Author: Harri Jaakkonen

Microsoft certification changes and study materials

Microsoft rebranded their Learn during last year, now it has a fresh new look. Future-proofing your career Microsoft certifications are crucial component for you personally and for the organizations you present. Many organizations have good compensation for skilling-up and they…

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Azure AD External Identities with SAML IdP part 1 of 2

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…

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

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…

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Azure AD Privileged Identity Management and new features

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…

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Section 4 – Mitigate identity threats part 2 of 2

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…

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Section 4 – Mitigate identity threats part 1 of 2

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…

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

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…

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Postponed timeline for Number matching

First the good news. Well maybe not good security wise but at least you still have time to Educate and enable before it will be enforced. Number matching enforcement is still in the horizon Also SSPR and legacy MFA policies…

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