Page 185 of the DSE Cybersecurity knowledge center, with source-backed guidance and practical next steps.
Source-backed guidance for identity, vulnerability reduction, ransomware readiness, detection, response, and recovery.
Emergency access accounts provide a recovery path when normal administrators cannot sign in or activate a role. They must be independent, strongly protected, monitored, and tested without becoming everyday admin accounts.
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Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management can replace unnecessary standing access with eligible, time-bound, approved, and auditable role activation.
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A reliable passkey and passwordless rollout starts with user personas, device and application compatibility, recoverable registration, pilot waves, and measured enforcement.
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Microsoft Entra ID Protection can support automatic and manual risk remediation, but each action must follow investigation and preserve the distinction between password change, account recovery, and risk dismissal.
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Recurring Microsoft Entra access reviews can help owners recertify group, application, role, guest, and access-package assignments before stale access becomes permanent.
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Windows LAPS can rotate and escrow a unique local administrator password, but conflicting policies, the wrong backup directory, missing accounts, or excessive retrieval rights can leave the control ineffective.
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Intune can deploy standard or silent BitLocker encryption, but production readiness depends on supported hardware, usable recovery-key escrow, policy compatibility, and removal of conflicting encryption software.
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Attack surface reduction rules can block behaviors used by malware, but safe enforcement requires application inventory, representative champions, audit evidence, narrow exclusions, and ring-by-ring expansion.
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Built-in, Standard, and Strict preset security policies provide Microsoft-maintained email-protection settings. Correct licensing, precedence, targeting, quarantine support, and mail-flow testing still matter.
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Remote monitoring and access tools need explicit authorization, strong identity controls, restricted paths, independent logging, provider accountability, and tested containment.
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