Tag: AzureAD

Hardening Azure AD in the Face of Emerging Threats

In September of 2021, Trimarc Founder & CTO Sean Metcalf presented at Quest’s The Experts Conference. “This presentation covers some attacks that involve Microsoft cloud on-prem components as well as those against the Microsoft cloud directly. After discussing attacks and specific defenses, I will wrap up with some key recommendations. Note: There will be some …

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From Azure AD to Active Directory (via Azure) – An Unanticipated Attack Path

For most of 2019, I was digging into Office 365 and Azure AD and looking at features as part of the development of the new Trimarc Microsoft Cloud Security Assessment which focuses on improving customer Microsoft Office 365 and Azure AD security posture. As I went through each of them, I found one that was …

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Azure & Active Directory

  Azure is big. It’s really big. Seriously, it’s hard to comprehend just how big it really is. (Apologies to Douglas Adams.) In July of last year, then-CEO Steve Ballmer stated that Azure data centers held “comfortably over a million physical servers.” Last year, Azure server purchases accounted for 17% of all server purchases worldwide. …

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Azure Active Directory Stats

  Over 2.9 Million Organizations are using Azure Active Directory More than 10 Billion Authentications per week Azure Active Directory is spread out across 14 data centers Contains more than 240 million user accounts Organizations using Azure Active Directory across 127 countries Supports over 1400 integrated third-party apps Azure AD Statistics