Entra 🆔 News #71 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Watch the BlueHat 🧢 Entra recordings, learn about Entra sessions at Ignite this week ✨, mandatory MFA for the Microsoft 365 admin center 🔐, protecting AI with conditional access 🤖, and more! 🚀
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
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🔆 Entra sessions @ Ignite
Don’t miss out on these sessions from the Microsoft Entra product group at Ignite this week. Register and watch live or watch the recordings after the event.
Secure access for any identity to any resource with Microsoft Entra
Secure access for your workforce with the new Microsoft Entra Suite
Accelerate your Zero Trust journey: Unify Identity and Network Access
📖 Read
Announcing mandatory multi factor authentication for the Microsoft 365 admin center • Samer Baroudi
Built-in security controls for external-facing apps • Ankur Patel
Protect AI with Conditional Access policy • Microsoft Learn
Creating an Azure OpenAI app with Python using External ID authentication • Arbaaz Abdulwahid
📺 Watch
425 Show | The Importance of Enabling Risk Based Conditional Access (42 min) • Rashi Kukke, Megan Walsh
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
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Microsoft Entra ID: Revoke user access in an emergency • Oliver Müller
Security made easy! Pre-provision FIDO2 keys for your users with PowerShell! • Per-Torben Sørensen
The Final Countdown: Wrapping Up Conditional Access with Application Specific protection • Sebastian Flæng Markdanner
☀️ Learn
👮♂️ ID Governance
Let’s improve onboarding for Windows 365! • Ola Ström
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Quick Look at Entra ID Global Secure Access – Internet Access • Mohammed Sajid
🔑 Authentication
Phishing Resistant Authentication • John Savill
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Manage PIM Role Assignments with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK • Tony Redmond
Graph permission scopes and delegate access in Microsoft Entra • Daniel Bradley
Microsoft Recommends the UnifiedRoleDefinition Graph API for Role Assignment Automation • Tony Redmond
🚦 Conditional Access
Protect your Tokens with Intune & Conditional Access • Arno van Dijk
Configuring Mozilla Firefox for usage with device-based Conditional Access • Peter van der Woude
The 3 Stages of CA Policy Maturity – Lessons from the Field • Shehan Perera
What If Tool in Entra ID Conditional Access • Mezba Uddin
Practical Protection: Leveling up Conditional Access Policy Management • Paul Robichaux
🔐 Credential Management
Deploying On-premises Microsoft Entra Password Protection for Enhanced Security • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
🖥️ Devices
Mastering Device Compliance: The Game-Changing Tpm-PreAttestationHealthCheck in Windows 24H2 • Rudy Ooms
🥷 Security
Protect against token theft in Microsoft Entra ID • Layth Chebbi
Entra Sign-In logs hidden gems • Sapir Federovsky
Enhancing Resource Access Security with Continuous Access Evaluation • John Savill
Revoke user access in case of an emergency with a single click • Peter Klapwijk
Microsoft Entra ID Continuous access evaluation and how it works! • Tom Wechsler
♻️ Sync
How to Soft Match On-Premises users with Microsoft Entra ID users • Ali Tajran
How to Resolve Common Microsoft Entra Connect Errors: A Tale of TLS and Tiny Disks • Marilee Turscak
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Clearing a claim from the claims bag in Azure AD B2C • Rory Braybrook
🎙️ Podcasts
PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, and MVP Wisdom with Christian Ritter; The PowerShell Podcast E144 (37 min) • Andrew Pla, Christian Ritter
Podcast S01E06 - Setup MAM for Windows In Intun: CloudFox (29 min) • Shady Khorshed, Joery Van den Bosch
📺 Watch
BlueHat 2024: S06: Deprecating Azure AD Graph API is Easy and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves - MSRC (19 min) • Dr. Nestori Syynimma
BlueHat 2024: S01: The two sides of UnOAuthorized - MSRC • Eric Woodruff, Cameron Vincent
BlueHat 2024: Session 05: Echoes of Intrusion: Demystifying MS Graph API Attacks • Miriam Wiesner
Continuous Access Evaluation Deep Dive - Securing Your Tokens! (28 min) • John Savill
Why Privileged Identity Management Falls Short [5 Key PIM Mistakes] (14 min) • Threatscape
Introducing BitLocker; Your Defence Against Stolen Devices (15 min) • Jonathan Edwards
Organizational messages (Public Preview - M365 Admin Centre) (11 min) • Rio Hindle
🔥 Maester
Deploy Maester with Terraform: A Simple Guide • Håvard Løkensgard
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