Category Entra & Identity

Automate Your Onboarding and Offboarding in 15 Minutes with Entra Identity Governance

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Onboarding and offboarding employees manually can lead to errors, delays, and compliance risks. With Microsoft Entra Identity Governance, you can automate these processes in just 15 minutes—no scripting required. Discover how to streamline user lifecycle management, enhance security, and maintain compliance with Entra’s powerful workflows and customisable extensions. Perfect for organisations looking to save time, reduce costs, and improve efficiency.

Strengthening Cloud Governance and Resilience with Microsoft

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Effective cloud governance is critical in today’s digital landscape. Organisations must tackle risks, ensure compliance, and design resilient architectures to meet directives like NIS2. This guide outlines six essential steps to achieve robust cloud governance using Microsoft tools like Azure Service Health, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, and Azure Backup. From mitigating concentration risks to preparing exit strategies, learn how to enhance your governance framework and protect your operations.

Introducing Microsoft Entra’s “Request on Behalf”: A Better Way to Manage Temporary Access Passes

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Discover how Microsoft Azure AD's new "Request on Behalf" feature revolutionises the management of Temporary Access Passes (TAPs). This feature simplifies access workflows for IT admins and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) by enabling requests to be made on behalf of others, enhancing efficiency, governance, and security across multiple tenants. Learn how to configure and implement this feature for a smoother, more secure access management process.

Why Password Policies Matter and How Often to Update Them

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In today’s digital age, securing online accounts goes beyond just choosing a strong password. Frequent password changes, once seen as a key security measure, may actually do more harm than good. This blog explores the latest insights from NIST and Microsoft, highlighting why password policies should focus on long, complex passwords and multi-factor authentication (MFA) instead of arbitrary resets. We’ll also dive into the future of security: passwordless authentication. Discover how businesses and individuals can embrace these modern practices to enhance security and reduce password fatigue.

Microsoft 365 DSC: Automate, Configure, and Monitor Like a Pro

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Discover how Microsoft 365 Desired State Configuration (DSC) empowers IT professionals to automate, monitor, and maintain tenant configurations with ease. This blog dives into the benefits of DSC, including drift prevention and multi-tenant synchronization, while providing a step-by-step guide for deployment. Learn from real-life examples covering Exchange Online, Intune, and Entra, and explore additional resources to streamline your configuration management. Whether you're using DSC, Azure Runbooks, or Terraform, find the tools to optimize your automation strategy. Read on to master tenant management!

Comprehensive Guide to Setting Up Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access (GSA) with Internet Access, Licensing, and Key Differences with SSE

Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access (GSA)

Learn how to implement Microsoft Entra Global Secure Access (GSA) for secure internet access. This step-by-step guide covers everything from activating GSA for your tenant to configuring web content filtering, security profiles, and conditional access policies. Understand the key differences between GSA and Security Service Edge (SSE) and how to improve your organisation's security posture. Plus, find out about licensing updates and how to enhance Microsoft Entra ID capabilities.

Unlocking DUDE: A Guide to Dynamic User and Device Enumeration

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DUDE (Dynamic User and Device Enumeration) is a powerful tool for IT administrators to automate the process of retrieving and managing user and device data from Azure AD. Leveraging Microsoft Graph API and PowerShell, DUDE streamlines security monitoring, compliance reporting, and device management. This guide covers its architecture, setup, common use cases, and real-world applications to enhance IT workflows. Learn how DUDE can save time and ensure up-to-date, compliant IT environments.

Secure Your Intune Environment with Multi-Admin Approval: Everything You Need to Know

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Multi-Admin Approval (MAA) is a security feature introduced in March 2023 in Microsoft Intune, enhancing security by requiring multiple admin approvals for high-risk actions. This powerful tool helps prevent unauthorised changes, reduces risks, and supports compliance. In this guide, we’ll explore how MAA works, its benefits, required licences, and provide a step-by-step tutorial on setting it up to safeguard your Intune environment.

Entra ID Conditional Access Baseline

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Every spring, as fresh interns arrive, they’re tasked with creating a Conditional Access baseline. While the concept may seem simple, these young minds continually surprise with innovative approaches to security, reminding us that building a robust foundation is an ever-evolving process.

Microsoft Announces Enhanced Data Protection in Copilot for Enterprises

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Next month, Microsoft is rolling out significant updates to its free Copilot service for users with a Microsoft Entra account. These updates will introduce Enterprise Data Protection (EDP) at no additional cost, extending robust security, privacy, and compliance measures to Copilot’s prompts and responses. Additionally, users will benefit from a new, simplified, ad-free interface tailored for work and education, further enhancing productivity and data security.

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