👋 Hi, Merill here with this week’s round up of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
This week we look at, not one, but two 2️⃣ new conditional access features. New trust direction ↔️ options come to Entra Domain Services, an upcoming Apple Device auth webinar and more!
🎉 Congratulations to all the new and renewing MVPs, especially our friends who have been featured on Entra.News over the past year!
Enjoy!
⚡️ Microsoft
🏆 Generally Available
General Availability - Identity Protection and Risk Remediation on the Azure Mobile App • What's new in Microsoft Entra ID
New premium user risk detection, Suspicious API Traffic, is available in Identity Protection • What's new in Microsoft Entra ID
🔥 Public Preview
Prompt users for reauthentication on sensitive apps and high-risk actions with Conditional Access • Alex Weinert
Conditional Access: Device code flow and authentication flows • Microsoft Learn
Create a two-way forest trust in Microsoft Entra Domain Services with an on-premises domain • Microsoft Learn
📖 Read
Microsoft's Security Service Edge Solution - Deployment Guide for Microsoft Entra Internet Access - Proof of Concept • Microsoft Learn
Refreshed Identity and Access Management Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) documentation • Daniel Söderholm
Zero Trust: Rapid Offboarding with Intune and Microsoft Entra ID • Jason Cody
Migrating Identity and Access Management scenarios to Microsoft Entra from Microsoft Identity Manager • Microsoft Learn
microsoft/Security-101 - Cybersecurity for Beginners – a curriculum • Sarah Young
📆 Upcoming Events
Apple Device Auth | Goodbye KeyChain, Hello Secure Enclave - 6 March 2024, 9:00am PST • Register at aka.ms/AppleDeviceAuth/Register
From the community…
☀️ Learn
🚔 Permissions Management
🛍️ External ID - Customers
Authenticating with Entra External ID for Customers (CIAM) with the device code flow • Rory Braybrook
Where do I go from Identityserver4? • Rory Braybrook
⛑️ ID Protection
5 Practical Usages of PIM for Groups Explained • Shehan Perera
Microsoft Entra ID Protection • Flavio Meyer
👮♂️ ID Governance
6 Essential UAR Processes To Improve Cyber Compliance - CHARBEL NEMNOM - MV • Charbel Nemnom
Powershell Connector for EntraID • Suryendu Bhattacharyya
🌐 Global Secure Access (SSE)
📦 Apps
🔑 Authentication
Introduction to TAP • Nicklas Olsen
Secure your Microsoft 365 access with hardware tokens • Michele Blum
TAP & Autopilot: Make Deployment Easy! • Nicklas Olsen
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
Time Running Out for AzureAD and MSOL PowerShell Modules • Tony Redmond
Intune – Update your scripts to use a registered Entra ID application ID • Benoit Hamet
How to Clone Microsoft 365 Service Settings Using Microsoft365DSC • Admin Droid
Querying the Microsoft 365 Unified Audit Log datamart via the Graph API • Vasil Michev
The pitfalls of Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK • Flavio Meyer, Michele Blum
🚦 Conditional Access
Protect your users from Device Code Flow abuse • Fabian Bader
A new, must-have Conditional Access policy • Thijs Lecomte
Top things that you might not be doing (yet) in Entra Conditional Access • Guillaume Bossiroy
Require Sign-in Every time a user activates role membership in Entra ID • Suryendu Bhattacharyya
Require Re-authentication for Registering Security Info (Adding Authentication Method) in Entra ID • Suryendu Bhattacharyya
Conditional Access Now Supports Reauthentication on Sensitive Apps & High-Risk Actions • Office 365 Reports
🖥️ Devices
Secure your access to AVD with hardware tokens • Michele Blum
Citrix DaaS – Entra ID SSO with PRT and without FAS • Julian Jakob
Different Methods to Intune Windows Devices Enrollment • Benoit Lecours
🏙️ External ID - Guests & Multi-Tenant Organizations
How to Automate Guest Account UserType Updates in Microsoft Entra with PowerShell • Shaun H
External Sharing Domain Sync • Alexander Holmeset
📈 Reporting and Insights
Microsoft Releases Entra ID License Utilization Insights • Tony Redmond
Reporting Soft-Deleted Entra ID Objects • Tony Redmond
🥷 Security
Weaponization of Token Theft – A Red Team Perspective • Edwin David
Using WDAC to ingest missing MDE events and detect token stealing • Robbe Van den Daele
Entra ID monitoring - are you doing the basics? (Part 2) • Michael Duddington
Meet Silver SAML: Golden SAML in the Cloud • Tomer Nahum, Eric Woodruff
🎙️ Podcasts
Microsoft Graph scopes giving attackers high hopes - Cloudfirst Podcast • Marius Sandbu, Marius Solbakken Mellum
Seamless Traveller Experience - Verify This • Gillian Jones
📺 Watch
Think You Can “Trust” Microsoft Entra, Watch This First! (8 min) • Dean Cefola
Azure DevOps Workload Identity Federation with Azure Overview. NO MORE SECRETS! (22 min) • John Savill
Conditional Access: Authentication flows (Public Preview) (5 min) • Rio Hindle
Block Personal Computers with Conditional Access in Microsoft 365 (9 min) • Jonathan Edwards
Running processes in the cloud with CLI for Microsoft 365 • Albert-Jan Schot
AKS Workload Identity - Quick Tutorial (12 min) • Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
👨🏽💻 Merill’s corner
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