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Azure Storage support for Azure Active Directory based access control generally available
We are pleased to share the general availability of Azure Active Directory (AD) based access control for Azure Storage Blobs and Queues. Enterprises can now grant specific data access permissions to users and service identities from their Azure AD tenant using Azure’s Role-based access control (RBAC). Administrators can then track individual user and service access…
Why I love the Microsoft Authenticator App: because now it sends security notifications!
I cannot hide how I use and love the Microsoft Authenticator App. If you enable MFA logins for all your cloud services, it’s like magic: even without any internet connection, the app generates a code that you can use it as an additional factor of authentication. How it works now with these additional security notifications?…
Four major Azure AD Identity Protection enhancements are now in public preview
More and more enhancements related to Identity Protection have been announced today! So let’s see all of them: Improved user interface that now includes security insights, ability to filter and create reports New APIs that allow you to use all this monitored data to your own ticketing systems Improved risk assessment, so to be able…
#AzureAD new feature in preview: Roles and Administrators
One more cool feature in Azure Active Directory to make managing and controlling user assignments easier than ever in Azure AD. It provides you with a complete list and description of the built-in directory roles, in case you need to know all the details related to a specific role. It can also point you to…
Azure management groups now in general availability
I am very excited to announce today general availability of Azure management groups to all our customers. Management groups allow you to organize your subscriptions and apply governance controls, such as Azure Policy and Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC), to the management groups. All subscriptions within a management group automatically inherit the controls applied to the…
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#AzureAD Baseline Protection and Policy in Public Preview
It is crucial to protect your admin accounts, especially when we talk about Azure services. There is a new feature in Public Preview to implement it today, that will effectively protect your Azure AD privileged accounts. During the last year, identity attacks have increased by 300%. To protect your environment from the ever-increasing attacks, Azure…
#AzureAD Password Protection and Smart Lockout are now in Public Preview
One more cool feature related to Azure Active Directory, especially for those of you that care about security. Remember that the GDPR mandates for a strict security baseline, in order to protect personal data. So this new feature that was announced in Public Preview, forces or audits the passwords that the Azure AD users use;…