Starting with Firefox version 91, Mozilla is now supporting Single sign-on support (SSO) and device-based Conditional Access as announced by Microsoft in the What’s new in Azure Active Directory for August 2021. The feature is still in Public Preview from a Microsoft point of view, and considered Advanced and experimental from a Mozilla point of…
Category: Security
Preventing account breaches leveraging SIM swapping techniques by nudging your users to start using the Microsoft authenticator app
The last couple of years, Microsoft has been pushing the usage of Multi Factor Authentication for logins to their Cloud Services. MFA, which requires that users authenticate with at least two factors, can reduce the risk of identity compromise by as much as 99.9 percent over passwords alone. Now that more and more companies are…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #28, Tuesday July 6, featuring Jeremy Moskowitz
Our # WPNinjasNL “Live – Ask us Anything” session planned for Tuesday June 29 has been rescheduled to Monday July 5th, you can still join the recording of this meeting with special guests John Gruszczyk, Product Manager at Microsoft and Stephen Rose Product Evangelist at Microsoft about Teams and Security by RSVP’ing on our meetup…
My session about Conditional Access at the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance User Group on June 30, 2021
On Wednesday June 30, I spoke at the monthly user group meeting of the Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance user group. The Microsoft 365 Security & Compliance user group is based in the UK and UK based user group consists of Alan Eardley (@al_eardley) and Peter Rising (@M365Rising) The meeting will started with a very…
A first look at Azure AD Conditional Access authentication context
During Microsoft Ignite in March this year, Microsoft announced several new upcoming functionalities for Azure Active Directory. One of the announcement was the Azure AD Conditional Access authentication context, for which I that time I already wrote about what it could do in my blog article: Modern Workplace Management key takeaways from the Microsoft Ignite…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #27 (Tomorrow), Tuesday June 22, featuring Peter Daalmans
For Tuesday, June 22 (yes, thats Tomorrow) we are proud to announce that our very own Peter Daalmans, Microsoft MVP Enterprise Mobility will host a session about: Ten practical tips to secure your corporate data with Microsoft 365 – 201906 edition Session abstract: Employees demanding access to your corporate data and apps on their often…
Our session about Modern Authentication at the May 2021 meetup of the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community #MC2MC
Yesterday, on Thursday May 27, Erik Loef and I delivered a session at the May virtual event of the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community. The Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community is a Belgian community with the following members: Tim de Keukelaere, Wim Matthyssen, Tim Hermie, Ken Goossens, Jasper Bernaers, Peter de Tender, Peter…
A first look at using Filters for devices as conditions in Azure AD Conditional Access policies
Earlier this month I wrote an article about using filtering in assignments for apps, compliance policies and configuration profiles in Microsoft Endpoint Manager. And now Microsoft has made available a preview of “Filters for devices” for use in your Azure AD Conditional Access policies. Because this functionality is provided as a preview there is no…
A first look at expediting Windows 10 Quality Updates when using Windows Update for Business and Microsoft Endpoint Manager
During Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced the option to bypass pre-configured Windows Update for Business policies to immediately deploy a security update across your organization when emergencies arise as part of their Windows Update for Business deployment service. Today, Microsoft has made available a preview of possibility to expedite the installation security patches as part of…
Speaking about Modern Authentication at the May 2021 meetup of the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community #MC2MC
On Thursday May 27, Erik Loef and I will speak at the May virtual event of the Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community. The Microsoft Cloud and Client Management Community is a Belgian community with the following members: Tim de Keukelaere, Wim Matthyssen, Tim Hermie, Ken Goossens, Jasper Bernaers, Peter de Tender, Peter Linders and…
Designing and configuring compliance policies for your Windows Modern Workplace using Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Measuring your managed systems against a baseline has been around for a while, in Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager(MECM)/ConfigMgr we can already use one or more Configuration Items combined in a Configuration Baseline to measure and remediate clients against an imported or self created baseline. You can measure for example if the Windows Firewall is enabled…
Configuring Windows Update for Business settings for your Microsoft Endpoint Manager managed Modern Workplace
Keeping Microsoft windows devices up-to-date has been a challenge I have been dealing with for a long time now. Within Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager/ConfigMgr getting grips on your updates was and is not an easy experience which you configure once and never have to touch again. If you in todays world are using Microsoft Endpoint…
Announcing #WPNinjasNL Tuesdays Webinar #22, Tuesday March 30, featuring Dirk-jan Mollema, security researcher at Fox-IT
For next week, Tuesday, March 30 we are proud to announce that Dirk-jan Mollema, one of the core researchers of Active Directory and Azure AD at Fox-IT will be hosting a session about: Azure, Conditional Access, Attackers and you – the present and future of attacks against the Microsoft Cloud. Session abstract: In a working-remote…
Have you already started your journey towards Passwordless authentication on your Modern Workplace?
One of the main Identity related topics during Microsoft Ignite March 2021 edition was passwordless. Microsoft announced at the event that passwordless authentication is now generally available, and Microsoft is now urging their customers to start their journey towards passwordless. As the name implies, going passwordless means that we will get rid of passwords for…
Enable external sender identification in Exchange Online
Microsoft has rolled out a new feature in Exchange Online called External Sender Identification. It allows for tags to be added to email messages coming from outside of your organization. So what will happen is that Outlook will display a new tag on emails called “External” in the message list. In some Outlook clients, the…