Cyber Security
The Biggest Mindset Shift You Can Make To Improve Security
My name is Jason Rutherford, and I'm the Managing Partner of Model Technology Solutions. The last two years have shifted the landscape of Endpoint Security. Gone are the days when caring about cybersecurity was relegated to a small group of techies behind the scenes at the largest companies. COVID 19 [...]
Transparent and Secure | Operationalizing/Efficient Endpoint Security (Level 5)
This post is part of a multi-part series defining maturity model levels for endpoint devices. Today we will be covering Endpoint Security Level 5. In this post you'll read about: What is Unified Endpoint Management (UEM)? Our proprietary maturity model, its phases and categories. An overview of security level [...]
Investigating Entity Profiles With Microsoft Defender for Identity
This post is a short overview of how you can use Microsoft Defender for Identity to investigate high-alert users in your environment. If your active directory is a little bit spread out, using Microsoft Defender for Identity will allow you to track user access to files and folders. Defender [...]
Microsoft Ignite 2021 | Key Updates for Endpoint Management and Security
Microsoft Ignite 2021 Microsoft held their annual Ignite conference at the beginning of November, announcing a slew of new features, functionality, and technology coming to the Microsoft 365 ecosystem. These changes run the gamut from new user collaboration capabilities through new security services and everything in between. In this [...]
In Capable Hands: Managed/Capable Endpoint Security Maturity (Level 4)
Hello, and welcome to Model Technology Solutions' approach to Unified Endpoint Management. Today we are talking about Security Level 4 of our maturity model. If you've missed the introductory video or any other video in this series, you can find them linked from our webpage at model-technology.com/uemmaturity. The topics [...]
Simulating an Attack and Reviewing Remediation Steps with Microsoft Defender for O365
These days there's many paths that outside attackers can attempt to break into your environment. But by far one of the most-effective methods is by simulating trusted entities, such as a credentials harvest attack. According to Uniken, credential harvesting is: ...the use of MITM attacks, DNS poisoning, phishing, and other [...]
Limiting Your Attack Surface with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Every day security vulnerabilities in apps create risk for potentially exploitable paths that a malicious actor might attempt to use in order to compromise a device in your infrastructure. To prevent this, you can use Microsoft Defender to apply policies and profiles that secure specific portions of the endpoints, [...]
Protecting Your Organization from Shadow IT | Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
In this post, we're going to talk about how to protect your organization from unsanctioned applications using policies with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. You'll read a high-level overview of Microsoft's CASB solution, Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, and specifically how you can leverage it to mitigate your company's [...]
How To Securely Expose Internal Applications to the Outside World
Hey everyone, Jason Rutherford here with Model Technology Solutions. Today we're going to talk about how to configure an external app proxy. Using application proxy from Azure enables you to expose an internal web application to the external world. Here are some additional use cases for application proxy in [...]
Dynamic Data Access | Security Through Session-Level Controls
Hi everyone. Welcome. My name is Jason Rutherford and I'm the Managing Partner for Model Technology Solutions. Today I'm going to show you Microsoft's cloud access security broker (CASB) implements Dynamic Access Control and a specific use case scenario that we ran across recently. How Microsoft's CASB Implements Dynamic [...]
