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Azure (AD) recommendations with some explanations

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 08/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Azure Policies, Defender, Identity, Identity Platform, Microsoft Graph, Security

This post is on recommendations, so here is my personal red alert type recommendation for all. You still have 83 days, give or take to establish a migration from ADAL to MSAL. Read from more Learn In the past months…

Azure Arc with Defender for cloud

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 07/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure ARC, Defender, Hybrid, On-premises, Security

Deploying external server to Defender for Cloud Deploying those servers can be done with the following methods: And this is the reason we are talking about Arc as an onboarding tools. See more here But as many use Azure for…

Azure AD External Identities with SAML IdP part 1 of 2

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 05/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Azure B2B, Hybrid, Identity, Identity Platform, Security

In the picture above, you can see how Conditional Access will evaluate those guest users. The majority of users who are typically thought of as guests fall into this category. This B2B collaboration user has guest-level access in your organization…

Power Platform and customer-managed encryption key (preview) with some HSM

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 02/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Compliance, IAM, Managed HSM, Security

This is huge for all the Power Platform users. Now you can use Key vault to store your key, if you aren’t familiar with concept of Key vault, let me open it a bit. What features will be supported? Power…

Section 6 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud – Implement and maintain cloud security posture management and workload protection

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 02/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Defender, Identity, KQL, SC-200, Security

Then we go to Defender for Cloud and starting with the planning part. Let’s get going! Be sure to check the previous chapters, you will need that information to understand to journey that we are on. Plan and configure Microsoft…

Section 5 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft 365 Defender – Manage extended detection and response (XDR) in Microsoft 365 Defender

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 26/03/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Defender, Identity, KQL, SC-200, Security, Study guide

Today we will be discovering XDR with Microsoft 365 Defender. It will be an central hub for many different scenarios. Although you will have interfaces inside Azure portal for Sentinel and Defender for Cloud but you can get those signals…

Azure AD Privileged Identity Management and new features

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 08/03/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Conditional access, Identity, Identity Platform, Microsoft Purview, PIM, Security, Zero trust

What is PIM? PIM has and will be a backbone for permission Just In Time access in Microsoft based environments. You can easily assign Permanent roles but also Eligible roles for admins and define timeout for the roles. They either…

Section 4 – Mitigate identity threats part 2 of 2

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 05/03/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Active Directory, ADFS, Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Certificates, Conditional access, Cross-tenant, Defender, Entra, Hybrid, Identity, On-premises, SC-200, Security, Zero trust

Identity protecting is challenging if you don’t know what you should protect and when you do, you should know how to protect it. In the second part we will be discovering more on Conditional Access as a dynamic boundary in…

Section 4 – Mitigate identity threats part 1 of 2

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 26/02/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Access Reviews, Azure, Azure AD, Conditional access, Entra, Identity, SC-200, Security

Last part was a blast, let’s see how long this one will be as it’s about Identity! Just like you can see from the picture above, Identity is every where and it could be the same Identity for all the…

Section 3 – Mitigate endpoint threats by using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 19/02/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Defender, Identity, Intune, SC-200, Security, Study guide

Welcome to the third section of my SC-200 study guide. First the ones that I didn’t have time to include in the last section but will cover them in different order as in my opinion it makes more sense: And…

Category: Security