Category: Identity

Azure B2C is a authentication portal for social, personal and corporate accounts. The authentication is based on OpenID Connect. You can modify the login pages, add identity providers, give all Azure AD tenants the right to login thru your tenant….

Microsoft has statement in the in their docs saying. “Starting November 1, 2021, we’ll begin rolling out a change to turn on the email one-time passcode feature for all existing tenants and enable it by default for new tenants. At…

What is Azure Temporary Access Pass? Passwordless authentication methods, such as FIDO2 and Passwordless Phone Sign-in through the Microsoft Authenticator app, enable users to sign in securely without a password. Users can bootstrap Passwordless methods in one of two ways:…

Conditional access has some new cool features that will provide extra security for your user logins. In this post I will cover some of them. Will be digging deeper on these as they evolve but for now it’s important for…

What is Azure SQL Azure SQL databases are coming more and more used. They can be expanded on the go with elastic pools or you can use them inside servers like inside on-premises installations. You can have multiple SQL services…

Access reviews let’s an external users or an internal users to verify the access of a user. Access reviews honors a time frame set but the minimum time that the reviews will be automatically ran is 1 day. The other…

Hybrid identity in a trendy way to distribute your identity across cloud services. Identity has always been an important part in user interactions with services. It’s your unique identifier in the directory that you belong to. This theme can also…

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…

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…

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…