Microsoft’s licensing can be a little confusing when it comes to figuring out exactly how many E5/E3 licenses you will need to actually leverage the security features associated with a given license. This blog is written with the assumption that you know what features you are interested in buying and/or at have a basic understanding […]

Do you know what happens when you share a file via a Microsoft Team’s – Team Chat? That file is not just saved in the Teams chat but is also uploaded to either SharePoint or OneDrive depending if the chat was directly with another person or with a Team. In this blog, we will cover […]

This is what it looks like to create an access link, in this blog I will explain which settings affect what options are available on these link creation pages. SharePoint is all about collaboration and sharing, and in the SharePoint Online cloud, giving access to resources is a bit different than the traditional method of giving a user or group access to something. In […]

If you are a security analyst, engineer, admin, or otherwise responsible for protecting the personal and private data of employees and customers – the following 3 statistics should frighten you.  The frequency of insider threats incidents has increased by 47% in the past two years – the Ponemon Institute   Disgruntled employees rank in the top 5 contributors for insider data breaches […]

Allowing legacy authentication to your SharePoint online tenant unnecessarily exposes it to a number of attacks and exploits that you can easily avoid by simply disabling legacy authentication to your tenant. Microsoft has made it clear that all roads lead to the cloud, and with that Azure Active Directory has become an even more critical […]

Phishing scams are a very common technique used by identity thieves to trick you into giving them your sensitive personal or financial information. Thieves will often impersonate actual companies like credit card companies, banks or online resources such as PayPal or Dropbox. It is a challenge to recognize what is real and what isn’t but […]

As more and more attacks are occurring each year with a record 4.1 billion records breached in just the first half of 2019, according to Forbes– data security regulation is becoming more of a priority. Just as we suspected with the signing of the GDPR regulation in the EU, similar regulation has sprung up in […]

According to a study conducted by Mio, 91% of businesses use at least two messaging apps, of which slack and Microsoft Teams are present in 66% of the organizations surveyed. Teams adoption has been growing quickly due to its interoperability with the rest of the Office 365 suite which makes collaborating easier than ever. While […]

Azure Information Protection labels or AIP labels can be created and applied to documents and emails. These labels can be used to classify content based on what the data is and how sensitive it is. This approach is extremely powerful when properly implemented as it provides security on your data even after it leaves your […]

SharePoint offers options for collecting activity which may prove useful for many different reasons. Whether that reason is for security auditing or fulfilling other compliance requirements, in order to make use of it – it must be turned on and you need to know what you are looking for. The purpose of this blog is […]