In early December 2022, Rackspace had a major breach in their exchange environment that led to customers' mail data being stolen. This article explains what happened and what can be learned from this incident.
In this week's episode of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux discusses two lesser-known Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDCA) features: cloud discovery and the cloud app catalog. Both of which are very useful when evaluating cloud apps for use in your environment.
It Is known that Microsoft encrypts data both at rest and in transit, but is this enough protection for your documents? In this article, Paul Robichaux goes over adding an extra layer of protection through Double-Key and Customer Key Encryption.
A thorough understanding of what Defender for Office 365 can do is important as you consider how best to protect your tenant. In this edition of Practical Protection, Paul deep dives into the umbrella brand of Microsoft Defender and its individual products.
This week on Practical Protection, Paul discusses the history of passwords and the many problems they pose in the modern cloud-based world.
Welcome to the first installment of Practical Protection with Paul Robichaux. Paul illustrates four general security principles and talks about how you can practically apply them to your Exchange environment.
Based on his recent TEC talk session, Paul Robichaux explains what throttling is, how it works, and how to avoid it!
Microsoft recently released Exchange Server Support for Windows Extended Protection. Learn how it works and how to enable it!
Organizations can block macro execution by applying policies to Office apps. This article shows how with the Office cloud policy service (OCPS), a web-based tool included with all Office 365 plans that lets you define and apply policy settings to Microsoft 365 for enterprise apps through a cloud-based console.
Follina and DogWalk are both vulnerabilities arising from the bundled Windows diagnostics toolset. Microsoft hasn’t released any patches for these yet, but Defender will block Follina and there are various other mitigations strategies discussed in this post.
Paul Robichaux explains recent changes in how Microsoft 365 Apps Channels updates are deployed and why it matters to you. He'll also cover how to effectively control which users have which versions of the apps and when, and how, those apps will be upgraded.
Backing up Azure AD may sound like a counterintuitive concept to many. However, in this article, we examine several reasons aside from Disaster Recovery that support why this is good practice for enterprise organizations, now more than ever.
