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AiTM Token Theft: Detect Replay, Enforce Auth Strengths

AiTM token theft defeats MFA by replaying stolen session cookies. Hunt replay in Entra sign-in logs and enforce phishing-resistant auth strengths.

Thorsteinn Halldorsson · October 29, 2026 · 16 min read Intermediate Read article →
DevOps

OpenTofu vs Terraform: Choosing After the IBM Acquisition

OpenTofu vs Terraform compared on licensing, feature drift, registry trust and migration cost, with a decision matrix for standardising your IaC.

Thorsteinn Halldorsson · October 27, 2026 · 16 min read Intermediate
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Microsoft 365

SharePoint OTP Retirement: Move Guests to Entra B2B

SharePoint OTP retirement is here: find external recipients with no Entra B2B guest account, restore their access, and govern guests with PowerShell.

Thorsteinn Halldorsson · October 19, 2026 · 16 min read Intermediate
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Security

CSP Break-Glass Accounts and Passkeys for Customer Tenants

CSP break-glass accounts done right: phishing-resistant passkeys for technicians, GDAP role tiers, emergency access custody, and drift checks at scale.

Thorsteinn Halldorsson · October 8, 2026 · 17 min read Intermediate
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Security

Passkeys and Break Glass Accounts in One Entra Tenant

Entra emergency access accounts and passkeys in one tenant: FIDO2 keys for break glass, Conditional Access exclusions, sign-in alerts and quarterly drills.

Thorsteinn Halldorsson · October 8, 2026 · 18 min read Intermediate
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Azure

Windows Server 2016 End of Support: Upgrade, Arc or ESU?

Windows Server 2016 end of support lands January 2027. Compare in-place upgrade, Azure Arc ESU and migration with a cost and risk matrix.

Thorsteinn Halldorsson · October 1, 2026 · 20 min read Intermediate
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Security

ASCII Smuggling: Invisible Unicode Is Slipping Past Your Phishing Filters

ASCII smuggling phishing hides invisible Unicode inside lure words to dodge keyword filters — how it works, and how to normalize before you match.

Thorsteinn Halldorsson · September 30, 2026 · 13 min read Intermediate
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Microsoft 365

Intune Remote Help Governance: Quick Assist, RMM and WinRM

Intune Remote Help governance after the Teams helpdesk campaign — RBAC, Conditional Access, and WinRM hardening that close the remote-access gap.

Thorsteinn Halldorsson · September 24, 2026 · 13 min read Intermediate
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Security

Secure Boot Certificates and Memory Integrity by Default in Windows

Windows secure boot certificate update 2026 lands the same month Memory Integrity turns on by default — how to inventory, stage, and control both.

Thorsteinn Halldorsson · September 22, 2026 · 14 min read Intermediate
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Security

AI Agent Cyber Attacks: What the Unit 42 Case Changes

AI agent cyber attacks compressed an enterprise intrusion into under 10 hours. Rebuild Entra, GitHub and Key Vault containment so every step fires at once.

Thorsteinn Halldorsson · September 21, 2026 · 14 min read Intermediate
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