Microsoft 365 security is a big topic. Focus is important when it comes to getting things done. In this article, we suggest five areas that administrators could work on during 2023 to improve the security posture of their tenant. You might already have established full control over some of these areas. Even if you have, it's still good to consider if you can improve security.
This week on Practical Protection, Paul discusses the history of passwords and the many problems they pose in the modern cloud-based world.
At the TEC 2022 conference, Alex Weinert, Microsoft VP for Identity, outlined the need to deploy Azure AD MFA to protect accounts in Microsoft 365 tenants. Only 26.64% of all Azure AD accounts use MFA today, and while that percentage has grown from 1.8% in 2018, it's still disappointing.
We all know to turn on MFA but sometimes we need to share our stories to get corporate buy-in to do it. In this Fun Friday post, Mike Weaver, Chris Cahill and Bryan Patton get real on what happens when MFA isn’t enabled.
The Microsoft 365 ecosystem is a big place and it's hard to keep on top of everything. But to start 2022 off with a bang, here are five areas for tenant administrators to consider when they plan how they'll spend their time in the new year. As always, feel free to disagree and add comments describing what you plan to do in 2022.
Microsoft has released two new features to help Multi-factor authentication for Azure AD accounts work smarter and better. It's possible to implement number matching and additional context for MFA challenges in 30 minutes, and the two increase the security of MFA. It's something that every Microsoft 365 tenant administrator should consider, as we explain here.
Microsoft MVP’s Michael Van Horenbeeck and our Co-Chief Editor Sigi Jagott discuss the benefits of going to smaller events, AD FS and MFA.
How the Azure Active Directory baseline security policy enforces multi-factor authentication for privileged administrator accounts in Office 365 and Azure AD.
Microsoft is rolling out a change from August 2017 for Azure Active Directory conditional access policies to begin applying to the Office 365 portal.
How to protect Office 365 administrator accounts by enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA).
A security researcher claims that Exchange has a vulnerability that allows Exchange Web Services to be accessed by bypassing multi-factor authentication.
