Cloud App Security Archives

Step-up authentication with Defender for Cloud Apps and Authentication Context

June 7, 2023June 7, 2023
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Cloud App Security, Entra, Security
5 min read

In this post, I will show you how you can integrate Azure AD’s Authentication Context with Defender for Cloud Apps to require step-up authentication for specific scenarios. Step-up authentication allows you to re-evaluate Azure AD Conditional Access policies when users take sensitive actions during a session. To demonstrate this feature, we need to do the following steps: 1. Create Authentication Context (tag) First, we’ll need to define the Authentication Context̀. This will be used to ‘tag’ resources or actions. Go…

Protect files on download using Cloud App Security and Azure Information Protection

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020
2 Comments
Cloud App Security, Security
8 min read

If you have read my blog about Bring Your Own Devices, on how important it is to protect your Office 365 files, you might find value in this one too. Today, we take a look at Cloud App Security again. We are going to use the integration with Azure Information Protection. Our goal today: Protect our files in Office 365 when they are downloaded to unmanaged devices. This will prevent unauthorized access to the files when the file is shared…