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Security service edge (SSE) used to be something only large enterprises bought: a cloud proxy for web filtering, a zero trust replacement for VPN, and a lot of integration work. Global Secure Access is Microsoft's SSE, built

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"Everything is in the cloud, so Microsoft has a backup" is one of the most expensive assumptions a business can make. Microsoft keeps its service running and gives you recovery tools, but restoring your data to a

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Application allow-listing has a reputation problem. Everyone agrees that only letting approved software run is one of the strongest controls you can deploy, and almost everyone has a story about a project that blocked half the business

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"Can we just block every country except ours?" It is one of the most common requests I get, and it is a fair question. Conditional Access named locations make country blocking easy to set up, and it

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Windows Autopilot makes onboarding a new laptop feel effortless: unbox it, connect to Wi-Fi, sign in, and it builds itself. That convenience is exactly why Windows Autopilot security deserves attention. If the wrong device gets registered, or

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Credential theft is still the shortest path from one infected laptop to a full network compromise. An attacker who can read password hashes and Kerberos tickets from memory can reuse them on other machines. Credential Guard, managed

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Microsoft Entra ID Protection watches every sign-in and every account for signs of compromise, then hands that risk score to Conditional Access. Entra ID Protection risk policies are how you turn that score into action: an extra

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Teams has quietly become the second inbox. Clients, vendors and, increasingly, attackers use it to reach your staff. Yet in many tenants the Microsoft Teams security settings are exactly as they were on the day Teams was

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Intune security baselines are one of the fastest ways to harden Windows devices. With a few clicks you apply hundreds of settings that Microsoft's security teams recommend. That speed is also the danger: assign a baseline to

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Manually adding people to groups works until it doesn't. Someone forgets to add the new sales hire to the license group, or nobody removes the contractor from the finance share. Entra dynamic groups fix this by calculating