Vignesh Mudliar

This is the second article in the Zero Trust Security in Microsoft 365 series. Here you will gain an understanding of the strategies to deploy Zero Trust Identity Security. Managing identity will always be at the forefront of this security model. Environments with proper identity policies are better placed to handle attempts at gaining access…

Zero Trust is a security model that can be applied to Microsoft 365. It focuses on improving security by verifying and testing both the identity and device before granting access to resources. You can think of Zero Trust as a way of working, wherein you take it for granted that every user and device accessing…

In this article, I’m going to show you how to enable Windows Hello for Business. You should enable Windows Hello for Business to reduce the risk associated with passwords. Even if your users’ devices don’t have hardware that supports Windows Hello, like a fingerprint reader, you can still have them use a PIN to login….

Registering Windows 10 devices with an identity provider, like Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID), is an important part of including endpoints in the Zero Trust security model. In this article, I’m going to show you how to register Windows 10 with Azure Active Directory. You will 1) register a Windows 10 device…

Registering Windows 10 devices with an identity provider, like Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID), is an important part of including endpoints in the Zero Trust security model. In this article, I’m going to show you how to join Windows 10 to Azure Active Directory. You will 1) join an existing Windows 10…

In this article, I’m going to show you how to customize endpoint security settings in Microsoft Intune. Including how to change security baseline settings, how to make sure devices are running a specific operating system version (or later), and how to configure Windows and iOS disk encryption settings. Microsoft provides a series of recommended security…

In this article, I’m going to show you how to create a compliance policy in Intune, Microsoft’s Mobile Device Management (MDM) solution, that restricts access to resources to cloud managed and compliant devices only. Even if your devices are registered or joined to Azure Active Directory (AD), there are still risks that could lead to…