Cloud App Security on JanBakker.tech

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

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 06:58:07 +0000

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.

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

Fri, 30 Oct 2020 15:38:54 +0000

Protect your files on unmanaged devices

Using Azure Information Protection & Microsoft Cloud App Security

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.

Block outdated operating systems with Cloud App Security

Sun, 20 Sep 2020 07:46:28 +0000

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.

Control access from unmanaged devices with Cloud App Security

Sat, 05 Sep 2020 12:48:15 +0000

When COVID-19 hit the world, most people had to work from home. I can imagine that a lot of organizations were not ready for this. So they might have ended up letting their employees working from their personal devices. In some way, this is what we always preached: anywhere, anytime, and on any device. But when you enable Bring Your Own Devices for Microsoft 365 services, there is a lot to think of.

Use Microsoft Graph Security for end-user notifications

Wed, 19 Aug 2020 13:11:23 +0000

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:

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

Thu, 02 Jul 2020 13:16:48 +0000

In this series, I’ll be covering the Microsoft Secure Score improvement actions. Although Microsoft does a great job on telling you what to do, some actions have a much bigger impact and need to be balanced against business needs. Some actions might not even have value for your organization. In the end, Microsoft Secure Score is meant to strengthen your security, not a contest to reach the highest score possible. In this series, I’ll pick out random actions and try to make it as simple as possible, backed with notes from the field.

Microsoft Secure Score Series – 10 – Discover trends in shadow IT application usage

Sat, 06 Jun 2020 08:22:45 +0000

Microsoft Secure Score Series – 08 – Use Cloud App Security to detect anomalous behavior

Fri, 01 May 2020 10:36:51 +0000

Activity policy templates for Teams in Microsoft Cloud App Security

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 06:01:01 +0000

The usage of Teams is massively increased over the past weeks. The numbers of people using Teams nowadays are insane. Organizations rapidly enrolled Teams to their users. But what about security? Time to take a look at security and governance. But where do you start?