22Aug2023
28Apr2023
Why aren’t you protecting your mobile devices with Microsoft Defender?
Recently I was on a call with Microsoft, and I was surprised to hear that adoption for Microsoft Defender on mobile devices is still extremely low. But according to other industry partners, this is true of Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) solutions in general. I think this unfortunate trend could be...
18May2022
Making sense of the many DLP options for Microsoft 365
One of my readers wrote to me recently about an article that I penned a couple of years ago, on the topic of Data Loss Prevention in Microsoft 365. They pointed out that my breakdown was a bit dated now, and that the Microsoft universe seems to have become more...
25Apr2022
A Sneak Peek at Application Management for Edge
This blog has been active for at least six years. To this day, I probably receive more questions about BYOD and the various options we have for management with regard to personal devices, than any other topic that I have written about. I think this just goes to show the...
16Apr2021
Choosing (and implementing) your strategy for personal devices
In a recent Microsoft blog announcing some cool new discovery features in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, there is an interesting (but hardly surprising) statistic shared: your users are 71% more likely to be infected on an unmanaged device. Now the thrust of the article is around discovering assets in your environment...
24Sep2019
Azure AD Device States, revisited
I have an older article on Azure AD Device States already, but I wanted to quickly return to this topic. I have a few in the audience who are still confused about this. Notice the "Join type" column corresponding to the device state Azure AD Registered - A machine that shows...
14Sep2019
iPadOS breaks MAM-enforced Conditional Access?!
In case anyone missed it, this bombshell dropped last week: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4521038/action-required-update-conditional-access-policies-for-ipados In summary: when iPad gets updated to iOS 13+ at the end of this month, the OS will change from iOS to iPadOS. And when that happens, Azure AD will see these devices as macOS devices, not iOS...
04Sep2019
How to prevent users from circumventing MAM by going through OWA on mobile devices
One of my smart co-workers pointed out that my Conditional access baseline policies, as written, actually leave open the possibility that users could simply use OWA on their mobile devices, instead of using the Outlook app. And that means a user could bypass your protections such as encryption of app data,...
03Sep2019
PSA: Careful with MAM – there might be more to it than you think
I have written extensively on Mobile Application Management (MAM), as an alternative to Mobile Device Management (MDM). When implemented properly, it is the perfect solution for protecting company data on unmanaged devices (e.g. BYOD situations). But therein lies the rub. You need to implement it properly. I can't blame you...
15Jul2019