Category: Security

Hybrid identity and how to protect your users?

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…

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Conditional Access – CAE and Resilience defaults

In the beginning of this month I wrote about CAE and and now it came Globally available. It was there but now it’s gone and the only option you have is to disable or enforce it. So what is Continuous…

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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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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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Identity protection in the cloud and of the cloud.

This is the first part of Identity blog series. “Identity is the new perimeter” was probably first said in 2018 at Identiverse. And it is actually true, identity is all you have in the Evergreen cloud service. There can’t be…

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Enterprise applications SSO with custom manifest configuration

Hi, Didn’t find an article about this, so I decided to gather the pieces and put them in one place. First little bit of background. You have Azure AD and  on-premises or cloud-based application that you want to allow SSO…

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Using attack simulator for user education and gather insights.

This is part 2 of compliance and user governance. Here is part 1. Attack simulator is a tool for educating users and gathering insights on what they do wrong or right. Who can use it? If your organization has Microsoft…

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Why to go passwordless and how get there?

Password have always been a major headache for people. And always consultant have said that password complexity matters, there any a lot of pages providing to check how secure your password is. What then if your password will be cracked…

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