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Active Directory Identity Governance – Access Reviews

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020
Azure AD, Security
10 min read

In this series, we take a look at Active Directory (Azure AD) Identity Governance. This premium feature provides you with all the tools that you need to take and keep control over your (external) identities and access to roles, resources, applications, and groups. In short, Identity Governance gives you three ways to do this: Azure AD Access Reviews (review membership of groups and access to applications) Azure AD Entitlement Management (manage identity and access lifecycle at scale, by automating access…

License on-demand with Power Automate and Azure AD

October 18, 2020October 22, 2020
1 Comment
Azure AD, Power Platform
8 min read

Most organizations are using group-based licensing in Azure Active Directory. This is often integrated with the onboarding process of the users. But there are some use cases where you have some non-standard licenses attached to your tenant that you hand out on demand. You could still use group-based licensing, but users are added manually to the group. Thinking about that scenario, I came up with a pretty easy method to automate this flow. In short: a user can request a…

Block outdated operating systems with Cloud App Security

September 20, 2020September 20, 2020
3 Comments
Azure AD, Security
4 min read

It is not unlikely that some of your users still use Windows 7 on their home computers. Or any other outdated operating system (heaven forbid). Despite the warnings, news articles, and endless coffee chit chats about this subject, they still have the – “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” – mindset, and will eventually use it to access work resources as well. With the use of Conditional Access you can block specific operating systems, but you cannot specify a…

Azure MFA authentication method analysis. Share the results with Power Automate!

September 8, 2020September 8, 2020
6 Comments
Azure AD, Power Platform, Security
4 min read

You might have seen the sample script, created by the Microsoft community, to run some analysis on your Azure MFA authentication methods. This script can be used to make recommendations on how to improve each user’s MFA configuration. You can run the script against your tenant, and the results can be exported to a CSV file. Wouldn’t it be cool to share those results with your users straight away? With the use of Power Automate (Flow), we can easily send…

Microsoft Secure Score Series – 15 – Do not expire passwords

September 6, 2020September 6, 2020
Azure AD, Secure Score, Security
4 min read

Research has found that when periodic password resets are enforced, passwords become less secure. Users tend to pick a weaker password and vary it slightly for each reset. If a user creates a strong password (long, complex and without any pragmatic words present) it should remain just as strong in 60 days as it is today. It is Microsoft’s official security position to not expire passwords periodically without a specific reason, and recommends that cloud-only tenants set the password policy…

Bulk dismiss risky users with Power Automate or Logic Apps

August 6, 2020October 16, 2020
Azure AD, Logic Apps, Power Platform, Security
4 min read

Update 08-10-2020: Microsoft released an official connector for Azure AD Identity Protection. This would be much easier to use, since you don’t have to create a service principal to authenticate the custom connector. However, at the time of writing the official connector does not have the action to get all the risky users. Will keep an eye on things. This blog was inspired by an Azure AD Mailbag blog about Azure AD Identity Protection. In the article, Microsoft provided a…

Prepopulate phone methods using a Custom Connector in Power Automate

July 30, 2020August 5, 2020
9 Comments
Azure AD, Logic Apps, Power Platform, Security
11 min read

Part 2 – Automation In the previous blog post of this series, I’ve shown you the use of the Graph API and how you could manually populate the phone methods for your users. Today, we are going to take it a step further. We’re going to add some automation with Power Automate by using a custom connector. What are we building? Today we are going to add a phone method for all your users using Power Automate and a custom…

Prepopulate phone methods for MFA and SSPR using Graph API

July 30, 2020October 23, 2020
3 Comments
Azure AD, Logic Apps, Power Platform, Security
6 min read

Part 1 – Graph API What is the number one task if we want to protect our identity? Right. Turn on MFA.What is the number one task our helpdesk is busy with all day (and night)? Right. Password Resets.What is the number one struggle when we want to implement security? Right. User experience.So, what are you gonna get by reading this blog post? Some light at the end of the tunnel. Buckle up! What’s the case here? I start at…

Close the gap. Azure AD Identity Protection & Conditional Access.

July 14, 2020July 15, 2020
2 Comments
Azure AD, Security
8 min read

This blog is about Azure AD Identity Protection and Conditional Access, and how these two features are working together. This is not my first article on this subject. (neither my last) In previous blogs, I covered the sign-in risk and user risk policies as part of the Secure Score Series, and in my blog, about Azure Multifactor Authentication I talked about Azure AD Identity Protection, and how it can be used to roll out MFA in your organization. Microsoft released…

Use Power Automate as your Conditional Access Police Department

July 4, 2020July 5, 2020
2 Comments
Azure AD, Logic Apps, Power Platform, Security
7 min read

Last week, I was working on a new blog for the Secure Score Series regarding global admin and break glass accounts. I came to the point where I was thinking of possible scenarios that could go wrong with these accounts. What if someone accidentally added these users to a certain group? What if that group would be triggered in some policy or maintenance tasks? A lot of these actions can be discovered using Microsoft Cloud App Security and Azure Monitor.…