Practical Protection: Banning Apps with Intune
In this in episode of Practical Protection, we dive into some recent IT incidents involving applications, and how Intune can be used to block them from your devices.
February 24, 2025
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Practical Protection: Logging – What the Feds Say You’re Doing Wrong
In this episode of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux dives into CISA's Microsoft Expanded Cloud Logs Implementation Playbook, its prerequisites, and applying this advice into your organization.
February 5, 2025
Identifying Privileged Applications and Their Secret Passwords
Securing applications in an Entra tenant is crucial, especially after recent attacks like Midnight Blizzard. This article reviews how to use PowerShell to help identify privileged applications, their permissions, as well as client Secrets.
January 30, 2025
Practical Protection: Two Kinds of Bad
In this installment of practical protection, we dive into two kinds of crimes, and how you can practically apply that knowledge to securing your network and services within your organization.
January 15, 2025
Practical Sentinel: The Value of MITRE ATT&CK
In this episode of Practical Sentinel, we dive into the MITRE ATT&CK framework and how to integrate it within your environment through Microsoft Sentinel & Defender XDR.
January 14, 2025
Practical Protection: Heading Into 2025
With 2025 in full swing, it's time to do some reflecting! In this episode of practical protection, we look back at the major Microsoft security events in 2024 and how you can prepare yourself for what's to come in 2025.
January 6, 2025
Practical Protection: The Great “Connected Experiences” Panic of 2024
This episode of Practical Protection dives into connected experiences, what they are, and debunks some claims that were made regarding AI models using customer data via Connected Experiences.
December 11, 2024
Practical Sentinel: Adding Automation for Networking Data
In this episode of Practical Sentinel, we explain how to use Microsoft Sentinel’s SOAR capabilities to build automation on top of networking data through enrichments, automated actions, and threat intelligence integrations.
November 25, 2024
Practical Protection: Leveling up Conditional Access Policy Management
In this episode of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux provides a practical approach to Conditional Access Management, combining both the Beas and Microsoft frameworks.
November 6, 2024
Four Practical Tools and Strategies for Success with Conditional Access Policies
Many organizations still find it challenging to implement Conditional Access effectively. Luckily, there is a solution for this. In this blog, we share a new open-source framework, introducing 4 tools to help create and validate access policies and strategies, ensuring that security measures are effective and efficient.
October 30, 2024
Practical Protection: The 2024 Microsoft Digital Defense Report
It's that time of the year again! In this episode of Practical Protection, we review the 2024 Microsoft Digital Defense Report and offer our recommendations to protect against the emerging and current threat.
October 23, 2024
Practical Protection: Updating Your Password Policies
This week on Practical Protection, we are talking about Password Policies, what NIST thinks, and offer some advice on staying secure.
October 2, 2024