Legacy authentication is the old way apps signed in: send a username and password with every request, no MFA, no device check. Microsoft has spent years switching it off in Exchange Online, so many owners assume the
Every month brings a new batch of vulnerabilities, and no IT team patches everything the day it lands. The real skill is deciding what to fix first. Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management helps by ranking weaknesses across your
Most small and mid-sized businesses give their help desk far more power than it needs. Someone needs to reset passwords, so they get User Administrator or Helpdesk Administrator across the whole tenant, which means they can also
Every lost laptop raises the same question: was the drive encrypted, and can you prove it? Deploying BitLocker with Intune answers both. Done properly, devices encrypt silently without the user clicking anything, the recovery key is stored
Cyber insurance renewals have turned into security audits. The questionnaire asks about MFA, endpoint detection, backups and admin accounts, and a wrong answer can mean a higher premium, an exclusion or a denied claim later. The good
If your users sign in to Microsoft 365 with accounts that come from on-premises Active Directory, your sign-ins depend on a sync server most people never look at. When it stops, nothing breaks immediately. Then a new
Shared mailboxes like info@, accounts@ and support@ handle some of the most sensitive mail a business receives: invoices, client enquiries, payment confirmations. They are also some of the least protected accounts in a typical tenant. Good shared
One compromised Intune admin account can wipe every laptop and phone in your business in a few clicks. Intune multi admin approval is Microsoft's answer: a second administrator has to approve high-impact changes, like a device wipe
Most Intune compliance policies check that a device is encrypted, patched and has a PIN. None of that tells you whether the device is compromised right now. Feeding Defender device risk into Intune compliance closes that gap.
Every Teams channel shared with a contractor, every SharePoint folder sent to an auditor, adds a guest account to your tenant. The project ends, but the guest account doesn't. Entra access reviews for guest users are the