The world is your authentication and identity oyster
This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligence Security Association guest blog series. To learn more about MISA, go here. The world is your authentication/identity oyster If you’re older than 10 years of age you’ve undoubtedly heard the phrase ... continue reading
Protect and Secure Cloud-based Applications using Azure MFA
Introduction In this article, we're going to talk about enabling MFA for applications that are accessed over the internet. This will force users accessing the application from the internet to authenticate with their primary credentials as well as a secondary ... continue reading
PowerShell Basics: How to check if MFA is enabled in Azure and Office 365
Security governance has been top of mind for most since the onslaught of human malware has the masses working from home. This comes with new concerns surrounding identity protection and actually proving that remote users are who they say they ... continue reading
Defending Exchange servers under attack
Securing Exchange servers is one of the most important things defenders can do to limit organizational exposure to attacks. Any threat or vulnerability impacting Exchange servers should be treated with the highest priority because these servers contain critical business data, ... continue reading
Inside Microsoft Threat Protection: Mapping attack chains from cloud to endpoint
The increasing pervasiveness of cloud services in today’s work environments, accelerated by a crisis that forced companies around the globe to shift to remote work, is significantly changing how defenders must monitor and protect organizations. Corporate data is spread across ... continue reading
Minimize disruption with cost-effective backup and disaster recovery solutions on Azure
A top of mind concern among our customers is keeping their applications and data workloads running and recoverable in the case of unforeseen events or disasters. For example, COVID-19 has presented daunting challenges for IT, which are only compounded by ... continue reading
Seven ways to achieve cost savings and deliver efficiencies with Azure infrastructure
The global health crisis has transformed the way we work and live. At Microsoft, we are committed to doing what we can to help our customers respond to the crisis and plan ahead for future success. In the past couple ... continue reading
“Why are my users not prompted for MFA as expected?”
“MFA” or ‘Multi-Factor Authentication’ is a process where something more than just a username and password is required before granting access to a resource. This could be a one-time code sent to a user’s cellphone via SMS text, a ... continue reading
Password-less FIDO2 Security Key Signin to Windows 10 HAADJ Devices
Fido2 for SSO was introduced first for cloud resources, then on-premises resources. For either, use Azure AD joined or Hybrid Azure AD joined Windows 10 devices.continue reading
Manage your authentication phone numbers and more in new Microsoft Graph beta APIs
Howdy folks! We’ve had a ton of requests for APIs to manage users’ authentication methods. That’s why it is so cool that today I get to announce that the first set of these APIs has reached beta in Microsoft Graph! ... continue reading
