A successful Zero Trust strategy requires seamless and flexible access to applications, systems, and data while maintaining security for both users and the resources they need to do their jobs. It requires being cloud-ready, starting with identity, and then taking steps that will help secure all areas of your environment. Here's what you need to implement for Azure AD Identity Protection:

With 81 percent of data breaches being due to weak, reused, or stolen passwords, turning on Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all of your apps is necessary. In this article, we'll show you how to setup MFA for your Office 365 account paired with the Microsoft Authenticator smartphone app.

While setting up MFA is an essential step, it is only one portion of a five step comprehensive email security strategy. This blog is the 5th post of a 5 post series titled Email Security: The Complete Guide. The 5 steps to email security are:

1. Configure DKIM, DMARC, SPF
2. Deploy EOP (Exchange Online Protection)
3. Set up Office Message Encryption
4. Enable Office 365 ATP (Advanced Threat Protection)
5. Enable Office 365 MFA with Authenticator App (this post)

For the last six months at BEMO we have been migrating a lot of Domain Controllers to Azure. During our discovery calls with the customers, it's obvious there's a lot of confusion about all the different options around Active Directory (AD), Azure Active Directory (AAD), Hybrid Azure Active Directory (Hybrid AAD), and Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AADDS). Below we'll explain their differences in order to help you decide what you need.

In this blog post, we're going to walk you through configuring SPF, DMARC, and DKIM. While this is an essential step, it is only one portion of a comprehensive email security strategy. This blog is the 1st post of a 5 post series titled Email Security: The Complete Guide. The 5 steps to email security are:

1. Configure DKIM, DMARC, SPF (this post)
2. Deploy EOP (Exchange Online Protection)
3. Set up Office Message Encryption
4. Enable Office 365 ATP (Advanced Threat Protection)
5. Enable Office 365 MFA with Authenticator App

MxToolbox is an indispensable (free!) tool every IT and security team. We use it as part of our arsenal of tools for protecting our clients’ emails, ensuring we have enabled Sender Policy Framework (SPF), DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), and Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance (DMARC). Don’t know what this gibberish means? No worries, we’ll explain what they mean, why they’re important, and how to enable them. Let’s get started!