Legacy Authentication Archives - Practical 365

Protecting AD against compromise, New Teams Features and Microsoft’s Greg Taylor joins us to talk TEC: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E1

Steve Goodman — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 20:29:27 +0000

In our first show in season four, new co-host Rich Dean joins Steve and Paul to discuss preparing your Active Directory against compromises, new Microsoft Teams features, and Greg Taylor joins to talk about his upcoming session at TEC.

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Why Separate Microsoft 365 Administrator Accounts are Critical to Security Posture

Thijs Lecomte — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 07:58:00 +0000

There’s a lot of debate around the need to separate Microsoft 365 administrator accounts, especially when controls such as Privileged Identity Management exist within an organization. However, even with PIM there are remaining security concerns which necessitate the operation of separate accounts. This article explains the importance of using separate accounts; details how to target different Conditional Access policies for admin and user accounts and highlights how this approach increases your security posture and limits potential attack vectors against administrator accounts.

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The Most Important Steps an Administrator Can Take to Make Exchange Online Secure by Default

Sean McAvinue — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 14:08:22 +0000

There are many ways in which you can improve the security of your Exchange Online environment. In this article, Sean McAvinue details the most important steps that admins can immediately implement to align Exchange Online tenants with a good security baseline and posture.

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