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- Microsoft, Identity
Microsoft Entra’s Hard Deletion Protection, now in preview, gives administrators a seven-day window to recover selected identities before they can be permanently erased. The feature is designed to help organizations respond to accidental or malicious deletion of critical directory objects. It supports users that are not synchronized from on-premises systems, cloud-only groups, applications, and service principals. Entra Agent ID objects are covered through their underlying identity types. How the recovery window works Entra generally retains …
Protecting sign-ins
- Phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication – passkeys or security keys – for administrators first.
- Block the old sign-in methods that skip MFA, and review who can grant apps access to your data.
- Alert on impossible travel, newly added MFA methods and unusual consent grants.
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