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Debbie Seres
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft 365 Security Product Marketing

Step 10. Detect and investigate security incidents: top 10 actions to secure your environment 

The “Top 10 actions to secure your environment” series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. In “Step 10. Detect and investigate security incidents,” you’ll learn how to set up Azure Advanced Threat Protection to uncover threats against your organization.

Step 7. Discover shadow IT and take control of your cloud apps: top 10 actions to secure your environment 

The “Top 10 actions to secure your environment” series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. In “Step 7. Discover shadow IT and take control of cloud apps,” you’ll learn how to set up Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) to identify, access, and manage the cloud applications used by your organization.

Step 5. Set up mobile device management: top 10 actions to secure your environment 

The “Top 10 actions to secure your environment” series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. In “Step 5. Set up mobile device management,” you’ll learn how to plan your Microsoft Intune deployment and set up Mobile Device Management (MDM) as part of your Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) strategy.

Step 4. Set conditional access policies: top 10 actions to secure your environment 

The “Top 10 actions to secure your environment” series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. In “Step 4. Set conditional access policies,” you’ll learn how to control access to your apps and corporate resources using conditional access policies, and how these policies can block legacy authentication methods and control access to SaaS apps.

Step 3. Protect your identities: top 10 actions to secure your environment 

The “Top 10 actions to secure your environment” series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. In today’s installment, “Step 3. Protect your identities,” you’ll learn how to define security policies to protect individual user identities against account compromise and protect your administrative accounts.

Step 2. Manage authentication and safeguard access: top 10 actions to secure your environment 

The “Top 10 actions to secure your environment” series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. We will provide advice on activities such as setting up identity management through active directory, malware protection, and more. In this post, we explain how to enable single sign-on (SSO) in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to manage authentication across devices, cloud apps, and on-premises apps, and then how to set up Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) to authenticate user sign-ins through a mobile app, phone call, or SMS.

Step 1. Identify users: top 10 actions to secure your environment 

The “Top 10 actions to secure your environment” series outlines fundamental steps you can take with your investment in Microsoft 365 security solutions. We’ll provide advice on activities such as setting up identity management through active directory, malware protection, and more. In this post, we explain how to create a single common identity across on-premises and cloud with hybrid authentication.