IT & security playbooks

A modern password policy that follows NIST SP 800-63B

Length over complexity, no forced rotation, breach screening, and rate-limiting. The evidence-based policy that replaces the composition rules everyone still copies from 2005.

RBAC, least privilege, and joiner-mover-leaver

Access is a lifecycle, not a one-time grant. How to design roles, enforce least privilege, wrap privileged access in PAM, and make deprovisioning automatic rather than aspirational.

Deploying phishing-resistant MFA across the org

Not all MFA is equal. How to roll out FIDO2 / WebAuthn and passkeys at scale, rank your factors by real-world strength, handle enrollment and recovery, and retire SMS.

Choosing and deploying an enterprise password manager

Selection criteria, architecture, rollout, and the governance that turns a vault from a personal convenience into a managed control, including secrets for machines, not just people.

Email authentication: SPF, DKIM, and DMARC with alignment

How the three records fit together, why alignment is the part that actually stops spoofing, and a staged path to an enforcing DMARC policy without breaking legitimate mail.

MDM and endpoint hardening: a baseline

The device-side controls that make identity and MFA trustworthy: enrollment, disk encryption, patch enforcement, configuration baselines, compliance-gated access, and remote wipe.

Certificate management and PQC readiness

An operational PKI you can actually reason about: inventory, automated issuance and renewal, short lifetimes, and building the crypto-agility that a post-quantum transition will demand.

Key management with KMS and HSM, built for agility

The lifecycle of a cryptographic key (generation, storage, rotation, revocation, destruction) done with KMS and HSMs, and architected so algorithms can change without rewrites.

Monitoring and enforcing identity policy

Policy on paper is not a control. How to detect credential attacks, audit access continuously, and enforce configuration automatically so drift and abuse surface fast.

Containing account takeover the right way

Resetting the password is not enough: attackers persist through sessions, tokens, app passwords, and MFA methods. The full containment playbook for a compromised credential.

Identity policy templates and rollout checklists

Adaptable starting points (a password and authentication policy outline, an access-management policy, and a phased rollout checklist) grounded in the standards, ready to tailor.