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How to Properly Secure and Govern Microsoft Entra ID Apps

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Sander Berkouwer

Microsoft Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory (AD), is Microsoft’s cloud-native identity management platform. It only takes one compromised Entra ID user account to consent to a rogue app that siphons all the user’s Microsoft 365 data or to take over their mailbox. Business Email Compromise (BEC) amounts to $8 million in losses on a…

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Microsoft Entra ID App Registration and Enterprise App Security Explained

Posted on October 19, 2023 by Sander Berkouwer

One of the main reasons that application governance is often overlooked, as it relates to an organization’s cloud security posture, is because the topic is not fully understood. . However, it is vitally important to understand the fundamentals of Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) – tenants, app registrations, enterprise apps, and consent –…

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Mitigating Identity-Related Risks With Windows Hello for Business and Seamless Single Sign-On (SSO)

Posted on June 26, 2023 by Sander Berkouwer

These days, document theft and data siphoning are common for most ransomware gangs. Because digital theft is different from analog theft, digital security should be different from analog security. In this article, we’ll explore how Windows Hello for Business and seamless single sign-on (SSO) can help organizations to mitigate many identity-related risks. We’re holding on…

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Hybrid Identity Protection comes in many shapes; Meet Azure AD Connect Health

Posted on March 13, 2019 by Sander Berkouwer

Information protection consists of three pillars: confidentiality, integrity and availability. Hybrid Identity is no different; the three pillars still apply. However, availability is hard for Azure AD Connect. As a key link in the Hybrid Identity chai… Continue reading Hybrid Identity Protection comes in many shapes; Meet Azure AD Connect Health→

Active Directory Change Resiliency

Posted on July 18, 2018 by Sander Berkouwer

Last month, I have had many discussions with many people on Active Directory Backup and Restore. Now, the obvious topics to talk about are disaster recovery and forest recovery. Of course, we talked about these, but in many of the discussions last mont… Continue reading Active Directory Change Resiliency→

The Cloud Identity Dilemma

Posted on May 10, 2018 by Sander Berkouwer

I feel the dilemma ‘Between a rock and a hard place’ applies to many medium-sized businesses when it comes to cloud identity in the face of Microsoft retargeting their identity investment towards the cloud. These organizations may be too bi… Continue reading The Cloud Identity Dilemma→

Trees Falling in a Forest: Chronicles of a Data Breach

Posted on April 10, 2018 by Sander Berkouwer

“If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?” Although the sub-title for this article is a philosophical question, asked by George Berkeley in 1710, it proved to be completely relevant over 300 years l… Continue reading Trees Falling in a Forest: Chronicles of a Data Breach→