Category: Security

What is Azure Key Vault Managed HSM, how to install and eventually remove (if needed)

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 11/11/2022 0 Comments on What is Azure Key Vault Managed HSM, how to install and eventually remove (if needed)
Posted in Azure, Identity, Key vault, Managed HSM, Security

Managed HSM Key auto-rotation is generally available First the happy news! Key auto-rotation is also generally available for Managed HSM! Earlier this year it came to Key Vault already! Read more here about the Key vault auto-rotation feature and how…

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Azure Front Door and Zero-downtime migration now in Public preview!

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 08/11/2022 0 Comments on Azure Front Door and Zero-downtime migration now in Public preview!
Posted in Azure, Azure Front Door, Identity, Security

Finally it’s here! This was introduced to the Roadmap in March 29th 2022. It was a long wait but it was worth the wait! Read here the full announcement! Why this is a big deal? First there was Front Door…

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Azure Automation Account and Run as account deprecation

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 07/11/2022 0 Comments on Azure Automation Account and Run as account deprecation
Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Azure Automation, IAM, Identity, Identity Platform, Security

First covering why I wrote this article, well this is one reason And another reason is that PowerShell 7.2 came out in public preview. All old things must come to an end, well at least with Cloud services as they…

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

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 06/11/2022 0 Comments on Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 5
Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Conditional access, Hybrid, Identity, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Graph, Security, Sharepoint, Teams

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

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 30/10/2022 0 Comments on Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 4
Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Azure B2B, Conditional access, Entitlement management, IAM, Identity, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Authenticator, Microsoft Graph, Security

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

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 26/10/2022 0 Comments on Accessing Azure SQL with different methods
Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Conditional access, Identity, Powershell, Security, SQL

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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Additional context in Microsoft Authenticator notifications is now generally available!

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 23/10/2022 0 Comments on Additional context in Microsoft Authenticator notifications is now generally available!
Posted in Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Identity, Microsoft Authenticator, Security

Why to use? Additional context is now out of preview and you really should enable it as soon as possible, it’s really really important that your users understand where they login from! Multi-factor authentication is excellent security feature, in the…

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

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 23/10/2022 0 Comments on Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 3
Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Azure AD Cloud Sync, Conditional access, Hybrid, Identity, Security

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

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 19/10/2022 0 Comments on ChromeOS Flex and my findings for the security
Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Conditional access, Entra, 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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Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 2

Harri Jaakkonen
Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 15/10/2022 0 Comments on Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 2
Posted in AAD Connect, Active Directory, Azure, Azure AD, Defender, Hybrid, Identity, Security

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you have a Hybrid identity setup. If you still need (haven’t convinced you otherwise) federation services in on-premises, use should use Defender for Identity sensors for ADFS What it needs? ADFS…

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