Category: Identity

First I wanted to mention the link problems inside Azure Portals. For a while and for some people portal.azure.com didn’t show the Authentication strengths in their portal, this has now been fixed in normal Azure portal. Entra portal on the…

In simplified terms there is two different ways to build a cloud service. Cloud-based or Cloud native Hybrid There is also different possibilities to federate Identities between Cloud service providers but also with Federation services through on-premises environment. Azure AD…

The scenario You have a Windows server with a public IP-address and RDP (TCP 3389) is exposed to internet. And there is still over 3 million open TCP 3389 ports out there. Stupid right but if you are one of…

What is Secure score? Microsoft releases suggestions on security settings that should be turned on to enhance your security posture against external and internal threats. You’re given points for the following actions: Configuring recommended security features Doing security-related tasks Addressing…

And there you have it, this is the last section in my study guide. This time made longer posts, hopefully they weren’t too long to read. Stay tuned for more! Specify priorities for mitigating threats to applications. Specify a security…

What Microsoft Managed is? With Microsoft Managed Settings, admins can trust Microsoft to enable a security feature they have not explicitly disabled. If the feature status is set to Microsoft-managed, it will be enabled by Microsoft at an appropriate time…

If you are not familiar with Entitlement management, read this first. Microsoft keeps evolving Azure AD Entitlement management solution, here is a feature added previously. And there is again a new feature added, let us see what it is. Automatic…

I wrote before a post about B2C in general, how to use our own custom domain thru Azure Front door and how to use custom policies. I prefer that you read these out to get clearer picture of B2C functionality….

And onward to the next section in my SC-100 study guide: Note: includes hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios! Design a strategy for access to cloud resources Recommend an identity store (tenants, B2B, B2C, hybrid) Recommend an authentication strategy Recommend an authorization…

Microsoft is all the time consolidating their various different portals, they already removed multiple portals during recent years. Here is a full list of the current ones, sigh! Turn on Preview features Required permissions Accounts assigned the following Azure Active…