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…
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…
During my trainings, you’ll often hear me saying that it doesn’t make sense anymore to join your company’s portable devices in your on-premises Active Directory. In fact, these devices are usually used outside of the company’s environment, so they never or rarely contact your Domain Controllers. A common good practice is to join them to…
Azure AD Identity Protection and Privileged Identity Management take secure identity and access management to the next level. These new Azure AD features puts the power of conditional access and advanced risk analytics, just-in-time administration and security reviews in your hand to stop cyber criminals from gaining entry to your systems by compromising identities. Azure…
With the latest SQL server tools release we extended the Azure AD authentication support for SQL DB and DW tools for token-based authentication (Universal authentication) with MFA support. The following SQL Server tools have been extended adding new functionality: SSMS 17.2 supports the following functionalities: Multiple-user Azure AD authentication for Universal authentication with multi-factor support…
It seems that the #AzureAD team never goes on vacation! This is the only way to explain all these new features the we get, even in summer. So we have two new updates: support for “users at risk” for the customers that use federation for user authentication and the availability of Azure AD Identity protection…