Category: Identity

Three tiers of protection explained with use cases

The above picture is from the CISSP material and domain 3 that talks about Security Architecture and Engineering but it could be from Microsoft material also. So what are the three layers of protection? At a high level Microsoft has…

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Azure AD guest users and how to manage them?

Well this is true for the digital society. Before it was your passwords you had to keep safe. Now the password doesn’t make a huge difference as it should be only the first stage of sign-in process and second would…

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AAD Identity protection and Hybrid Identity

In the past years Microsoft made some excellent improvements for securing the Identity. One of these features was Azure AD Identity Protection and it’s proxy version to allow your policies to flow inside on-premises AD. It uses the same kinda…

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Continuous Access Evaluation and working with tokens

Access, ID, and SAML2 ID tokens are JSON web tokens (JWT). These ID tokens consist of a header, payload, and signature. The header and signature are used to verify the authenticity of the token, while the payload contains the information about…

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Defender for Identity deep dive part 1 of 3

I decided to do a deep dive on Defender for Identity and this is part 1 of that series. What is (was) Defender for Identity? Defender ATP was before called Azure Advanced Threat Protection (Azure ATP) and Defender for Identity…

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Azure MFA Extensions and Network Policy Server

Half legacy but half cloud. Many organizations use NPS for securing their wlan and lan traffic or just to authenticate user based on their location inside AD or group memberships. NPS is Microsoft radius-based access management solutions that has been…

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What’s new with AAD Connect V2 and why to migrate?

History of AAD Connect User synchronization solutions has been here for a long time and they have evolved all the time, sometimes faster sometimes slower. Middle of September Microsoft released a new main version from Azure AAD Connect and the…

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Autodiscover redirect leakage

** This doesn’t concern Exchange Online in any way, only on-premise versions ** Today Guaricore lab team discovered on-premises Exchange autodiscover vulnerability. I want to call my blog post “Autodiscovering the Great Leak” but that seems like too much as…

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Office 365 ORCA and Configuration analyzer

I don’t how many of you ever used ORCA or Configuration analyzer? I have missed ORCA (Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection Recommended Configuration Analyzer) completely. I can see that it was introduced at Ignite 2019 but somehow I missed it….

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Azure Defender for container registries

Kubernetes clusters Continuous assessment of your clusters to provide visibility into misconfigurations and guidelines to help you mitigate identified threats. Learn more about environment hardening through security recommendations. Threat protection for clusters and Linux nodes. Alerts for suspicious activities are provided…

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