Entra External ID Preso

I was invited to present on my previous blog post at the WATSSA technology in education conference in Perth

June 12, 2025 · 1 min · 125 words · Chris Beattie

Conditional Access for Education

Through implementing these policies, educational institutions can significantly enhance their security posture, protecting sensitive data and resources while maintaining usability for staff, students, and guests.

April 4, 2025 · 25 min · 5202 words · Chris Beattie

Entra External ID in Education

Introducing a new Microsoft identity solution which holds the answer to a longstanding need for a parent and guardian identity provider in schools.

November 4, 2024 · 10 min · 2117 words · Chris Beattie

Passing the buck with 'hacklore'

CISA’s Bob Lord coined the term ‘hacklore’ for ‘cybersecurity folklore’, the stories we tell ourselves and others about the nature of technological risks and ways to avoid them that are grounded in fear rather than fact, rumour rather than evidence, antiquity rather than the present day. I see this everywhere, even in high-end corporate ‘cyber awareness’ programmes. Beware of charging your phone from a public USB socket, beware of accepting browser cookies, beware of updating devices on untrusted networks and so on....

July 5, 2024 · 8 min · 1559 words · Chris Beattie

Secure cloud wifi for Entra/Intune devices with Mist

It’s been an incredibly long time coming but at last I have a working proof of concept for an end-to-end entirely cloud-based enterprise wireless network.

March 18, 2024 · 8 min · 1503 words · Chris Beattie

Combining user and device certificates for wifi authentication in Intune

Modern security and wifi standards say we have to move to certificates but that’s a tall order for many, particularly if we need to replicate the user-level identification of a humble password.

February 12, 2024 · 7 min · 1443 words · Chris Beattie

NPS RADIUS with AADJ – Part 2

Updating the old ghost computer account sync script to get NPS working with Azure AD / Entra-joined devices again, but it’s a last gasp.

November 8, 2023 · 6 min · 1070 words · Chris Beattie

A zero-disruption path to better MFA

Presenting some ideas about how we can enforce more secure authentication methods without locking out users that don’t have them yet. Featured in Entra News!

October 17, 2023 · 5 min · 995 words · Chris Beattie

Testing Exchange Online via manual SMTP submission

Resurrecting a bit of troubleshooting technique from the golden age of email.

June 20, 2023 · 4 min · 650 words · Chris Beattie

Exchange Online mailbox defaults to Pacific Time

A maddening bug in Exchange that will probably never be fixed, but at least I’ll show a workaround.

May 16, 2023 · 4 min · 771 words · Chris Beattie