Security

Privileged Identity Management Discovery and insights

February 12, 2021February 12, 2021
2 Comments
Azure AD, Security
5 min read

Privileged Identity Management (PIM) in Azure Active Directory is getting more and more popular. But how do you get started? Like any successful project, it all starts with a good inventory of the current situation. You need to identify the problem before it can be resolved. The problem we are talking about is standing access to high privilege roles. If you are not familiar with PIM, please check out this blog post first. Discovery and insights, formerly known as Security…

Number matching with Microsoft Authenticator App in Azure MFA

February 9, 2021February 9, 2021
4 Comments
Azure AD, Security
4 min read

Number matching and passwordless phone sign-in. I was used to it for a couple of months already because this feature was previously launched for personal Microsoft accounts like Outlook or Hotmail. It’s now available (preview) in Azure AD to use with your work or school account. When this feature is enabled, users are asked to match the number in the sign-in screen with the number in the Authenticator app. After that, the user needs to authenticate through PIN or biometric…

Azure Active Directory Identity Governance – Azure AD Entitlement Management

December 20, 2020December 20, 2020
3 Comments
Azure AD, Security
8 min read

In this series, we take a look at Azure Active Directory 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 Privileged Identity Management (manage time-based and approval-based role activation to protect your resources with just-in-time…

Azure Active Directory Identity Governance – Privileged Identity Management

December 9, 2020December 20, 2020
7 Comments
Azure AD, Security
8 min read

Azure Active Directory Identity Governance – Access Reviews

November 23, 2020December 20, 2020
4 Comments
Azure AD, Security
10 min read

In this series, we take a look at Azure Active Directory 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) (This blog post) Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (manage time-based and approval-based role activation to protect your…

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…

Food for thought – Bring Your Own Disaster.

September 28, 2020October 19, 2020
3 Comments
Intune, Security
7 min read

Today a slightly different blog post. It’s a common discussion that I face almost daily. Clients that embrace the “anywhere, anytime, any device” approach, and want to take control over their data. And that’s not as easy as it sounds. The problem One of the most common challenges that organizations face when embracing the modern workplace, is the one with Bring Your Own Devices. Personal devices. Devices in all flavors and sizes. Devices from different hardware vendors, with different operating…

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
9 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
1 Comment
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…