Good/Best Practices in Security

Passwords

Use Password Manager. No one can remember all the passwords.

Use unique passwords for your online services, eg. banking, e-mail, online shopping, gaming, social media,... If leak happen other accounts will be safe.

Authentication

Use two factor auth if it is possible. There is overview of avaliable services which supports 2FA. Do not rely on SMS as 2FA, if it is possible use Token. Use hard or soft token (better if you have to have more tokens).

Use Secure Protocols

HTTPs, POP3s, IMAPs, SSH,... because no one knows who is listening.

Your auth data could be stolen/intercept/...

When you are downloading/uploading data there is no evidence that other site is the right one. You have no proof (certificate, that the host is belonging to the organization).

PowerShell Best Practices

https://www.digitalshadows.com/blog-and-research/powershell-security-best-practices/

Office Pro Plus Enterprise Security

Admins of the Enterprise version of Office ProPlus can already take a number of specific measures to lower the privacy risks for employees and other people.

  • Apply the new zero-exhaust settings

  • Centrally prohibit the use of Connected Services

  • Centrally prohibit the option for users to send personal data to Microsoft to ‘improve Office’

  • Do not use SharePoint Oneline / OneDrive

  • Do not use the web-only version of Office 365

  • Periodically delete the Active Directory account of some VIP users, and create new accounts for them, to ensure that Microsoft deletes the historical diagnostic data

  • Consider using a stand-alone deployment without Microsoft account for confidential/sensitive data.

(Windows) Audit Policy Recommendations

Follow Microsoft recommendations on their docs to be up to date with current settings.

E-mail Protection

Make sure that your organisation implemented SPF, DKIM and DMARC in the right way. Messages originating from your domain can send only servers that are allowed to. No one else.

In case you need encryption use S/MIME or PGP/GPG.

Linux Hardening

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