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Use Microsoft Graph Security for end-user notifications

August 19, 2020August 19, 2020
1 Comment
Logic Apps, Power Platform, Security
5 min read

In this short blog post, I want to show how you can use the Microsoft Graph Security to send alerts and notifications to your end-users. I also want to show you that it is super easy to set up. All you need is: Power Automate or Logic Apps Microsoft Graph Security Connector (premium) Microsoft Teams or Email connector to send the messages One of the (Microsoft) security products to work with like Cloud App Security or Identity Protection Microsoft Graph…

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, 2020December 25, 2020
11 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
4 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, 2020February 15, 2021
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.…

Microsoft Secure Score Series – 14 – Designate more than one global admin

July 3, 2020July 4, 2020
1 Comment
Azure AD, Secure Score, Security
5 min read

Designate more than one global admin Having more than one global administrator helps if you are unable to fulfill the needs or obligations of your organization. It’s important to have a delegate or an emergency account someone from your team can access if necessary. It also allows admins the ability to monitor each other for signs of a breach. Having too many global admins is no good. But having only one global admin is even worse. Let’s talk about global…

Microsoft Secure Score Series – 13 – Set automated notifications for new and trending cloud applications in your organization

July 2, 2020July 2, 2020
Secure Score, Security
5 min read

Set automated notifications for new and trending cloud applications in your organization With Cloud Discovery policies, you can set alerts that notify you when new apps are detected within your organization. And again, we’re back at Cloud App Security. Earlier I showed how MCAS can help you to discover shadow IT in your organization by ingesting your firewall and proxy log files. Today, we take a look at the app discovery policies that are available. If you are new to…

Use Power Automate or Logic Apps to keep an eye on your licenses

June 27, 2020July 25, 2020
32 Comments
Azure AD, Logic Apps, Power Platform
9 min read

I guess we’ve all been there; you ran out of licenses in your Azure AD or Office 365 tenant. Despite you hang out in your admin portal every day, you were still taken by surprise when you discover an issue, caused by a license shortage. More often this is caused by the fact that the people who are responsible to buy these licenses, are not always IT admins. So it’s easy to run out of licenses. Time to get this…

A first look at Administrative Units and My Staff in Azure Active Directory

June 20, 2020June 20, 2020
3 Comments
Azure AD, Security
11 min read

Recently, Microsoft introduced Administrative Units in Azure Active Directory. At the time of writing, this feature is in preview. Today we take a first look at how this is going to help organizations managing users and groups in Azure Active Directory. But to understand why this feature is such a big deal, we need to know what the difference is between the “classic” Active Directory and the “modern” Azure Active Directory structure. Active Directory To illustrate this, I created a…