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Microsoft Entra Entitlement Management to Update User Admin Role

Microsoft has announced some important changes coming to its Microsoft Entra Entitlement Management service. Starting on May 3, employees in the user admin role won’t be able to perform identity governance tasks such as managing Entitlement Management catalogs and access packages. Microsoft Entra Entitlement management is an identity management feature that lets customers manage and...

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Microsoft Releases Azure AD System-Preferred Authentication Policy in Preview

Microsoft has started rolling out a new system-preferred authentication policy in preview for Azure AD customers. The feature enables the system to evaluate which authentication method should be used when a user signs in to Azure AD. With system-preferred authentication, Azure AD will check all authentication methods registered for an account and only show the…

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Cloud Computing and Security

Microsoft Entra Workload Identities Service is Now Generally Available

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Entra Workload Identities service. The new solution is designed to manage identity and access for software workloads and Certificate-based Authentication. A workload identity is an identity that allows an application or service principles to access other services and resources. However, it’s a bit challenging to secure workload…

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft’s Entra Permissions Management Solution Goes Out of Preview

Microsoft has announced that its Entra Permissions Management solution is now generally available for enterprise customers. It’s a cloud-based infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) service that provides insights into permissions for all user and workload identities in multi-cloud environments. Microsoft Entra Permissions Management (formerly known as Cloud Knox Security) launched in public preview back in February….

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft Defender for Identity Can Now Detect Insecure Domain Configurations

Microsoft Defender for Identity is getting a new update that enables IT admins to identify insecure domain configurations in their environments. These security capabilities aim to protect businesses from Kerberos resource-based constrained delegation relay attacks. Specifically, Microsoft Defender for Identity provides real-time monitoring to detect two default configurations that are vulnerable to security breaches. These…

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