There was a time when the corporate network represented a reasonably clear security boundary.
Employees worked inside an office.
Servers lived in company data centers.
Workstations joined corporate Active Directory.
Firewalls separated the internal network from the internet.
Cloud computing fundamentally changed that model. Continue reading
One of Microsoft’s most familiar cloud identity product names is changing.
Azure Active Directory is becoming Microsoft Entra ID.
For administrators, the immediate question is obvious:
What actually changes? Continue reading
As organizations move applications and data to the cloud, the traditional corporate network becomes less effective as the main security boundary.
Employees may sign in from the office, from home, from a mobile phone, or from a company laptop in another country. This makes identity one of the most important parts of modern IT security.
One technology administrators should understand is Conditional Access. Continue reading
One of the most common tickets an administrator receives is deceptively simple:
“I can’t log in.”
That statement doesn’t tell us very much.
An authentication problem could involve:
One of the confusing parts of Microsoft cloud administration for beginners is device identity.
You open a device and see terminology such as:
Microsoft Entra registered
Microsoft Entra joined
Microsoft Entra hybrid joined Continue reading