Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

What is Azure Active Directory B2C?

Azure Active Directory (AD) B2C is a customer identity access management (CIAM) solution capable of providing services that scales to hundreds of millions of customer identities and is highly available globally. It is intended to enhance a regular Azure Active Directory instance to enable external user registration through a local account (email) or by delegating to a variety of social accounts…
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Identity Protection & RiskMicrosoft Entra ID

Automate access decisions with risk-based contextual authentication

Fortifying Access Management while Working Remotely With more businesses opting for their workforce to work from home, there has been an exponential increase in remote user-focused cyberattacks. As IT teams scramble to deploy strict security measures like multi-factor authentication (MFA) to prevent any possible security event, the user experience of remote employees ends up taking a hit. A…
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Conditional AccessMicrosoft Entra ID

Microsoft announces Azure Best Practices and Launches Conditional Access Enhancements

Joy Chik, corporate vice president for Microsoft Identity, recently laid out a general overview of Azure AD security best practice. This announcement comes in the light of improvements that were recently announced to Azure Active Directory including conditional access policy management enhancements and synchronization service additions. Microsoft has suggested that companies using Azure AD…
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Identity Protection & RiskMicrosoft Entra ID

Microsoft releases Azure AD My Apps Collections and Risk Detections

Microsoft recently released a couple of new additional features to its Azure AD system. The new features, namely My Apps Collections and Risk Detections will let end users create their own set of apps in the Azure AD “My Apps” portal. The latter feature will help administrators spot sign-in anomalies. However, Microsoft also announced that some Azure AD features will also be discontinued. A…
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Conditional AccessMicrosoft Entra ID

Microsoft announced improvements in Azure Active Directory Conditional Access Policy and Sync

Microsoft has recently announced improvements to Azure Active Directory conditional access policy and sync services. The company also outlined security best practices for organizations across the world using on-premises Active Directory and Azure AD for identity and access management. Microsoft is advocating organizations to adopt zero trust for network traffic with Active Directory along with…
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Identity Protection & RiskMicrosoft Entra ID

California DMV customer data potentially at risk after ransomware attack on vendor

A ransomware attack on California DMV’s third party vendor, Automatic Funds Transfer Services Inc. In February may have potentially put millions of customer data at risk. Following the attack, the DMV said that it halted all data transfer operations to the Seattle-based company and immediately notified law enforcement officers including the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “AFTS does not…
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