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Zero Trust: How Azure Active Directory and Identity Management Enable Cloud Security 

After the successful SolarWinds attack in 2020 where attackers gained access to Microsoft’s systems, Microsoft changed its approach and aligned with the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) zero trust architecture. In this article, we’re going to detail how Microsoft’s zero trust approach leverages Azure Active Directory and Identity and Access Management to enable cloud...

Last Update: Aug 29, 2023

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Why You Should Restrict Access to Office 365 Using Microsoft Conditional Access Policies

Last Update: Jan 04, 2023

Organizations adopting Microsoft’s cloud services need to keep their employees safe, especially when employees need to access these cloud services while being outside of the organization’s network. In this guide, we’ll explain how organizations can set up Conditional Access policies to restrict how their users can access Office 365 and other Microsoft services. What are…

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How to Create Conditional Access Policies using PowerShell

When working in a Microsoft 365 environment, IT pros can use Conditional Access policies to control access to their tenant. In this article, we’ll detail how to create Conditional Access policies using PowerShell instead of the graphical user interface, and why using PowerShell to do that can help you save some time Conditional Access policies…

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Protecting Office 365 Documents with Conditional Access Policies

Last Update: Jun 15, 2022

Azure Conditional Access policies can be used with Azure Information Protection (AIP) to secure protected documents against unauthorized access. If you have already decided to use AIP as part of your Office 365 data protection strategy, adding a conditional access policy is a quick way to frustrate people who try to access documents when they shouldn’t.

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft Entra Workload Identities Service Brings New Features for Securing Apps and Services

Microsoft has released some important updates for its Microsoft Entra workload identities service. The new capabilities are designed to protect workload identities that are vulnerable to security threats such as consent-phishing attacks. Workload identities are non-human identity aspects (such as virtual machines and containers) that allow an application or a service principal to access a…

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Microsoft’s Azure AD Conditional Access Service Can Now Require Reauthentication

Microsoft has added re-authentication support in Azure AD Conditional Access. The company says that it’s one of the top-requested features from customers, who will now be able to configure policies to require authentication by end-users. Microsoft defines sign-in frequency as the time period before a user is required to log in again when accessing a…

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Microsoft Announces Improvements to Azure AD Conditional Access

Microsoft announced April 5th two new Azure Active Directory (AD) Conditional Access features reaching general availability.

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Everything You Need to Know About Azure Infrastructure – June 2019

Each month Microsoft adds new features and updates existing products for Azure, here’s the updates you need to know about for June.

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Conditional Access Blocks Downloads of Office 365 Attachments and Documents

Azure Conditional Access policies are pretty powerful, especially when applications accommodate their controls. OWA and SharePoint Online can co-operate with conditional access policies to block the ability of Office 365 users to download email attachments and documents. Although not a perfect solution, it’s a good start.

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