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  Here's a scary word for you! If you are squeamish, you may want to look away. Now that you've been warned I am going to tell you the word: Passwordless BOO. Scary right? Well, you won't believe how many people actually think the worst of this word and do not realize what it actually means or what it entails. There's more to Passwordless than meets the eye, in which we'll talk about in this post. Here's how you can begin adopting passwordless in your organization! What is Passwordless? Passwordless authentication can be simplified into a singular idea: remove the password from the equation. As cybersecurity evolves and now with the rise of quantum computing, passwords are becoming obsolete. The only problem is that passwords are still the norm for a variety of systems, which introduces a barrier to adoption. This is just one of several barriers that prevent organizations from adopting passwordless authentication, with other reasons consisting of (but not limite...

  Hey there! Hope that this post finds you doing well this New Year. You may be asking yourself: "what's the news on the cyber range you're building"? I wanted to take a short break from that and introduce a side-quest I've been working on stemming from an issue I ran into when I first created my range: How do I create realistic users without having to add each one? You could start adding each one manually, and spend all day filling in each detail. Or, you can be like me and spend two months trying to automate the process! The goal here was to remove the typical constraints that bulk user creation can have and allow for realism in the sandbox, not just filler. I wanted a script that can fill out the details that the admin wants, and apply it against either Active Directory or Entra. Thus, BAESL was born! BAESL (Bulk AD Entra Sandbox Loader) is a PowerShell suite of tools that provides administrators and developers a way to inject realistic user objects into their ...