Category: Identity

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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Microsoft managed Authentication Methods Policy (Preview)

What Microsoft Managed is? With Microsoft Managed Settings, admins can trust Microsoft to enable a security feature they have not explicitly disabled. If the feature status is set to Microsoft-managed, it will be enabled by Microsoft at an appropriate time…

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Automatic assignment policy in Entitlement management

If you are not familiar with Entitlement management, read this first. Microsoft keeps evolving Azure AD Entitlement management solution, here is a feature added previously. And there is again a new feature added, let us see what it is. Automatic…

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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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Section 3 – Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture – Design an identity security strategy

And onward to the next section in my SC-100 study guide: Note: includes hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios! Design a strategy for access to cloud resources Recommend an identity store (tenants, B2B, B2C, hybrid) Recommend an authentication strategy Recommend an authorization…

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps in Microsoft 365 Defender (Preview)

Microsoft is all the time consolidating their various different portals, they already removed multiple portals during recent years. Here is a full list of the current ones, sigh! Turn on Preview features Required permissions Accounts assigned the following Azure Active…

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Section 1 – Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture – Build an overall security strategy and architecture

The first section for SC-100 study will contain: Identify the integration points in an architecture by using Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architecture (MCRA) Translate business goals into security requirements Translate security requirements into technical capabilities, including security services, security products, and…

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Azure Enterprise-scale or Resource groups?

In this post I will be comparing the two different options, Azure Resource Management and Resource groups. These two are fundamentally different although they have the same functions for the resources. But first let’s go thru the cloud journey you…

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Microsoft Entra Permissions Management

Entra has combined three existing solutions under entra.microsoft.com: Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)  Multicloud identity and access management solution with integrated security.  Microsoft Entra Permissions Management​  One unified model to manage permissions ​of any identity across any cloud.  Microsoft Entra Verified ID​ …

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