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Matthew Levy

Microsoft Security MVP | Principal Architect @NBConsult | Speaker | Blogger I am an Identity and Access Solutions Architect for NBConsult, a leading IT service provider in South Africa. I have 20+ years of experience in Microsoft enterprise technologies. I am passionate about Identity Governance and how it can help organizations achieve better security, compliance and productivity. I write blogs where I share my insights and tips on Application Governance.

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Microsoft Ignite 2022 – What’s New in Entra Identity

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Matthew Levy

Microsoft Ignite was held on October 12 to 14th 2022, and was a truly hybrid event, with in-person sessions held at the Seattle conference center as well as pre-recorded content and Teams live-event style sessions being streamed around the world. The big catch phrase of the conference this year was “Do more with less”. As organizations adapt to new challenges, they are looking to have more choice in the way they work and to get better results with less friction. The updates to products revealed at Microsoft Ignite were aimed at helping customers get the full value of Microsoft’s technologies.

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Azure Active Directory Monitoring: Domain Services

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Introduction to Identity

With organizations moving workloads to the cloud, they no longer have the traditional network security boundaries to manage access to applications and data. Therefore, identity is now the primary control plane in the cloud. This means that organizations control capabilities based on either the user identity or the device identity or a combination of both, using controls such as conditional access policies, compliance policies, self-service, single sign-on and automatic account provisioning and deprovisioning to cloud software as a services (SaaS).

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Microsoft 365 Security Assessment Part 1

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Matthew Levy

As a Microsoft 365 certified Security Administrator, and Microsoft certified Azure Security Engineer I have recently done a number of Microsoft 365 security assessments. Some of them have been post-breach assessments. A lot of companies had to enable remote workers in a hurry at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and as a result have realized security configuration and protection is more critical than ever.

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Active Directory Administration Cookbook, 2nd Edition

In this book, Microsoft MVP & Technical Editor of ENow's Azure & Active Directory Center, Sander Berkouwer will share the intricacies of managing Azure AD, Azure AD Connect as well as Active Directory for administration in the cloud and on Windows Server 2022.