Remote work is continuing to penetrate the fabric of the regular workflow ever more. Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is a Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) that functions as a gatekeeper between your users and cloud resources they have access to. Among others, it allows to tap into Shador IT and app use to prevent malicious behavior.
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Security is at the forefront of IT infrastructure now, perhaps, even more so than performance. Azure AD provides identities to various applications and can be used to manage authentication. Of course, multi-factor authentication is the standard now. However, passwordless options are available as well, with another set of steps.
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Managing user access to resources during their working lifecycle can be quite a hassle. Luckily, with Access Package, you handle the onboarding, cross-boarding, or offboarding of a user with ease. Just create a self-service catalog of resources to which a user can request access themselves, — all that’s left for you is approval.
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Windows 365 is Microsoft’s recent twist on virtual desktop infrastructure. Microsoft also calls it “your PC in the cloud.” Initially, Windows 365 wasn’t able to work with only Azure Active Directory (AD), requiring Hybrid AD Join. Now, this has been simplified, so you can easily connect your Windows 365 “PCs in the cloud” to “Azure AD only” in just a few steps.
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Previously, we discussed how to backup Microsoft 365 using Druva, a backup software as a service from Dell that leverages Amazon cloud. While Druva proves a bit fussy in terms of configuration and backup, it is rather simple when it comes to data restore, regardless of whether it’s OneDrive, Teams, Sharepoint, or whatever you want to restore.
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Dell Druva is among the newer players when it comes to data management as a service. Essentially, Dell Druva is a backup SaaS for other SaaS, such as Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and Amazon Web Services. Apart from a great GUI and useful features, what’s great is that Druva stores data in AWS, not in Azure.
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Rubrik Polaris is a SaaS platform that centralizes backup management of cloud environments such as Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, or GCP. You’ve already seen how to backup M356 with Rubrik Polaris. Now it’s time to find out how you restore it.
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Rubrik Polaris is a centralized Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) backup management platform for On-Premises Rubrik Backup Appliances. It allows you to manage the appliances and backup/restore data to and from a compatible public cloud. Its main advantage, however, is that Polaris manages all backups the same, whether it’s a VM, a database, a mailbox, or a SharePoint site.
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Microsoft released Azure Sentinel Solutions for public review in May 2021. The feature is a gallery that’s part of Azure Marketplace, where users can publish packages to easily integrate a product from Azure Sentinel itself. Administrators can just select a solution from the gallery, click on create, follow the wizard, and integrate the new solution, which already contains data connectors, workbooks, queries, and analytics rules templates.
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Previously, we talked about the new release of Windows 365 and how to deploy it by default. Today, we’re sharing how you can get creative. You can create your own custom Windows 365 deployments by utilizing Azure VM generation 1 and generation 2 images. It might sound daunting, but we’ve broken everything down for you.
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