We're a little over a month out from Microsoft's upcoming MFA mandate. On October 5th, 2024, the Entra Admin Center, Intune Admin Center, and Azure portal will finally mandate multifactor authentication. This means that, regardless of your tenant settings, you will be...
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Microsoft is Turning On Your Security Defaults – You Should Leave It That Way!
If you're a global administrator in a Microsoft tenant, you might have (or soon will) receive an email that reads something like this: You’re receiving this email because you’re a global administrator for [tenant name]. To help protect your organization, we’re always...
When should I use certificate authentication?
With Microsoft announcing Certificate Based Auth general availability, it's a fair question. Certificate Authentication is nothing new, native support for CBA in Azure AD is very new, and it's very easy to setup. You simply trust your certificate authority with Azure...
Conditional Access Templates are Coming in Hot
One of the bigger challenges with Conditional Access is baselining your security templates. As Microsoft so eloquently put it, Identity is the New Battleground, so we must set baselines everywhere. After much waiting, Microsoft is rolling out templatized, best...
Modern Security Baby Steps: Mobile Application Management
Implementing MAM is one simple step that you can take for a quick security gain! It will help ensure that data on untrusted devices is at least controlled and protected.