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Section 2- Secure access by using Azure AD – Implement passwordless authentication

Passwordless authentication is a hot topic, if You have a password it can be cracked or phished. In the last parts we enabled MFA so let’s continue from there. What is passwordless? Passwordless means that You sign-in without a password,…

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Why to go passwordless and how get there?

Password have always been a major headache for people. And always consultant have said that password complexity matters, there any a lot of pages providing to check how secure your password is. What then if your password will be cracked…

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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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Number matching and Authentication methods why you should enable them?

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…

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Do’s and don’ts concerning security for Identity part 6

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 create your own roles and use…

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Additional context in Microsoft Authenticator notifications is now generally available!

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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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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Microsoft authenticator password generator and couple of other new features

Hi all, Wanted to share some news on Microsoft Authenticator new features for this Friday. Generating Strong passwords Cool feature, that wasn’t there before. Yep, it wasn’t. See the screenshots for more insights. Enable Autofill with Authenticator How do I…

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Section 8 – Implement an Authentication and Access Management Solution – Manage user authentication

administer authentication methods (FIDO2 / Passwordless) implement an authentication solution based on Windows Hello for Business configure and deploy self-service password reset deploy and manage password protection configure smart lockout thresholds implement and manage tenant restrictions What is passwordless? Passwordless…

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Section 7 – Implement an Authentication and Access Management Solution – Plan and implement Azure MFA

Time for section 7 in my SC-300 study guide. The topics for today are: plan Azure MFA deployment (excluding MFA Server) implement and manage Azure MFA settings manage MFA settings for users What is Multi-factor Authentication? Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication…

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