Yearly Archives - 2024

Essential Eight Revisited

The Australian Essential Eight: The Most Bang for Your Cybersecurity Buck?

A few years ago, I wrote a blog post about the Australian Essential Eight. I wanted to raise awareness and draw wider attention to this handy little framework (it is well known in Australia, of course, just not so much in the rest of the world). Now...
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When should I upgrade my Microsoft 365 subscription?

When Should I Upgrade my Microsoft 365 Subscription?

I get some form of this question pretty often. It’s been on my backburner for ages to write an article that covers this topic, so that I can more easily point people to it. The question usually goes something like this: I currently have X subscription. Is this good enough?...
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Microsoft Entra Private Access

Global Secure Access for the SMB, Part 2: Private Access

I have previously written about Microsoft’s Global Secure Access for the SMB. This is actually two products under a single banner: Microsoft Entra Internet Access Microsoft Entra Private Access In my first article, I focused on Microsoft Entra Internet Access, since this is where the majority of Small...
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Personal vs. Company owned devices

Should I allow personal laptops or stick with company owned?

Today's post is based on a reader question. Hey Alex, I am trying to figure out how to talk to my client about personal vs. work-owned laptops. Right now, they have a mix of both. I am a bit confused because Microsoft makes it seem like they have the tools to secure...
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Updated Intune Scripts and a Security Profile for the SMB

Updated Intune Scripts and a Security Profile for the SMB

Some years ago, Microsoft published a repo on GitHub describing how to use PowerShell to interact with the Microsoft Graph and create/manipulate objects within Intune. This was soon followed by another project, where they published three "Security profiles" as pictured below: Image credit: Microsoft Most of the configurations required...
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Global Secure Access for the SMB

Global Secure Access: Is it for the SMB?

A couple of months ago, I presented a session on Microsoft Entra's Global Secure Access (GSA), which is really two products under a single unifying banner. Image credit: Microsoft Almost nobody in the audience had heard of Global Secure Access before. Granted, it was (and still is) fairly new, but I was...
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Multi-tenant 365

My Favorite Multi-tenant Tools for Microsoft 365 Cloud

Today I want to address something that Managed Services Providers in particular struggle with daily. And that is managing dozens if not hundreds of Microsoft tenants, each of which represents a unique security boundary, with its own set of users, devices, licenses, security configurations, and so on. This problem is...
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Cross-Tenant Access Restrictions

Understanding Cross-Tenant Access Settings: Inbound & Outbound Settings Vs. Tenant Restrictions

Before we dive headfirst into the Cross-Tenant Access Settings including the new Tenant Restrictions, let us just quickly review one other area in the Microsoft Entra portal that deals with External collaboration. Based on some recent questions received, I think folks often get these all these concepts jumbled up and...
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