29Aug2024
13Jul2024
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...
29Jun2024
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...
31May2024
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...
16Apr2024
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...
29Feb2024
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...
04Jan2024
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...
24Nov2023
Happy Holidays, and a New Course
Hey everyone, I just wanted to send out a quick note about the new course on CIS Controls, and to extend a Holiday discount on all of the ITProMentor.com courses in honor of the whole Black Friday/Cyber Monday thing. So, let's get that out of the way first: Now through the...
27Oct2023
Try not to take Zero Trust too literally
The world of modern medicine uses this term “minimal effective dose” or MED. The idea is to find the optimal balance between efficacy and toxicity, or benefit and cost, of a given intervention. For example, what is the minimum dose or concentration required of a drug to produce the desired...
07Sep2023