In Episode 154, Ben and Scott sit down at Microsoft Ignite with Ramiro Calderon, Principal Program Manager - Azure Active Directory, and Stefan van der Wiele, Senior Program Manager - Azure Active Directory, to talk about Azure Active Directory and how as the core of authentication for Office 365, Azure, and Microsoft you can configure your tenancies in a secure and usable way.

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Show Notes

* What’s new in Azure Active Directory at Microsoft Ignite 2019

* SECI10 Identity and access management best practices from around the world

* Enable Multi-Factor Authentication for your organization

* What are security defaults?

* What is Conditional Access report-only mode?

* Announcing the public preview of Azure AD support for FIDO2-based passwordless sign-in

* Passwordless authentication options

* Enable passwordless sign-in with the Microsoft Authenticator app (preview)

* New NIST Guidelines Acknowledge We’re Only Human

* Microsoft account security info & verification codes

* What is Azure Active Directory Identity Protection?

* Azure Active Directory smart lockout

* What is Azure AD Privileged Identity Management?