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Azure AD Application proxy and some previews

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 26/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Application Proxy, Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Entra, Hybrid, Identity, Identity Platform, On-premises, Security

Azure AD Application proxy is an essential tool for providing access to your on-premises applications. In the past you could use it as a reverse proxy to internal Web-based (accessible with browser) applications and you could define One URI per…

Section 8.2 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud – Configure and respond to alerts and incidents in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 23/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Defender, Identity, SC-200, Security, Study guide

And this is the second part of 8th section on my study guide and today we are looking at recommendations and the alerts and incidents it will create. Again by apologies to all that had to wait as I cut…

Azure AD External Identities with SAML IdP part 2 of 2

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 12/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Azure B2B, Azure B2C, Identity, Identity Platform, Security

In this part we will see the end-user experience and what you could use instead of Direct federation. SAML-based External IdP can be also done with federating your cloud-based domains. The idea and the concept is the same but in…

Section 7 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud – Plan and implement the use of data connectors for ingestion of data sources in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 09/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure ARC, Azure Automation, Defender, Identity, Microsoft Graph, On-premises, SC-200, Security, Study guide

Continuing the journey with Defender for cloud. This time we will see Data source, how to onboard Azure resources and Azure ARC integration. With the exponential rise of cloud services, companies now place a high priority on protecting cloud workloads….

Azure (AD) recommendations with some explanations

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 08/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Azure Policies, Defender, Identity, Identity Platform, Microsoft Graph, Security

This post is on recommendations, so here is my personal red alert type recommendation for all. You still have 83 days, give or take to establish a migration from ADAL to MSAL. Read from more Learn In the past months…

Azure AD External Identities with SAML IdP part 1 of 2

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 05/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Azure B2B, Hybrid, Identity, Identity Platform, Security

In the picture above, you can see how Conditional Access will evaluate those guest users. The majority of users who are typically thought of as guests fall into this category. This B2B collaboration user has guest-level access in your organization…

Section 6 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud – Implement and maintain cloud security posture management and workload protection

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 02/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Defender, Identity, KQL, SC-200, Security

Then we go to Defender for Cloud and starting with the planning part. Let’s get going! Be sure to check the previous chapters, you will need that information to understand to journey that we are on. Plan and configure Microsoft…

Section 5 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft 365 Defender – Manage extended detection and response (XDR) in Microsoft 365 Defender

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 26/03/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Defender, Identity, KQL, SC-200, Security, Study guide

Today we will be discovering XDR with Microsoft 365 Defender. It will be an central hub for many different scenarios. Although you will have interfaces inside Azure portal for Sentinel and Defender for Cloud but you can get those signals…

Azure AD Privileged Identity Management and new features

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 08/03/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Conditional access, Identity, Identity Platform, Microsoft Purview, PIM, Security, Zero trust

What is PIM? PIM has and will be a backbone for permission Just In Time access in Microsoft based environments. You can easily assign Permanent roles but also Eligible roles for admins and define timeout for the roles. They either…

Section 4 – Mitigate identity threats part 2 of 2

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 05/03/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Active Directory, ADFS, Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Certificates, Conditional access, Cross-tenant, Defender, Entra, Hybrid, Identity, On-premises, SC-200, Security, Zero trust

Identity protecting is challenging if you don’t know what you should protect and when you do, you should know how to protect it. In the second part we will be discovering more on Conditional Access as a dynamic boundary in…

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