All news with #conditional access tag

🔒 This article examines prevalent methods attackers use to bypass multifactor authentication (MFA), from MFA fatigue and social engineering to cookie theft and targeting weak or non‑MFA accounts. It summarizes survey findings on uneven MFA adoption, highlights real-world incidents (Okta, Uber), and notes industry guidance favoring phishing‑resistant and passwordless approaches. The piece concludes with concrete defensive steps such as adaptive authentication, tightening access rights, and reviewing password reset workflows.

🔐 Microsoft argues that identity is the primary pressure point for modern cyberattacks as organizations manage proliferating human, non-human, and agentic identities across disparate systems. The post highlights that fragmentation—duplicative solutions and too many vendors—creates visibility gaps that enable lateral movement. It outlines a unified model built on Microsoft Entra, a real-time identity control plane including Conditional Access, and integrated threat protection, and describes AI-driven triage with Security Copilot to accelerate response and reduce analyst fatigue.

🛡️ AI-enabled cyber attacks increasingly mimic legitimate users, rendering signature- and rule-based defenses insufficient. Modern identity security must adopt continuous, context-aware risk modeling that evaluates identity, device and session context in real time to detect subtle deviations. Organizations should extend monitoring across cloud, endpoints and privileged accounts, enforce Just-in-Time (JIT) access and consolidate behavioral analytics with session monitoring and granular controls to limit credential abuse and insider misuse.