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Entra Self Service Password Reset - Common Microsoft 365 Security Mistakes Series

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 11:32:34 +0000

It’s a trope in IT circles: users forget their passwords. The greater your scale, the more time this can occupy with tickets, service desk calls, and so on. If you use Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure Active Directory), self service password reset (SSPR) is a capability that can help reduce this overhead. SSPR offers a user-driven admin-less approach, where users verify they are authorised to reset forgotten passwords then can do so.

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management - Common Microsoft 365 Security Mistakes Series

Sat, 03 Feb 2024 10:57:52 +0000

Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management (MDVM) is an often overlooked service that can be licensed standalone or is included in other Microsoft Defender licenses. In my experience, I’ve never seen it licensed standalone, but customers with Defender for Endpoint (MDE) P2, Defender for Servers (MDS) P1, and Defender for Business (MDB) benefit from it’s core capabilities. In addition to the core capabilities, add-on capabilities are available in the standalone license, Defender for Servers P2, or as an upgrade to the P1 licenses.

Security Hygiene, Azure Security Center, and Secure Score

Sun, 01 Aug 2021 16:17:21 +0000

The basics

Let’s start this article with some basic cybersecurity terminology. Security hygiene, or cyber hygiene, is a general term used to describe the ongoing practice of keeping your technology and IT estate in a healthy and protected state. The metaphor with physical hygiene is valid because we know with our bodies that there’s no such thing as “set it and forget it”: if we don’t maintain regular hygiene practices and exercise, we atrophy. It’s a continual effort comprised of daily discipline, habit, and ritual.