Speaking at the MCT Summit Europe 2024

This year, the annual Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) summit will be held in the Netherlands. The event which takes place between 14-17 January will take place at location “De Loods” in Rijswijk which is near The Hague. The event has a limited capacity of 200 attendees, which guarantees an intimate and engaging experience.

At the event there will be technical sessions, inspirational sessions and softskill sessions, surrounded by social gatherings.

I have the pleasure of delivering two sessions at this event, the first session titled “Protecting your email environment using Exchange Online Protection & Microsoft Defender for Office” and the second session titled “Implementing and building advanced Azure AD Conditional Access scenarios“

Protecting your email environment using Exchange Online Protection & Microsoft Defender for Office

This session will take place on Tuesday January 16th at 16:25 local time at the René Kammer Square.

Abstract:

While Exchange Online Protection offers protection against SPAM, phishing and malware, you can add an extra layer of security by implementing Microsoft Defender for Office which adds additional phishing protection, safe links and safe attachment functionality. Just buying the products isn’t sufficient though for a good protection of your incoming and outgoing email.

In this session, Kenneth van Surksum, Microsoft MVP will explain how to configure your EOP and MDO environment using Microsoft best practices to build an environment capable of protecting your end users from the most common threats in your Exchange Online environment.

Implementing and building advanced Azure AD Conditional Access scenarios

This session will take place on Wednesday January 17th at 10:50 local time at the René Kammer Square.

Abstract:

So, you have built your Conditional Access rules and everything is working stable and as expected. Now it’s time to implement some more advanced scenario’s which you can achieve by using Conditional Access in combination with other Microsoft 365 products. By using these more advanced scenario’s we can meet more complex requirements when it comes to protecting the identity of the user, or protecting the company data stored in SaaS based applications like SharePoint.

In this session, Kenneth van Surksum, Microsoft MVP Enterprise Mobility + Security will go into more detail about filters for Apps and Workloads, Authentication Strength, Granular control for external users, Authentication context, integration with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Sensitivity labels and more.