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Microsoft Now Lets IT Admins Review & Remove Inactive Azure AD Users

Microsoft has unveiled a couple of security improvements to Azure Active Directory (recently renamed Microsoft Entra ID). The company has released a new access reviews feature in preview that lets organizations remove inactive user accounts that could potentially cause security risks. More specifically, IT administrators can now delete accounts from Azure AD that haven’t logged...

Last Update: Jul 17, 2023

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How to Secure Sensitive Data in Microsoft 365

We’ve come a long way since those days and have seen technology evolve to support data stored in business cloud platforms such as Microsoft 365. In recent years, the digital revolution has made data more portable and more accessible, but crucially it has also made that data more vulnerable in many ways. Fortunately, if your organization…

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Enforce MFA for SharePoint Online Sites with Conditional Access Policies

Last Update: Jun 15, 2022

Securing Confidential SharePoint Online Data SharePoint Online sites hold some very confidential information. Now that SharePoint Online supports sensitivity labels, you can protect individual documents with encryption to stop their contents leaking. Other features, like regarding newly uploaded documents sensitive by default to stop them being shared externally until Data Loss Prevention (DLP) processing completes,…

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No Question That MFA Should be Used, But Is It Time to Dump SMS?

SMS and Voice MFA Methods in Microsoft’s Crosshairs On November 10 Alex Weinert, the Director of Identity Security at Microsoft, posted It’s Time to Hang Up on Phone Transports for Authentication. The article argues that it’s time to consider dumping the SMS and voice methods for multi-factor authentication (MFA) in favor of passwordless strong authentication…

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How to Enable Security Defaults in Azure Active Directory

Microsoft is gradually introducing multifactor authentication (MFA) for all organizational accounts in Azure Active Directory. In this article, I look at the new Security Defaults setting and how to enable it.

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An Azure Infrastructure Year in Review – 2018

Aidan takes a look back at 2018 and discusses some of the highlights from each month. It is interesting to me how I underrated some announcements which later became significant to Microsoft customers or to me.

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Microsoft Needs A Quality Review

Aidan is convinced that Microsoft needs an “XP SP2” fix to everything that they are doing today; he explains why in this post.

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