Category: security

Conditional Access in Defender for Cloud (MCAS)

I was asked this question last week at Microsoft Ignite following a talk that I did, and as it was a question it was clearly not as clear cut as maybe I thought it was. The question was, “why is Conditional Access found in Azure AD and Defender for Cloud?” (Defender for Cloud was previously… Continue reading Conditional Access in Defender for Cloud (MCAS)

What Is “Multifactor Authentication Trusted IPs”

In Azure AD for location based conditional access rules you can select “Multifactor Authentication Trusted IPs” as a location. This short blog post outlines what this is. As an example of the use of this location, it could be used as follows in Conditional Access: The location selected in the above is “Multifactor Authentication Trusted… Continue reading What Is “Multifactor Authentication Trusted IPs”

Allowing “Phish” Training Emails in Exchange Online

With the introduction of “Secure by Default” in Exchange Online, where you used to add IPs and other settings such as allow-lists to allow your phish training emails to get through to your users this will no longer work, and shortly it will no longer work to bypass the Exchange Online filters using mail flow… Continue reading Allowing “Phish” Training Emails in Exchange Online

Intune MAM Exemptions – Discovering URL Protocols

In Microsoft Intune you can create a secure container where the data in your apps cannot leak outside of. That is, you can restrict copy/paste outside of the supported apps and restrict opening the data in a different app. But sometimes you need to open the data in a different app and with the Intune… Continue reading Intune MAM Exemptions – Discovering URL Protocols

[New] External Email Notification in Exchange Online

This is a new feature released in March 2021 that adds support in Outlook (Mac, OWA, Mobile) for the display of the external status of the sender – note at the time of writing it does not add this feature to Outlook for the PC. This should be used to replace the way this has… Continue reading [New] External Email Notification in Exchange Online

Impact of Removing SMS As an MFA Method In Azure AD

There are a number of general recommendations that SMS (text messages) as an MFA method is not a good idea (mainly to do with the ease of porting or moving devices the number is associated with). You should always be looking at MFA with an app (Microsoft Authenticator or other) or hardware device. But the… Continue reading Impact of Removing SMS As an MFA Method In Azure AD

Register For Azure AD MFA From On-Premises Or Known Networks Only

A long request within Azure AD/Office 365 has been the request to be able to register your security info from a known location or only on certain other conditions. Well it looks like this has appeared in Azure AD in the last few days!! Its visible under Azure AD > Conditional Access > New/Existing Policy… Continue reading Register For Azure AD MFA From On-Premises Or Known Networks Only

Improving Password Security In the Cloud and On-Premises

Passwords are well known to be generally insecure the way users create them. They don’t like “complex” passwords such as p9Y8Li!uk%al and so if they are forced to create a “complex” password due to a policy in say Active Directory, or because their password has expired and they need to generate a new one, they… Continue reading Improving Password Security In the Cloud and On-Premises

Forcing Transport Level Secure Email With Exchange Online

In Exchange Online there are a few different options for forcing email to require an encrypted connection. These depend upon the level of licence you have, and some of them are user based (Office 365 Message Encryption for example), but there are two ways to force TLS (transport layer security) for the email between when… Continue reading Forcing Transport Level Secure Email With Exchange Online