Monthly Archives - August 2019

Protecting extra-sensitive accounts and data sets in Microsoft 365, Part 2: Apps and Data

Last time we looked at some additional identity-based protections that are possible via additional subscriptions like Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 (which contains Azure AD Premium P2). In this post, we'll work within the same framework, but shift our focus from identity, towards protections which can be applied to apps and...
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Poser alert: Do you think this may be leveraged for Social engineering? Or what…?

Interesting thing appeared in my WordPress comments over the weekend: it appears that someone lifted content from my blog and re-posted it as their own. Why or how WordPress picked up on this and alerted me via my comments is unknown at this time (maybe some WordPress geeks out there...
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Protecting extra-sensitive accounts and data sets in Microsoft 365, Part 1: Identity

As I have previously pointed out on this blog before, all of the best security products, like Microsoft Cloud App Security or Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, are held hostage in E5 plans. But there is a really big cost delta in the SMB space between the Business plan and...
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Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive best practices? Part 3: Data governance

In part 1 of this series, we discussed external sharing and chat. In part 2, we dealt with access controls and notifications. Now, we turn our focus to Data governance, a very important conversation indeed when it comes to compliance. And when it comes to compliance, every organization is going to...
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Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive best practices? Part 2: Access control and notifications

In part 1 of this series we discussed how there is really no such thing as "best practices" on a rich and flexible collaboration platform like Office 365, which includes many applications--Teams, SharePoint and OneDrive to name just a few. However, you can certainly end up with some "bad" practices...
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Updated: Exchange Online baseline / best practices scripts

I recently updated the scripts that I use to provision new Exchange Online tenants and configure them according to best practices, and I just uploaded these edits to GitHub. The main script is Baseline-ExchangeOnline.ps1--this is like a "master" script that contains almost all of the others (with a couple of...
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