Note Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) has been renamed to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (MDCA) at Ignite 2021. This post does not yet reflect that name change. Conditional Access is great. However, when it comes to managed devices it only allows to check for Hybrid Azure AD join and Intune compliance. With Microsoft Cloud…
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Conditional Access Authentication Context – Protect sensitive data
As part of Microsoft’s Zero Trust strategy, Conditional Access has been the central control mechanism in Azure AD to define which kind of access controls must be fulfilled to access cloud apps that are integrated with Azure AD. However, until now it was not possible to define more granular controls. With Conditional Access Authentication Context…
Microsoft Defender ATP – network control made easy
Controlling clients at the network level has been a use case for many companies for the last decades. In most cases, local network infrastructure like proxies or firewalls are used to control which resources can be accessed by a client. What if devices are on the road? In the cloud, this concept has been adapted…
Defending against obfuscated malicious content via e-mail
When it comes to cyber attacks, e-mails are still in most cases the initial point of compromise. Users are either lured to enter their credentials on a spoofed website or malware is attached in an obfuscated way. For example, by leveraging Office macros or making the user to “Enable content” which is disabled by default…
Microsoft Cloud App Security – 5 reasons to start using it
As a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB), Microsoft Cloud App Security – or MCAS as I will call it in this post – is a central cloud security tool that let’s you gain visibility and control over your cloud services. It also offers a variety of ways to analyse cloud usage and potential threats like…
Getting started with Microsoft Cloud App Security Conditional Access App Control
Microsoft Cloud App Security Conditional Access App Control – phew, what a name. A good reason to keep the technology behind it as simple as possible. So, what does it do? Basically, Microsoft Cloud … ok ok I’ll keep it a bit shorter, MCASCAAC is a reverse proxy architecture that allows you to actively control…