Category: yubikey
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Entra ID Account Recovery End To End (or How To Prove Who You Really Are When Recovering Your Identity in Microsoft 365)
Microsoft Entra ID account recovery is a new end-to-end way to prove your identity when you’ve lost access and standard sign-in methods no longer work. Instead of relying only on passwords or helpdesk intervention, the process uses stronger identity verification, such as document checks and live facial verification, to confirm that you are really the…
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Getting Rid of Passwords in Azure AD / Office 365
This article is based on the public preview of the use of hardware tokens/Microsoft Authenticator to do sign-in without passwords released in July 2019 Using Microsoft Authenticator for Passwordless Sign-in You used to be able to do this by running the following in PowerShell for the last few years New-AzureADPolicy -Type AuthenticatorAppSignInPolicy -Definition ‘{“AuthenticatorAppSignInPolicy”:{“Enabled”:true}}’ -isOrganizationDefault…
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Securing Your Windows 10 Login With Yubikey
The Yubikey is a small USB connected hardware device that can generate a variety of security codes. Being virtually indestructible and easy to clip to a key ring (Yubikey 4) or leave inside your only device (Yubikey 4 Nano) you can now use this token to login to Windows. Once you have got your token…