Author: Harri Jaakkonen

Using attack simulator for user education and gather insights.

This is part 2 of compliance and user governance. Here is part 1. Attack simulator is a tool for educating users and gathering insights on what they do wrong or right. Who can use it? If your organization has Microsoft…

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Why to use Compliance Manager for assessments and attack simulator to educate users.

Today I will be talking about Compliance Manager and in next part about Attack Simulator and why they matter for your organization. Compliance is based on organization industry or customer requirements. Compliance improves your security posture. It will help you…

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Why to go passwordless and how get there?

Password have always been a major headache for people. And always consultant have said that password complexity matters, there any a lot of pages providing to check how secure your password is. What then if your password will be cracked…

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SQL history and migration to Azure with security of Defender.

Hi, This time I will be blogging about SQL databases. First a little about history. SQL databases had (and still have) a significant part in the structure of a software. They contain storage for the data and configuration for nearly…

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Azure AD Entitlement Management

Hi all, Today’s post I will be discovering possibilities with Entitlement Management from Azure AD. First you have to understand that this solution isn’t a complete Identity and Access Management product (IAM) If you are looking for these, please see…

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MongoDB Cloud and Azure SSO with Okta

Two blog posts ago I blogged about #ChaosDB, which was concerning CosmoDB. Somehow in bright mind (at 0630am) I successfully switched CosmoDB to MongoDB. After my blog post got some attention a got a Twitter notification that I had wrote…

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Azure AD Connect family version 1.x deprecation On 31 August 2022.

Hi all, I just blogged about differences between AAD Connect and Cloud Sync Provisioning Agent. And today noticed on https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/reference-connect-version-history that Microsoft will be deprecating the first family versions of Azure AD Connect On 31 August 2022 “You need to…

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ChaosDB vulnerability and Azure Blob storage.

Probably by now you all have heard about CosmoDB vulnerability thru Jupyter notebooks, right? If not here is a recap. From the security researchers at Wiz they found a hole from Jupyter-notebooks allowing a full access to CosmoDB databases. “Rather,…

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Exchange and hybrid identity

Hi again, Now to my all-time favorite topic, Exchange covered with identity and security. How many times have see the error above when running HCW as an Exchange admin, I bet many and we will get to this later on….

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AAD Connect compared to new Azure Cloud sync

*Update: “Automate provisioning users from Azure AD into on-premises applications Azure AD now supports provisioning into on-premises applications, and we have a preview that we’re excited for you to deploy and share your feedback. You must have an Azure AD…

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