Security related items and thoughts
Controlling connections to Azure VMs using the just in time (JIT) policy of Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) certainly improves the overall security… Read the rest “Quick Tip – Easily Allow JIT to Azure VMs In A Resource Group”
Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) uses endpoints to provide access to features. There are a series of different endpoints which each serve… Read the rest “Check If AD FS WSTrust Endpoint Enabled”
There are a multitude of online tools that help diagnose issues with various mail services, but understanding what these tools actually check is valua… Read the rest “How to Use NsLookup To Check DKIM Record”
Note that there have been changes to Safe Links policy for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO).
Previously you could add URLs to the Safe Links pol… Read the rest “Migrate Safe Links Block Settings to TABL”
When delivering Office 365 Security Optimisation Assessments (SOA) to customers, one of the control items is the version of Azure AD Connect deployed a… Read the rest “Upgrade to Azure AD Connect 2.0”
Admins have become very aware of the need to adjust the Schannel protocol settings for TLS to enable TLS 1.2 and to disable older versions. However, … Read the rest “Remediate SWEET32 — Disable TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA For Windows Server 2012 R2”
This is a snapshot of portal.azure.com using SSLLabs.com to scan the TLS configuration. The image below is a point in time snapshot of the configurat… Read the rest “SSL Labs Scan Portal.Azure.com–June 2022”
This post is a scan of Outlook.office365.com taken with the SSLLabs.com scan tool which analyses the TLS configuration of the server.
This was a question from a recent customer engagement: Why is the Microsoft Defender portal asking me to turn on the Unified Audit Log when I already… Read the rest “Defender Portal Enable Audit – Is That The Unified Audit Log?”
One of my customers wanted to verify their Domain Based Message Reporting Conformance (DMARC) record, and followed the post How To Use Nslookup To Che… Read the rest “How To Use Nslookup To Check DMARC Record”