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…
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…
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.
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Microsoft announced improvements in Azure Active Directory Conditional Access Policy and Sync
March 3, 2021
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…
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…
