05 May 2026 · 3 min
Cyber Essentials Plus Readiness Guide
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IT security notes for UK Microsoft 365 teams
Practical field notes on Cyber Essentials Plus readiness, Entra ID, Intune, Defender, and Microsoft 365 control cleanup.
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05 May 2026 · 3 min
Intune and Defender Endpoint Control
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05 May 2026 · 3 min
Microsoft 365 Security Backlog 2026
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05 May 2026 · 3 min
Microsoft 365 Security Cleanup Guide
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04 May 2026 · 3 min
Cyber Essentials Plus Endpoint Samples
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30 Apr 2026 · 3 min
Cyber Breaches Survey Lessons for M365
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27 Apr 2026 · 3 min
Cyber Essentials Patch Evidence
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23 Apr 2026 · 3 min
Cyber Essentials MFA Cloud Auto-Fail
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20 Apr 2026 · 3 min
Cyber Essentials v3.3: Cloud Services Scope for Microsoft 365 Teams
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16 Apr 2026 · 3 min
Endpoint DLP Only Works When the Endpoint Is Actually Managed
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13 Apr 2026 · 3 min
Purview DSPM for Copilot AI
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09 Apr 2026 · 3 min
Intune Policy Conflict Map: Baselines, Settings Catalog and Endpoint Security
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06 Apr 2026 · 3 min
Intune Mobile Passkeys and Credential Provider: Small Change, Useful Control
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02 Apr 2026 · 3 min
Microsoft-Managed Conditional Access Policies: Useful, but Still Needs Ownership
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30 Mar 2026 · 3 min
Container Labels for Teams, Sites and Groups: Control the Place, Not Just the File
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26 Mar 2026 · 3 min
Sensitivity Labels in SharePoint and OneDrive: A Practical Start
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23 Mar 2026 · 3 min
DLP for Copilot and Third-Party AI
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19 Mar 2026 · 3 min
Password Spray Controls for Microsoft 365
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16 Mar 2026 · 4 min
Passkeys in Entra ID: Practical Rollout for Microsoft 365 Admins
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12 Mar 2026 · 3 min
Audit Logs and Evidence: What to Capture Before Assessment Week
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09 Mar 2026 · 3 min
OAuth App Consent Audit: The Microsoft 365 Backdoor People Miss
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05 Mar 2026 · 4 min
Defender Office 365 Operations
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02 Mar 2026 · 3 min
Microsoft 365 Incident Response Plan
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26 Feb 2026 · 3 min
Guest Access Reviews in Teams
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23 Feb 2026 · 3 min
Break-Glass Accounts in Microsoft 365
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19 Feb 2026 · 4 min
Mail Forwarding and Inbox Rules: The Microsoft 365 Audit Nobody Should Skip
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16 Feb 2026 · 3 min
Windows 10 After End of Support: Microsoft 365 and Cyber Essentials Risk
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12 Feb 2026 · 3 min
Device Compliance and Conditional Access
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09 Feb 2026 · 3 min
AVD Least Privilege with Intune EPM
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05 Feb 2026 · 3 min
Endpoint Privilege Management
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02 Feb 2026 · 4 min
Intune Baseline Conflict Fixes
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29 Jan 2026 · 4 min
Microsoft Secure Score Backlog
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26 Jan 2026 · 4 min
SharePoint External Sharing Cleanup
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22 Jan 2026 · 5 min
Phishing Still Pays: A Microsoft 365 Action Plan for UK SMEs
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19 Jan 2026 · 5 min
Defender Office 365 Baseline
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15 Jan 2026 · 4 min
MFA in Microsoft 365: Security Defaults, Conditional Access or Per-User MFA?
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12 Jan 2026 · 3 min
Global Admin Cleanup in Microsoft 365
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08 Jan 2026 · 4 min
Conditional Access Enforcement Rollout
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05 Jan 2026 · 3 min
Microsoft 365 Security Review for UK SMEs: The First 10 Checks
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