Author: Harri Jaakkonen

Microsoft Entra ID Governance

Licensing Advanced Identity governance has now a new license set and you can acquire it as a addon called Step Up. Some older functionalities still live inside P1 and P2 licensing models. Here the list of feature available only from…

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Section 14 – Use Microsoft Sentinel workbooks to analyze and interpret data

Activate and customize Microsoft Sentinel workbook templates When we are talking about templates, it’s important to see the following information, you will see this inside your Sentinel workspace. Once you Click on Continue, it will start the migration and show…

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Security Service Edge (SSE) in a secure access service edge Framework (SSA)

In this post I will cover two different providers for SSE and in my opinion these are the top notch ones. Let’s me explain why and then you disagree or agree, just giving my opinion. But first let’s see what…

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Entra ID CA Templates are now Generally Available!

When it was still in Public preview, I wrote this post on it. Templates available So, let’s see what has changed. These are the templates that are currently available, no change here. The process of Exporting You can download policies…

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Section 13 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel – Manage Microsoft Sentinel incidents

Triage incidents in Microsoft Sentinel What is Triaging? The SOC’s initial level is triaging. Triaging incoming security situations and assessing their seriousness are the responsibilities of Tier 1 employees. This entails figuring out the incident’s origin, estimating its size, and…

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Section 13 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel – Configure Security Orchestration, Automation, and Response (SOAR)

13th section starting and this time were are learning on automation, alerts and remediation. Configure automation rules By centrally managing automation rules for event management, users may streamline complicated incident orchestration procedures. Automation rules are triggered by the creation of…

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Proactive migration of legacy MFA and SSPR policy settings to Authentication methods

Why to? For now policy settings can be moved at your own pace but the procedure is completely reversible. While you specifically specify authentication methods for users and groups in the Authentication methods policy, you can continue to employ tenant-wide…

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Cross-tenant synchronization is now Generally available

Microsoft’s Cross-tenant features When it comes to the cross-tenant access features, Microsoft has a strong road plan so far. There won’t be any more external users or jumping between Teams tenants when you require access to various tenants, which we…

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Section 12 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel – Perform data classification and normalization

12th section starting with more Sentinel. This time we are classifying Entities, creating custom log in Log Analytics and parsing the content. So let’s do some designs and configurations. Classify and analyze data by using entities You can do the…

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Microsoft Entra External ID’s (Preview)

Or Azure AD for customers, yes Azure AD for customers. That’s the name of the game. Microsoft released this excellent feature at Build yesterday and I wanted to elaborate it a bit more. Why to use it? Azure AD makes…

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