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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…

Postponed timeline for Number matching

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 18/02/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Entra, Identity, Security

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…

Section 2 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft 365 Defender – Mitigate threats to the productivity environment by using Microsoft 365 Defender

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 12/02/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Data Loss Prevention, Insider risks, Microsoft Purview, SC-200, Study guide

Welcome to the second section of my SC-200 study guide. In this section I will go through the following content: And didn’t have time (space) to include the following: And will be covering them in the next section, not to…

Section 1 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft 365 Defender – Mitigate threats to the productivity environment by using Microsoft 365 Defender

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 05/02/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Certifications, Defender, SC-200, Security

Welcome to the first part of my SC-200 study guide. In this section I will go through the following content: What benefits you get from Defender for Office 365? How to try out Defender? As an existing Microsoft 365 customer,…

Number matching and Authentication methods why you should enable them?

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

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Entra, Identity, Migrate, Security, Zero trust

Two upcoming changes coming to the tenant near you! Number matching will be enforced. Also SSPR and legacy MFA policies will be deprecated (phased). Don’t act too late on either of them. If you need to educate users, you can…

Azure Chaos Studio (Preview)

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 01/02/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure Automation, IAM, Identity, Key vault

Have you seen Azure Chaos Studio? If not, soon you have. What is Chaos Studio? Chaos Studio is a managed service that employs chaos engineering to assist you in measuring, understanding, and improving the resilience of your cloud applications and…

Microsoft 365 Defender role-based access control

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 29/01/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Compliance, Defender, IAM, Microsoft 365, Security

The new Microsoft 365 Defender RBAC model makes it simple to migrate existing permissions from the individual supported RBAC models to the new RBAC model. All permissions listed within the Microsoft 365 Defender RBAC model align to permissions in the…