Microsoft 365 Defender: Safe Links and Safe Attachments
Safe Links, Safe Attachments? Why do we need this?We work more and more with Email, Teams, OneDrive, Sharepoint share files with external people. We chat, we want to work from anywhere and we want to do this with all possible systems (Modern Workplace). A simple virus and spam protection, which is running by Exchange Online Protection (EOP) on every Exchange Online, is often no longer sufficient.Microsoft 365 Defender show two additional features: Safe Links and Safe Attachments. Both are easy to configure and extend the security enormously.
User guide: Enabling multi-factor authentication
Enabling Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) significantly increases the security of user accounts when accessing Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 online services. The following user guide will help to set up one of the following authentication methods. Three options are available to authenticate with the second factor:
Enforce Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) provides a high level of protection for identities in the cloud. The user must identify himself with a second factor in addition to the password. Without this second factor, access to cloud apps are prevented. The feature “Azure AD Conditional Access” can be used to enforce multi-factor authentication. At least two of the following authentication methods then become mandatory:
Azure AD Connect: Synchronize Directory Extensions
A local Active Directory can have directory extensions. For example, when installing Microsoft Exchange 15 extension attributes are created in Active Directory. Die Werte dieser Verzeichniserweiterungen werden nicht mit Azure AD Connect synchronisiert. Wenn diese Werte in Azure AD benötigt werden, muss Azure AD Connect so konfiguriert werden, dass dies geschieht.
Azure AD Connect: High Availability with Staging Mode
The ability to run an Azure AD Connect installation in staging mode, prepared identically by importing the active configuration, allows a High Availability solution to be created for Azure AD synchronization with minimal effort. In case of a disaster recovery of the Azure AD Connect service, only the staging mode on the prepared server can be deactivated due to the high availability. The synchronization from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory continues to work seamlessly.