Understanding Standard and Strict Preset policies in Defender for Office
Defender for Office has a new way of making it easy for you to deploy policies. Instead of […]
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Receive an alert when a message is released from quarantine
Even though quarantine management has been assigned outside of IT you should still monitor when an email has been released from quarantine because phishing is the #1 method that criminals use to gain a foothold in your network.
Assign email quarantine management responsibility
It is determined that a user outside of normal IT operations should be given the ability to manage the email quarantine for the company.
Blocking and monitoring generative AI in your network
Oh, my AI, what can be done? There’s lot of FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) being spewed from […]
Where do you reset MFA for a user?
This is as much for me as it is for you, because I’m constantly forgetting where this is […]
Announcing our Microsoft 365 Newsletter
This newsletter is a curated blog roll of the 8 most important topics published by Microsoft in the previous week.
The invasive Otter
In today's meeting, a person I met with was sent a meeting recap from "me". Otter had joined a meeting that I was invited to and then emailed them that person a recap of our meeting. I was very disturbed by this event
How to secure your network from OAuth permissions
You will have now prevented misleadingly named apps, potentially malicious apps, apps with misleading publisher names, apps performing unusual amounts of file downloads, the addition of credentials to OAuth, and apps with a strange ISP for an OAuth.
Microsoft 365: Copilot vs Copilot for Microsoft 365 – Excel
This has led me to develop very minimal skills when it comes to making a fancy pretty Excel sheet that I wouldn't be embarrassed to show to others. So, my goal is going to be to make my Excel sheet more functional and more pretty.
Microsoft Copilot – Outlook vs Bing Enterprise Chat
For this comparison I'm going to ask each to improve an email I wrote with my own brain.
Setting up Defender for Business XDR in 45 minutes or …
In this session, I reviewed the very most important parts to start with when setting up your XDR. That doesn't mean, skip the rest. It means start here and then go back through and configure everything.
Peer groups and learning groups for 2024
It was my pleasure to introduce peer groups to Third Tier. In 2024, we're introducing focused learning groups for Defender, Intune, Public speaking and more