Practical Protection: Outage Preparation
In the wake of the recent CrowdStrike outage, Paul Robichaux dives into what you and your organization should do to prepare for the next unforeseen Microsoft outage.
July 23, 2024
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Practical Protection: Baseline Office App Security with the Cloud Policy Service
Unless you have been around the Microsoft security world for a while, you might not be familiar with Office Cloud Policy Service (OCPS). In this blog, we review what OCPS is and what setting you should apply in your tenant.
July 8, 2024
TEC Tips: Email Protection Basics
Email is a primary target for breaches, making it crucial to have a strong line of defense for your email security. In this blog, we go over some Email Protection basics to help keep your organization safe.
July 2, 2024
Block Copilot Access to Individual Office Documents
A new sensitivity label setting blocks access to content services for Office applications. In effect, this stops any feature that depends on the ability to send content to Microsoft for processing, including Copilot for Microsoft 365, DLP, text prediction, and so on. It's a precise item-level block that protects sensitive documents from being consumed and used by Copilot in the text that it generates.
June 24, 2024
Practical Endpoint: Using KQL to Pull the Deployment Status of the Defender for Endpoint
Defender for Endpoint gathers system information to support operation and detection needs. We can then leverage that data to build a custom report to show the deployment status. This blog walks through that process using KQL.
June 18, 2024
Practical Protection: Protecting Your Enterprise Against Microsoft Recall
Microsoft already announced two sets of pre-release changes to Microsoft Recall that address some of its security issues. And there will undoubtedly be more. In this blog, we review your options to protect your organization against Microsoft Recall.
June 17, 2024
Using the Entra ID Enterprise SSO Plug-in on macOS
In this article, Paul Robichaux walks through the process of setting up the new Entra ID Enterprise SSO Plug-in on macOS.
June 11, 2024
Practical Protection: Adding Self-Service to BitLocker Recovery Key Access
In this Episode of Practical Protection, we talk about BitLocker's new self-service recovery key access feature.
June 4, 2024
Practical Protection: Copying Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative
Microsoft recently released a memo from Security VP, Charlie Bell. In this blog, we recap the memo and discuss some of the new security initiatives Microsoft is working towards.
May 16, 2024
Practical Protection: Understanding Entra ID and Passkeys
This Episode of Practical Protection is all about Passkeys, how they are different from other credential types, and how they could put an end to phishing.
May 7, 2024
Practical Protection: Breaches, Exposure, and You
In this edition of Practical Protection, Paul Robichaux dives into 5 steps you can take to protect yourself, and potentially your organization, from future breaches.
April 22, 2024
Practical Endpoint: Deploy Cloud-Based Windows LAPS to Windows Endpoints
Microsoft recently released a revamped version of LAPS that can store the local admin password in Entra ID to work with cloud-managed endpoints. In this blog, we dive into deploying LAPS and how to use it to further enhance the security of Windows endpoints.
April 18, 2024