Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Web Content Filtering – Administration, Limitations, and User Experience
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Web Content Filtering – Administration, Limitations, and User Experience

Historically, one of the big features missing "out of the box" with MDATP was web content filtering.  Customers typically look at MDATP as an option when their existing endpoint security is due for license renewal, and compare their existing solution against it.  They would be moving from one of the big security vendors such as Sophos, Norton, and McAfee, which all supported web content filtering.  Higher lever stakeholders often listed the ability to block…
Sign In to Azure AD Using Google with Azure AD External Identities
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Sign In to Azure AD Using Google with Azure AD External Identities

External Identities is a new public preview feature of Azure AD which allows external users to authenticate with a non-Microsoft account such as their Google or Facebook identity.  This has been available in Azure AD B2C for some time, but that solution is really targetted at highly customised applications with potentially millions of users.  External Identities opens up that idea to you ordinary Azure AD tenant so that any SAML or WS-Fed IdP can…
The Differences Between (and History of) the Microsoft 365 Security Centre, Compliance Centre, and Security & Compliance
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The Differences Between (and History of) the Microsoft 365 Security Centre, Compliance Centre, and Security & Compliance

There are currently three separate admin consoles in Microsoft 365 for administrators to view or configure security and compliance policies, alerts, and reports.  Believe it or not, this is down from four at the peak of just-tell-me-where-to-go-to-do-this.  This doesn't even include consoles such as Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS).  The direction things are heading is good, as I'll explain in this blog, but the situation does highlight Microsoft's relatively new culture and position of…