This blog post is the third blog post of a series dedicated to Zero Trust security in Microsoft 365. In the first two blog posts, we set the basics by going over the free features of Azure AD that can be implemented in an organization that starts its Zero Trust journey in Microsoft 365. We … Continue reading Enforce Zero Trust in Microsoft 365 – Part 3: Introduction to Conditional Access
In the first blog post of this series, we have seen how strong authentication, i.e., Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), could be enforced for users using a free Azure Active Directory subscription within the Microsoft 365 environment. In this blog post, we will continue to harden the configuration of our Azure AD tenant to enforce Zero Trust … Continue reading Enforce Zero Trust in Microsoft 365 – Part 2: Protect against external users and applications
There is a general misconception among cloud consumers that the availability of their resources in the cloud is always guaranteed. This is not true since all cloud providers, including Microsoft, offer specific SLAs for their products that almost never reach an availability target of 100%. For the consumers who have deployed critical resources and applications … Continue reading Implementing Business Continuity on Azure
This first blog post is part of a series of blog posts related to the implementation of Zero Trust approach in Microsoft 365. This series will first cover the basics and then deep dive into the different features such as Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Conditional Access policies, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps policies, Information … Continue reading Enforce Zero Trust in Microsoft 365 – Part 1: Setting the basics
Introduction A few weeks ago, I got a question from a client to check how they could prevent administrators, including local administrators on their device, to add exclusions in Microsoft Defender Antivirus. I first thought it was going to be pretty easy by pushing some settings via Microsoft Endpoint Manager. However, after doing some research … Continue reading Can we block the addition of local Microsoft Defender Antivirus exclusions?
Introduction Everyone that has used Amazon Web Services (AWS) knows that the cloud environment has a unique way of granting access to users and resources. This is done by allowing users and/or resources to temporarily assume roles. These kinds of actions are possible because of trust policies that are assigned to those roles. A trust … Continue reading The dangers of trust policies in AWS
