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26Nov2024
How do we go from “Zero” to “Hero” with Microsoft 365?
Or, in what order should we tackle our Microsoft 365 projects & adoption? This is a question that comes up a lot. Microsoft 365 is a huge product on its own, to say nothing of the ever-expanding marketplace to which it is tied. With the year winding down and the...
30Sep2024
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...
29Aug2024
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?...
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