Migrating your Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) integrated SaaS applications to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) provides many benefits. For example, Azure AD B2B lets you give your business partners and customers access to your organization’s applications without creating a user account in AD or Azure AD.
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Do you know how to protect organizational data on mobile devices without affecting personal data? Are you aware of the policies required to implement a strong foundation for protecting your organizational data on users’ mobile devices?
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One of the most important security controls in an Active Directory (AD) forest is the prevention of privilege escalation paths. The tiered access model for AD introduces a significant number of technical controls that reduce the risk of privilege escalation.
The workstation an administrator uses to perform privileged tasks such as managing Active Directory (AD) is a high-value target for a potential adversary. By providing administrators with a clean keyboard, PAWs isolate privileged accounts from the risks of a compromised workstation.
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Strong identity management practices are critical if you want to be able to adequately secure your Microsoft Azure subscriptions. For most organizations, the foundation begins with your on-premises Active Directory (AD) forest. Microsoft offers several add-on features in Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) Premium (AADP) that you can use to further secure access to
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Ensuring that your user identities are protected from modern attack vectors such as phishing schemes and credential leaks should be a critical part of your enterprise security strategy. When attackers gain access to a traditional user account, they can often use this access to elevate to higher privilege and gain greater control of your environment. Although controls such as multi-factor authentication (MFA) are often an effective preventative measure, factoring in
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Passwords are an insecure authentication mechanism. They are often easily guessed, and the computing power necessary to crack passwords is readily available. Although many organizations have the goal of switching to an entirely password-less authentication system, most companies cannot do so immediately. Legacy applications, user behavior, hardware, and more must be transformed in order to support a password-less model. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is a solution that mitigates the risk of
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We’re frequently asked how to enable compliance notifications for devices enrolled in Microsoft Intune. Although this task isn’t difficult, there are numerous ways to easily misconfigure it. The basic requirements are straightforward. You’ll need an Entra (formerly Azure AD) tenant with users that are licensed for Intune (either directly or as part of another license
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Our automated AD DS health check process looks at hundreds of configuration settings, including DNS, FSMO roles, replication, sites and subnets, Group Policy, performance indicators, backup procedures, security settings, patching, operating system settings, and more. Through automated data collection, we can quickly gather all of this data to analyze it and make remediation recommendations.
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Learn how to find out what security groups grant access to the MIM Synchronization Service
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