Microsoft managed Authentication Methods Policy (Preview)

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…

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Azure MFA migration tool and how to setup MFA NPS extension

Well, this is nice. Microsoft has released a migration tool to get rid of your On-premises MFA server. Scenarios Moving the registered MFA phone numbers is only part of the migration from MFA Server to Azure AD Multi-Factor Authentication. The…

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Automatic assignment policy in Entitlement management

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…

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Section 6 – Design security for infrastructure – Design a strategy for securing SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services

Time for the next section to my SC-100 study guide: Specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services Specify security requirements for IoT workloads Specify security requirements for data workloads, including SQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse and Azure…

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Section 5 – Design security for infrastructure – Design a strategy for securing server and client endpoints

Wednesday is here and time for the next post to my SC-100 exam cram. NOTE: includes hybrid and multi-cloud Specify security baselines for server and client endpoints Specify security requirements for servers, including multiple platforms and operating systems Specify security…

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TOTP globally available for Azure AD B2C

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….

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Section 3 – Design a Zero Trust strategy and architecture – Design an identity security strategy

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…

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Microsoft Entra Verified ID went GA!

Back in 2018 Microsoft joined ID2020 alliance and started collaborating with Accenture and Avanade on a blockchain-based identity prototype for Azure. The intention was to give people means to identify them selves easily. And finally Yesterday Microsoft released the final product!…

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