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Microsoft is disabling Basic authentication in an effort to improve data security in Exchange Online. Starting October 1, 2022, Microsoft will begin turning off Exchange Online Basic authentication. (For more information, see the Microsoft article “Deprecation of Basic authentication in Exchange Online”). As of September 2022, Microsoft has provided an update on guidance for the
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Are you ready to make the move to Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) single sign-on (SSO)? Do you want to avoid the complications of federated authentication for Microsoft 365? Are you unsure about switching your entire organization over at once? Entra ID’s cloud authentication staged rollout might be the answer. Background to Entra SSO Entra
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In a previous blog series, I discussed how to use certificate authentication for PowerShell scripts running in a standard Windows environment. (See “Authentication Options for Automated Azure PowerShell Scripts, Part 1: Service Account vs. App Registration,” as well as Part 2 and Part 3.) In this blog, I discuss remediating basic authentication in a different
In Part 1 of this blog post, we looked at what goes into thinking about and designing your automated access policies. As discussed, we want to first think about our policies in “natural language” before we dive into the technical implementation. We also covered the dynamic membership rules feature in Entra ID (formerly Azure Active
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Many organizations control access to internal systems by simply relying on whether or not an account is enabled. However, users often change roles throughout their careers within a single organization. For example, a user might start as an intern in one department and then be hired full-time in another department. After a few years, they
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Azure AD B2C offers authentication as a service. Knowing the trade-offs between out-of-the-box user flows and custom policies can be a huge advantage.
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Inactive accounts that aren’t disabled in a timely manner threaten your AD environment. Cleanup of these accounts is crucial to keeping an organization secure.
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Deciding who can access data is a key part of zero-trust. With Azure AD authentication contexts and other tools, you can do exactly this.
Until passwordless authentication is a more viable option, we must take steps to defend against password spray attacks. Azure Active Directory can help.
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