One of the first things a modern attacker does after landing on a device is try to switch off the antivirus. If they can disable real-time protection, add a broad exclusion or stop cloud lookups, everything that
Malicious inbox rules in Microsoft 365 are one of the quietest tools an attacker has. They need no malware, they survive a password reset, and the mailbox owner almost never notices them. A rule that moves every
Every tenant with Conditional Access needs a way back in when something goes wrong: a policy that blocks every admin, an MFA outage, a federation server that falls over. That way back is an emergency access account
Business email compromise in Microsoft 365 rarely looks like a dramatic hack. There is no ransom note and no locked screen. There is just a normal-looking email thread, a slightly changed bank account number, and a payment
If an attacker phishes the person who reads email, browses the web and runs your Microsoft 365 tenant all from one account, they get the whole tenant in one move. Following Microsoft 365 admin account best practices
Illustrative scenario: the organization below is a fictional composite. It reflects problems and fixes we commonly see in Microsoft 365, Intune, Purview and Azure environments. Names and figures are examples, not a specific client. This Windows Autopilot
If your Windows devices are already in Intune, the cleanest way to onboard Defender for Endpoint is from Intune itself. You connect the two services once, deploy an endpoint detection and response (EDR) policy, and every managed
Most businesses think offboarding means resetting a password and removing a license. That leaves the door open in half a dozen places: active sessions on phones, mail forwarding rules, app consents, personal devices still syncing files. This
Attack surface reduction rules are one of the most effective protections in Microsoft Defender, and one of the most often switched off after a bad first week. The rules block the behaviors attackers rely on, like Office
SPF, DKIM, and DMARC are the three DNS records that tell the rest of the internet which email really comes from your domain. Get them right and spoofed messages pretending to be you get rejected. Get the