Background Many customers face challenges in managing their Conditional Access (CA) policies. Over time, they accumulate more and more policies that are created ad-hoc to solve specific business scenarios, resulting in a loss of overview and increased troubleshooting efforts. Microsoft has provided guidance on how to structure your Conditional Access policies in a way that …
Automating tasks is the core of PowerShell scripting. Adding artificial intelligence into the mix takes automation to a whole new level. Today, we’ll simplify the process of connecting to OpenAI’s powerful text summarization API from PowerShell. Let’s turn complex AI interaction into a straightforward script. To follow this guide, you’ll need an OpenAI API key. …
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Hi All! Jerry Devore back again with another hardening Active Directory topic. Before we jump into the technical stuff, I would like to briefly share some tips for structuring a protocol hardening project. I picked up these suggestions from working with customers who have been successful in their protocol hardening efforts. Tip #1 – Collaborate …
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Hello, it has been a while since I have posted any articles, but my little buddy Raven (my miniature schnauzer) and I are here to talk about the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA). Raven has an old, worn-out bed that she has been using for years. It has lost its cushioning, doesn’t offer much comfort anymore, …
To understand why customers are adopting generative AI solutions like Microsoft Security Copilot, we have to go back to the cyberthreat landscape—which continues to get more challenging. Organizations are facing a surge in cyberattacks while also dealing with a global shortage of security talent. In only the past 12 months, Microsoft has seen password attacks …
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Introduction Throughout recent years, the IT world has shifted its workloads, management layers, and machines to the cloud, thus introducing a new attack surface, accompanied by new attack vectors. The following introduced a tactic for threat actors to deploy their cyber-attacks against organizations’ cloud environments, gaining strong permissions, operating for financial gain, and more. Upon succeeding …
Microsoft Defender for Cloud latest protection against sophisticated abuse of Azure VM Extensions Continue Reading
Introduction In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, cloud integration and automation have ascended as twin pillars of modern business efficiency. Microsoft’s Azure and Power Automate are two titans in this arena, each offering a unique set of capabilities. But what if we could marry the vast cloud resources of Azure with the intuitive workflow automation of …
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Microsoft has been tracking activity related to the financially motivated threat actor Octo Tempest, whose evolving campaigns represent a growing concern for organizations across multiple industries. Octo Tempest leverages broad social engineering campaigns to compromise organizations across the globe with the goal of financial extortion. With their extensive range of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), …
The energy industry is evolving. With the transition to more sustainable practices and preparation for immense growth in energy usage, energy companies are increasingly relying on data to gain the insights needed to increase efficiency, support growth, and modernize infrastructure. Energy companies around the world are using Microsoft technologies, including Azure Data Manager for Energy as …
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We’ve seen huge interest from organizations that want to use Azure OpenAI service to access Large Language Models (LLMs) in combination with their own data. Allowing these applications to access your organization’s knowledge base allows inclusion of data relevant to the conversation, creating a richer and more useful experience. However, this introduces new problems if the …
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