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Reading Time: 3 minutesApplication Portfolio Management (APM) is a strategic discipline for managing an enterprise’s software applications as a portfolio of assets. The Gartner TIME Model is the industry-standard framework for this process, enabling organizations to make data-driven decisions to optimize costs, reduce risk, and align IT investments with business objectives.
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe modern enterprise faces a critical challenge: the increasing complexity of cloud-native technologies imposes a significant cognitive load on developers, hindering productivity and slowing innovation.
Reading Time: 4 minutesA database migration must be treated as a strategic business transformation, not just a technology project.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis document provides a condensed blueprint for establishing a security metrics program focused on driving organizational maturity.
Reading Time: 3 minutesStatus: Final Blueprint Author: Shahab Al Yamin Chawdhury Organization: Principal Architect & Consultant Group Research Date: January 9, 2022 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Version: 1.0 Executive Summary The Enterprise Architect (EA) is a pivotal strategic role that integrates business strategy with Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutesStatus: Final Blueprint Summary Author: Shahab Al Yamin Chawdhury Organization: Principal Architect & Consultant Group Research Date: February 22, 2024 Location: Dhaka, Bangladesh Version: 1.0 1. The Strategic Imperative for Integrated Resilience The modern business landscape demands a proactive, integrated Read More …
Reading Time: 4 minutesStatus: Final Blueprint (Summary) Author: Shahab Al Yamin Chawdhury Organization: Principal Architect & Consultant Group Research Date: October 10, 2022 Version: 1.0 1. Executive Summary The modern enterprise runs on open-source software (OSS), which creates a vast and unmanaged attack Read More …
Reading Time: 5 minutes1. Executive Summary This document provides a deep-dive analysis into the global Managed Detection and Response (MDR) market. It outlines current and emerging trends, analyzes adoption drivers and challenges, and offers a strategic blueprint for service providers and enterprises. The Read More …
Reading Time: 7 minutesThis document outlines the architectural blueprint for an AI-driven system designed to proactively predict burnout and resignation risk among technical employees. The attrition of skilled technical talent represents a significant and escalating cost to our organization, encompassing recruitment expenses, productivity Read More …
Reading Time: 5 minutes1. Introduction The Azure Reliability Maturity Model is a framework designed to help organizations assess and improve the reliability of their workloads running on Azure. It provides a structured path for continuous improvement, moving from reactive problem-solving to proactive, automated, Read More …
Reading Time: 4 minutesOverview To conduct a deep-dive investigation into the principles, practices, and challenges of identifying, tracking, and analyzing malicious actor activities within a corporate network. This document will culminate in a comprehensive, interactive report designed for C-suite executives, IT security leadership, Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutesImage source: Security Adoption Resources | Microsoft Learn Traditional security models that rely on a fortified perimeter are no longer enough. With the rise of remote work, cloud applications, and increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, organizations need a more dynamic and Read More …
Reading Time: 8 minutesSIEM sizing is all about estimating the resources your Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system that needs to handle log data efficiently—without overprovisioning or underestimating. The two key metrics used are: To calculate SIEM sizing, you typically keep the Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn a typical Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack, attackers impersonate trusted individuals or organizations to deceive employees into taking harmful actions like transferring funds or sharing sensitive information. This involves research, email manipulation, and often social engineering tactics to exploit Read More …
Reading Time: 9 minutesImage Source: https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication500-292.pdf Cloud computing has become an integral part of modern IT infrastructure, enabling enterprises to achieve scalability, efficiency, and agility. This paper discusses the Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCRA), including its key adoption requirements, standard bodies of knowledge Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutesEmphasizing on the technology requirements, implementation challenges, and platform security management: Image Source: Transportation | ITS Intelligent Transportation Solutions Overview The Automatic Car Toll System (ACTS) is an innovative solution aimed at streamlining toll collection processes for highways and bridges. Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutes1. Introduction With the increasing threats to online security, securing personal blogs is not just about maintaining content integrity but also ensuring protection against cyberattacks and compliance with global data privacy laws. This paper explores essential security mechanisms and compliance Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutesA mind map for Extended Detection and Response (XDR) can help visualize the components and concepts involved in XDR security solutions. This can be useful for understanding the scope, capabilities, and integration points of XDR, as well as for planning and implementing Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutesBackground: with an increasing demand for reliable internet services in Bangladesh, a twenty years ofd ISP aimed to differentiate itself by providing high-quality, affordable services while ensuring efficient operations and scalability. To achieve these goals, Enterprise Architecture (EA) was implemented Read More …
Reading Time: 5 minutesThe Azure Well-Architected Framework (WAF) encompasses five essential tenets that guide solution architects in building robust and efficient workloads on Microsoft Azure: These tenets collectively provide a strong foundation for designing and operating workloads on Azure, ensuring they deliver business value over time. Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutesHave you ever encountered the following questions asked by your superiors or you peers? How to manage cloud security posture management for OpenStack? There are hefty of items that you can think of, but lets focus on the top high Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroduction Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing cloud security by enhancing threat detection, automating responses, and providing greater visibility into cloud environments. This concept paper explores the impact of AI on cloud security, use case scenarios, steps for adopting AI, component Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutesQUOTED FROM THE VIDEO from YouTube by Adrian Grigoriu “The ITOOF, or IT Operation and Organization Framework, is an IT Service Management (ITSM) framework designed to help plan, build, organize, and describe the organization and operation of an IT department. Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the context of enterprise architecture, Architecture Building Blocks (ABBs) and Solution Building Blocks (SBBs) are key concepts used in the TOGAF Architecture Development Method (ADM) for designing and implementing systems. Source: Building Blocks (opengroup.org) ABBs are packages of functionality Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe below picture illustrates operational architecture of the SIEM & SOAR in an integrated function: This is where the big picture comes in, from ingress to egress. As you can see in the picture the data collectors need to be configured in Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutesA disaster recovery plan (DRP) is a strategy that helps organizations recover their IT systems and data after a disruptive event, such as a natural disaster, a cyberattack, or a human error. A disaster recovery plan is important because it Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEver wondered, how you could find out the installation dates of your laptop/desktops operating system? Well for starters there are couple of ways you can do it. Instruction follows: 1st Way: Type the following command in the Command Prompt C:\systeminfo Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI have created this file long back and still am using it. Primary focus was to provide general user/technical users a standard laptop/desktop so that IT could manage these devices centrally rather having to cater to personal choices and end Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis document is prepared for official needs, and is proven to be vital where a new or growing company needs to standardize their internal laptop’s OS. We were to choose a standardized OS that needs to be put in, into Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteBelow is the complete diagram for an organization for 500 users. This design includes the following Microsoft Services: Page-1: Complete Design Topology Page-2: Exchange Server 2013 Design Topology with DAG Page-3: Lync Server 2013 Design Topology with PSTN Page-4: Active Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently an organization requested to perform a quick asset management (inventory) along with some reports from the SCCM 2012 R2 I’ve recently deployed. More than 2500 devices were enrolled in a period of a month. and by default: we have Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’s a rather small & interesting post regarding searching files by it’s modified date. To some extent this knowledge became essential when people are handling too many office files. So, on a specific date how do you search for modified Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteDNS resource records can be used to provide DNS-based data about computers on a TCP/IP network. Well I don’t know if there is a network other than TCP/IP network, other than the internal isolated lab network for engineering purposes. Anyway, Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutesSystem File Checker (SFC) is a command-line tool that scans all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with correct versions. This tool originally built for Windows 2000!, and all GA editions were shipped with it. In other words, SFC Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was actually looking up for the Service Tag of my DELL E 6410 machine. At the back of the laptop panel the sticker has already worn out, and I started browsing the TechNet. Now, I found the WMIC (Windows Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutesI really got amazed or even startled that the first boot Windows Server presented a command line, along with the server manager. I closed the server manager console; and got stuck 🙂 with the command line only. Laughed for couple Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutesFirst you need to check if the following items are there in your laptop/server TPM Chip Windows 7 Enterprise or Higher (Ultimate with or without N) Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise or Higher You can achieve BitLocker encryption introduced into Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe default DNS port is 53. You can view the dynamic port range on a computer that is running Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008 computer by using the following netsh commands: netsh int ipv4 show dynamicport tcp netsh int Read More …
Reading Time: 3 minutesMicrosoft has a tool and it’s so easy to make an ISO file to be transferred to a USB drive using the tool. It will readily create a USB bootable OS. Now download the file from the following link: Windows Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteHere is the script for shutting down a Virtual Machine. Have a close look in the script and look for change needed, like your virtual machine name, exit reasons etc. This script is tested under Win2k8 and Win2k8R2 Environment. Thanks Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEver realized that Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 has the PowerShell feature that can be run from Web Browser? YES it has that feature. Following is a screenshot of that: Now first thing you have to do Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA two factor authentication requires a domain username and then followed by a password, and afterwards a Certificate PIN or RSA PIN or similar or identical featured access types. Now in Windows Servers, implementing a Smart Card feature or a Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe following command would give you some serious level of statistics that can also be daunting for you 🙂 Get-MailboxDatabase <Database-Name> | FL The right side of the result is omitted, but focus on the left side of it, what Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI needed these for an SCCM deployment to some CBS (Core Banking Software) front-end software installation testing and it gave me hard time to find all of these at one go. I had to run these through multiple search engines Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteEver curious about blocking users attachments from their mails? In their handheld devices? Run the following command to check if the policy is set or not as a default option for all mail boxes under Exchange Server. Get-ActiveSyncMailboxPolicy And since Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis brief solution document focuses on the deployment options regarding Lync 2010 in two physical servers. Hardware and Software Sizing as well as configuration are reflected within this document. This document also released in the Article section of this blog. Read More …
Reading Time: 2 minutesNumber One – Hardware: Is your hardware ready for the AD? How good are your sizing for this? Are they (PDC, BDC) going to be virtualized or not? Well in my opinion theres no need for deploying a stand alone Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteA friend of mine requested this; as you might already know that Exchange Server 2013 can be installed on Winwk12R2 and also optimized. But none the less older versions of windows server do support Exchange 2013…and the list follows Exchange Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteAs a continual effort to let IT folks know that how these Exchange Server 2013 solution works, how to manage and maintain it. Microsoft released those video’s in the Channel9 site on October 2013. Content follows: Read More …
Reading Time: < 1 minuteADSI stands for “Active Directory Service Interfaces” Editor which lets you edit & manage Active Directory Objects and it’s attributes, while working for ADDS. Quoting from TechNet “ADSI Edit (adsiedit.msc) provides a view of every object and attribute in an Read More …