On Day 5 of Cybersecurity awareness month, learn to conceal your organization by blocking user consent to suspicious applications. Stay tuned for more blogs in Office 365 Cybersecurity blog series. Have you ever heard about the illicit grant consent attack in Microsoft 365? It’s a consent phishing attack where a malicious attacker creates an Azure-registered application asking for…
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Break Glass Account in Microsoft 365 for Emergency Access!
On Day 4 of Cybersecurity awareness month, learn to conceal your organization from cyber threats today. Stay tuned for more blogs in the Cybersecurity blog series. A sudden hindrance during work affects our productivity! Think of a past incident caused by the MFA outage that caused Microsoft 365 users to face logging-in issues. Admins were most affected…
Ban Custom Passwords in Office 365 to Prevent Users from using Guessable Passwords
On Day 3 of Cybersecurity awareness month, learn to protect your organization from password spray attacks today. Stay tuned for more blogs in the Office 365 Cybersecurity blog series Microsoft reported that they see 12 million username/password pair attacks every day. The number is alarming, isn’t it? Even though multi-factor authentication is available, only 26.64% of Microsoft…
Block Email Auto-Forwarding to External Domain
On Day 2 of Cybersecurity awareness month, learn to conceal your organization from cyber threats today. Stay tuned for more blogs in the Cybersecurity blog series. In today’s world, emails are subjected to a lot of threats as they are the powerhouse of business information. Outlook’s email forwarding feature is useful but at the same time, it…
Restrict User Access to Azure AD to Prevent Data Exposure
On Day 1 of Cybersecurity awareness month, learn to conceal your organization from cyber threats today. Stay tuned for upcoming blogs in the Cybersecurity blog series In this digital era, everything gets digitized and widely used by everyone. Likewise, tricky hackers are evolving more, and their techniques get multiplied periodically. Although Microsoft comes up with…
Essential Microsoft 365 Security Checklist to Stay Safe in This Cybersecurity Awareness Month
It’s the season! Did I say about the fall? Or did I say about the Halloween season? Nah, it’s time for Cybersecurity Awareness Month! As work becomes increasingly digital, so are cyber-attacks. Researchers estimate that social engineering and phishing attacks account for 75% of cyber-security threats. Moreover, we’ve noticed a crucial vulnerability called the MFA fatigue attack ruining MFA…
A Detailed Guide to Manage Storage Quota in SharePoint Online
When you check your site collection limit, it will be shown as 25600 GB (25 TB) by default. But are you aware that 25 TB is not your actual storage quota in SharePoint Online? The fact is that Microsoft provides only 1 TB of default storage, and the rest depends upon various factors in the…
Is Office 365 Report Reader Role Efficient for Accessing Reports?
Office 365 offers multiple ways to lighten the burden of single-handed admins, such as supporting the idea of delegating email & calendar permissions and granting administrative roles to various Office 365 services. However, managing Office 365 reports remains challenging due to its sheer size! But you can reduce the workload by delegating the reports…
How to Deal with Exchange Online Basic Authentication Deprecation?
Over the past few years, Microsoft has warned admins about the basic authentication deprecation in Exchange Online. Since it is one of the oldest authentication methods, it comes with numerous security flaws. Hackers will easily attack accounts that use basic auth as it requires only a username and a password to log in. Therefore, Microsoft brought…
How to Safeguard From MFA Push Notification Method Security Flaws?
Statistics say that around 613 million passwords have been breached in the last few years. Definitely, that’s an alarming count, isn’t it? 🫤 Therefore, Microsoft announced that multi-factor authentication can prevent 90% of password attacks from happening in the organization. Besides, adding MFA to an organization’s security framework enhances corporate security and significantly reduces risks. Thus,…