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No more excuses: 5 Tips & tricks to make Office 365 MFA easier on people
As I’m sure you are aware by now, Multi-factor Authentication reduces your risk of identity compromise by 99.9%. Requiring so called “strong passwords,” by contrast, doesn’t make that much difference...
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2020 Edition of the Recommended Conditional access policy design guide is...
I just finished updating the Conditional access design guide, part of the Microsoft 365 Best practices checklists. The new updates reflect some carefully considered feedback from my clients...
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Notes from the field: Windows 10 Device Compliance
One of the coolest features in Microsoft 365 is the ability to measure device compliance, and based on that reading, grant, deny or limit access to cloud resources. For mobile devices this works...
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The many ways to prevent data leakage in Microsoft 365
Office 365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Windows Information Protection (aka Endpoint DLP), Conditional Access App Enforced Restrictions, Conditional Access App Control with Microsoft Cloud App...
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Boost your security with Hybrid Azure AD Join: From Zero to Conditional...
“Alex, I work at a non-profit and I would love to take advantage of the better security in Microsoft 365 Business (we have Business Premium now), but it sounds like it is for “cloud-only” customers?...
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A simpler Conditional Access baseline
Some folks have written to me about the “complexity” of my Conditional Access guide and were hoping to find something a bit simpler. This surprised me, and initially I shrugged it off. But I have...
View ArticleDeploying Conditional Access Policies via PowerShell
There is a new GitHub repository available from Microsoft: Manage Conditional Access policies like code. Similar to the infamous Intune samples repo from which I and many others have built their...
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Choosing (and implementing) your strategy for personal devices
In a recent Microsoft blog announcing some cool new discovery features in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, there is an interesting (but hardly surprising) statistic shared: your users are 71% more...
View ArticleReader Question: How can I set up a “Deny-by-Default” Conditional Access Policy?
It has been a while since I took a question from a reader and turned it into a blog post. It is one of my favorite things to do here on ITProMentor, but the “busy-ness” of life has taken me away from...
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But have you turned multifactor authentication ALL the way on?
Do you remember just a short time ago, Microsoft would claim that switching on Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) prevents 99.9% of identity-based attacks? Well, the times they are a-changin. I do not...
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