Alex Simons
@Alex_A_Simons
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Corporate VP Product Management Microsoft Identity and Network Access Division
Redmond, WA
Joined February 2013
If you have complex Conditional Access (CA) Policies, understanding them and identifying gaps is a challenge. Our CA Optimizer Agent is great way to enhance security & save time. Learn about updates to this agent and how it simplifies security management
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From chatting with the agent to integrating with ServiceNow, the CA Optimization Agent is helping you deploy policies confidently and optimize access with...
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My latest blog post - A vision for AI agents and some thoughts on opportunities to evolve OAuth to better support this huge wave of innovation. https://t.co/uhKeSey8lq
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Our industry needs to continue working together on identity standards for agent access across systems.
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@GitHubCopilot @Copilot @Azure @xai @nttdata_inc @fujitsu @StanfordHealth @pavandavuluri @events_msft @Windows @Alex_A_Simons @jared_spataro @fxshaw @rv_guha @Computerworld ๐ TL;DR: For CIOs, Agents Are Enterprise-Ready Key takeaways: ๐ง Agents = New digital workforce ๐ ๏ธ GitHub + Azure = Build, test, govern ๐ Entra + Purview = Secure by design ๐ MCP + NLWeb = Future of AI-native internet ๐งฉ Unified agent platform ๐ Rethink AI, DevOps, policy
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Exciting news today: Announcing Entra Agent ID's - definitely the coolest project I've worked on in the last 5 years! https://t.co/YorqBN6pS0
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Visibility to your organizationโs AI agents is the first step in a comprehensive identity and access management solution for non-human identities.
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Congratulations Microsoft This is one of the biggest milestones in identity Phishing Resistant MFA at no additional cost! It was previously not easy to get end users to adopt physical passkeys on mobile phones - too complex! This solves that problem.
๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ค๐๐ฒ๐ฌ ๐ข๐ง ๐๐ข๐๐ซ๐จ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ญ ๐๐ฎ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐๐๐ญ๐จ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ฐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐๐ซ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฒ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ข๐ฅ๐๐๐ฅ๐! What does it mean? Users can now enroll passkeys in Microsoft Authenticator for their Microsoft Entra ID accounts in the default authentication methods
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Really proud of the teams for working hard to minimize permissions here.
It appears Microsoft quietly mitigated most of the risk of the "Intune company portal" device compliance CA bypass by restricting the scope of Azure AD graph tokens issued to this app, making them almost useless for most abuse scenarios. Thx @domchell for the heads up.
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Today we kicked off a webinar series explaining best practices for using Microsoft Entra Suite to create a complete Zero Trust user access model. Watch the recording of todayโs webinar and join us live for upcoming sessions. #MicrosoftEntra #IAM
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Mark your calendar for a four-part webinar series to learn how to secure and govern access for your employees with the Microsoft Entra Suite.
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Definitely worth the read! Microsoft Threat Intelligence's new research exposes a multiyear global operation by a subgroup of the Russian state actor tracked as Seashell Blizzard. Discover the advanced techniques and global reach of this threat:
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Microsoft is publishing for the first time our research into a subgroup within the Russian state actor Seashell Blizzard and its multiyear initial access operation, tracked by Microsoft Threat...
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>> Not Microsoft Related << if you are interested in the use of Ecological Dynamics in coaching, make sure to check out the video I posted today to YouTube - would love to discuss with other coaches and learn more!
For last 4 years I've been using an Ecological Dynamics & Differential Learning based approach to coaching. Hoping to share and learn from other coaches. Here I discuss a recent practice and the activities and constraints we used: https://t.co/1ajDiEU9lx via @YouTube
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The world will be a little less bright and engaging when TikTok shuts down in US this weekend. I've learned so much about cooking, baking, volleyball, AI & current events from TikTok creators & during the pandemic, it was my escape when I was "bored in the house". Will miss it!
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Pretty excited about this!
Theย migration toolย for Active Directory Federation Service (AD FS) customers to move their apps to Microsoft Entra ID is now generally available - @azuread -
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Phishing is a very popular technique of attackers. They trick users into entering their credentials on some fraudulent site pretending to be a corporate login page, for example to log into Microsoft Entra ID. The user enters their login credentials there and sends them to the
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At Microsoft we've completed our migration to Entra ID Governance from SailPoint and in the process have saved $1.5M+ per year. Lots of cool details in the case study we just published: https://t.co/ycgXSXWnAz
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Microsoft will host a Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit on Sept. 10 to meet with CrowdStrike and other endpoint security partners and discuss improving resiliency and protection for mutual customersโ critical infrastructure.
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On Sept. 10, 2024, Microsoft will host a Windows Endpoint Security Ecosystem Summit at our Redmond, Was
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