Category: Conditional access

Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 5

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you are in part of your journey that you have either Hybrid or fully cloud-based identities. In the last part I covered how you can keep your External users in bay…

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Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 4

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you are in part of your journey that you have either Hybrid or fully cloud-based identities. In the last part I covered how you can use Hybrid Identity Administrator role, Automation…

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Accessing Azure SQL with different methods

I decided to write about Azure SQL as inspired by an question from the community. The ask was “How to do I access Azure SQL with MFA enabled user, should I remove the MFA and create a normal user?” In…

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Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 3

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you have a Hybrid identity setup. This will translate to having Source of Authority (SoA) in your on-premises environment. We covered parts of user sync, what kind of solutions to use…

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ChromeOS Flex and my findings for the security

What is ChromeOS Flex? It’s always nice to discover new things in this multi-cloud and multi-OS world of yours. Google bough Neverware back in 2020 and now there has been some working versions of ChromeOS Flex which is based on…

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Conditional access and authentication strength (preview)

First I wanted to mention the link problems inside Azure Portals. For a while and for some people portal.azure.com didn’t show the Authentication strengths in their portal, this has now been fixed in normal Azure portal. Entra portal on the…

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Do’s and don’t concerning security for Identity part 1

In simplified terms there is two different ways to build a cloud service. Cloud-based or Cloud native Hybrid There is also different possibilities to federate Identities between Cloud service providers but also with Federation services through on-premises environment. Azure AD…

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What’s new with Secure score in Microsoft Defender portal (and some other tips)

What is Secure score? Microsoft releases suggestions on security settings that should be turned on to enhance your security posture against external and internal threats. You’re given points for the following actions: Configuring recommended security features Doing security-related tasks Addressing…

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Azure MFA migration tool and how to setup MFA NPS extension

Well, this is nice. Microsoft has released a migration tool to get rid of your On-premises MFA server. Scenarios Moving the registered MFA phone numbers is only part of the migration from MFA Server to Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication. The…

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TOTP globally available for Azure AD B2C

I wrote before a post about B2C in general, how to use our own custom domain thru Azure Front door and how to use custom policies. I prefer that you read these out to get clearer picture of B2C functionality….

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