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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...

PhilosophyCIS Controls, MED, Pit of End User Despair, zero trust2 Comments

But have you turned multifactor authentication ALL the way on?

Do you remember just a short time ago, Microsoft would claim that switching on Multi-factor Authentication (MFA) prevents 99.9% of identity-based attacks? Well, the times they are a-changin. I do not know what they would report today for a percentage of attacks which are thwarted by MFA alone, but...

TechnicalAzure AD, Conditional access, device management, Entra, FIDO2, MFA, Microsoft 365, passwordless, security, Security defaults, TAP, zero trust12 Comments

Reader Question: How can I set up a “Deny-by-Default” Conditional Access Policy?

It has been a while since I took a question from a reader and turned it into a blog post. It is one of my favorite things to do here on ITProMentor, but the “busy-ness” of life has taken me away from the keyboard a lot in recent months. Now...

QuestionAzure AD, Conditional access, Cybersecurity, Microsoft 365, secure-by-default, zero trust0 Comments

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Try not to take Zero Trust too literally

But have you turned multifactor authentication ALL the way on?

Reader Question: How can I set up a “Deny-by-Default” Conditional Access Policy?

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