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Practical Protection: MFA is Coming for You, Ready or Not 

Whether you like it or not, MFA is coming for you! You can either deploy and support MFA for your users, or Microsoft is going to do it for you. The choice is yours. Learn more about how Microsoft will be enforcing MFA in the future, and what you should do.

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Practical Protection: Limiting the Damage from Local Admin Accounts

Because of the way the Windows security model works, it’s not currently possible to eliminate the use of passwords for local administrator accounts. Given that fact, the next best solution is to remediate the biggest problems with passwords for these local accounts, including weakness, reuse, and tenure. In this article, we discuss how the Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) helps with all of those!

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Practical Protection: Baby Steps Towards Zero Trust 

Implementing zero trust in the world is a big hassle, often uncomfortable, and frequently dorky—plus, it can be expensive. At the same time, moving closer to a zero trust model helps harden your network significantly, and you may already have many of the tools and techniques you need available without much extra cost. In this article, we discuss how to take baby steps toward Zero Trust.

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Practical Protection: Keeping Track of Office Patch Updates

Managing Office updates is one of those thankless tasks, like taking out the recycling, that is sometimes wearisome but contributes to making the world a better place. This article covers how you can keep track of these updates, and what can go wrong if you don't.

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Practical Protection: Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hybrid

Hybrid work is really a mixed blessing—while it offers a lot of fantastic benefits for people who are able to take advantage of it, it can introduce some new and unpleasant security issues that you need to be prepared to deal with. This article dives into these new risks and how you can avoid them.

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Practical Protection: And Now for Something Completely Different

Practical 365 is very focused on discussing management and administration of Microsoft 365 environments. In this edition of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux pivots away from Microsoft and looks at another ecosystem that you might have in your network: VMware’s ESXi.

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