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When You Should Disable Azure AD Security Defaults

Security Defaults is a control in Azure Active Directory which has been around since 2019 and is enabled by default on new tenants created after October 2019. Microsoft recently announced they will now start turning on Azure AD security defaults for existing tenants. Throughout this blog we will explore what this means and if Security Defaults is the right fit for your organization.

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Microsoft Plans Big Security Improvement for Unprotected Office 365 Tenants

Microsoft plans to enable Azure AD Security Defaults for Office 365 tenants created prior to October 2019. The move will protect an additional 60 million Azure AD accounts against common attacks by enforcing MFA more broadly. It's a big deal in terms of improving the overall security posture of Office 365. If you don't want to use Security Defaults, tenant administrators can switch them off.

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If You’re Serious About Compliance, You Need Office 365 E5

Organizations have lots of choice in terms of the licenses they buy to use Office 365 and Microsoft 365 functionality. If you're interested in compliance and data governance, maybe the Office 365 E5 plan delivers the best combination of functionality and price. Let's see what the numbers say.

Deploying Microsoft Intune Security Baselines

One of the most important requirements for organizations that wish to use Intune is the security baseline of the device. There are differences between the guidance provided by NCSC, CIS, and Microsoft’s pre-configured security baselines for Intune. This article explains the guidance from each organization, while providing a gap analysis between the baselines.

Why Azure AD Backup is Needed

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.

Protecting Administrator Mailboxes from Phishing and Other Threats

One way to protect administrator mailboxes is not to use them. And if you want administrators to use separate mailboxes for their permissioned and non-permissioned activities, that's what you might do. However, we can be smarter and use transport rules to selectively block email sent to administrator mailboxes to dissuade internal people from sending email and blocking all but the most essential email coming in from external domains.

Ten Ways to Harden the Security of Your Microsoft 365 Tenant – Part 2

Over the years, the Microsoft security stack has become very feature rich and offers many ways to customize the configuration. Third-party products are available with similar features, but lack the integration capability of the Microsoft stack. In the second part of the "Ten Ways to Harden the Security of Your Microsoft 365 Tenant" series, we look at five ways to secure your environment using controls that require a premium license such as Office E5 or Azure AD Premium.

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