Emergencies happen every day. Most of the time, they happen to someone else. Until the day they happen to you - then what? We all know things can go wrong, but most organizations do not spend much time thinking about what happens when they lose access to their own environment. That is understandable right up until the moment a misconfiguration, outage or any other emergency turns it from a theoretical problem into a very real one. That is why emergency access matters. In this

With identities and access strengthened in part 2 , it’s time to turn our focus to real-world data protection with Authentication Contexts. One of the more underused capabilities of Authentication Contexts is their power to secure data across the environment, whether through direct enforcement using Sensitivity Labels or by protecting user sessions via Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. In this post, we’ll explore exactly that: how to secure organizational data using Authent

In Part 02 , we explored authentication , the process of verifying user identities—ensuring users are who they claim to be. Today we’ll build on that by diving into authorization—the process of determining what authenticated users are allowed. While authentication is a foundational element of any organization’s identity and access management strategy, secure identity verification alone isn’t sufficient. Authorization completes the picture by assigning the correct permissions