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How to Improve Microsoft Secure Score

Some improvement actions give points only when fully completed, while others give partial points if they’ve been completed for some devices or users. Here we’ll provide 10 tips on how to improve your Microsoft Secure Score, along with the impact to your score should you complete them. Multifactor Authentication (MFA) Score impact = +3.9% | Achievable points Read More

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How to Find the OpenID configuration document URI from Azure

Every app registration in Azure AD is provided a publicly accessible endpoint that serves its OpenID configuration document. To determine the URI of the configuration document’s endpoint for your app, append the well-known OpenID configuration path to your app registration’s authority URL. Well-known configuration document path: /.well-known/openid-configuration Authority URL: https://login.microsoftonline.com/{tenant}/v2.0 The value of {tenant} varies based on the application’s sign-in audience as Read More

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How to Install Microsoft Defender Application Guard

Before you continue, review System requirements for Microsoft Defender Application Guard to review the hardware and software installation requirements for Microsoft Defender Application Guard.  Note Microsoft Defender Application Guard is not supported on VMs and VDI environment. For testing and automation on non-production machines, you may enable WDAG on a VM by enabling Hyper-V nested virtualization on Read More

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How to Fix “missing newline or line too long” in a Linux Server

Question How to remove the following errors when noticed in “/etc/hosts.allow” and “/etc/hosts.deny” files. 1) auth|security:err| error sshd[7275222]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line0: missing newline or line too long 2) auth|security:err| error sshd[7275222]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line0: missing newline or line too long Answer To remove the errors do the following on the management node as root. Go to the Read More

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List of ISO 3166 Country Codes

Country/Region codes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ISO_3166_country_codes If you are using the Geomatch operator, the selectors can be any of the following two-digit country/region codes. Country/Region code Country/Region name AD Andorra AE United Arab Emirates AF Afghanistan AG Antigua and Barbuda AL Albania AM Armenia AO Angola AR Argentina AS American Samoa AT Austria AU Australia AZ Azerbaijan BA Read More

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How to Allow SSH Access Based on Country

GeoIP database has records of Geographical location based on IP address. Using this database we can search for any IP belonging to which country using the Linux command line. This article will help you to allow SSH or FTP (vsftpd) access based on the user’s country. This example uses TCP wrappers to secure your services. Read More