docker container launched six…
Backup Encryption and Ransomware: A Post-Mortem
The alert came in at 2:47 AM. File shares encrypted. Domain controllers unreachable. The backup server — also encrypted. The client’s IT lead called it a total loss. Twenty minutes…
Windows Server Hardening: Stop Guessing, Start Baselining
Most Windows Servers Are One Misconfiguration Away From a Breach We inherited an environment last year where the client had been running Windows Server 2019 domain controllers with NTLMv1 still…
GitHub CI/CD Automation: Stop Deploying Like It’s 2012
The Problem Nobody Admits to Having A dev team we inherited during a client onboarding was doing manual deployments via FTP. In 2025. One guy held all the credentials. He’d…
DevSecOps Best Practices: A Pipeline Walkthrough
The Deployment That Shouldn’t Have Gone Live During an incident response engagement last year, we pulled the deployment logs for a mid-sized financial services company and found something that should…
Microsoft Teams Administration: Beyond the Admin Center
When the Admin Center Becomes a Liability A financial services client we support had a compliance audit scheduled for Q3. Their Teams environment had grown from a pandemic-era rollout of…