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More Security, Same Price Tag: What Microsoft’s Latest Intune Upgrade Means for Your GCC High Investment

September 21, 2026 kamind CMMC, Cybersecurity, Microsoft Security

Why this quiet licensing change is actually big news for defense contractors and other CMMC-bound organizations If you run a business that touches federal contracts, handles Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), or is working toward CMMC certification, you've likely already invested in Microsoft's Government Community Cloud, High (GCC High). It's the secure, U.S.-only version of Microsoft 365 ...

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AI Agents Are the New Employees: Why Identity Governance Matters More Than Ever

September 6, 2026 kamind AI Governance, Cybersecurity, Microsoft Security

As businesses adopt AI tools like Microsoft Copilot and autonomous agents, many leaders are approaching AI as a software problem. In reality, it may be more useful to think of AI agents as a workforce problem. Why? Because modern AI agents increasingly behave like digital employees. They access information. They perform tasks. They make decisions within defined boundaries. ...

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An Overview of the HIPAA NPRM

July 8, 2025 kamind Cybersecurity

Due to rising cyberthreats, several data privacy laws have emerged over the past few years, including the GDPR, HIPAA, and the CCPA. These laws are designed to protect your data and give you the right to know what is being done with it and for what purposes. This article focuses on HIPAA and a new amendment ...

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Microsoft Purview: Your Data Governance Ally

May 28, 2025 kamind Cybersecurity

By Isaac Walker In today’s digital, data-filled world, managing and protecting sensitive information is more complex than ever. With the rise of cloud services, remote work, and AI-powered tools, data governance has become a critical pillar of cybersecurity. That’s where Microsoft Purview comes in. What is Microsoft Purview? Microsoft Purview is a comprehensive suite of data governance, security, ...

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Why Azure Data Factory (ADF) Became My Secret Weapon for Security Data Warehousing

May 9, 2025 kamind Cybersecurity

Over the past few months, I’ve been building out a Security Data Warehouse—a centralized place where we pull in data from a variety of sources: Microsoft Defender logs, sign-in events, compliance snapshots, and more. For most of these, we’ve built custom API connectors or pull data directly from log streams. But I ran into a recurring ...

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BitLocker Essentials: Protecting Your Data with Advanced Encryption

May 7, 2025 axionadmin Cybersecurity

BitLocker is a Windows security feature designed to protect data by encrypting drives, making it inaccessible to unauthorized users. This document provides an overview of BitLocker, its types, recovery methods, and potential activation reasons. What Is It? There are two main types of BitLocker: Device Encryption, which is enabled by default and covers the entire device, and ...

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Tracking Defender Antivirus Scans with Log Analytics Insights & Actionable Steps

March 19, 2025 kamind Cybersecurity

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint provides powerful antivirus scanning capabilities, but how do you ensure that full scans are occurring regularly across all devices? With Log Analytics, you can track antivirus scans, analyze trends, and take action if full scans are not happening often enough. In this post, we’ll walk through how to use Kusto Query Language ...

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SMS Or an Authenticator App – Which One Is More Secure?

January 8, 2025 kamind Cybersecurity

In the world that we live in today, simply using a password is not enough.  Although it has been the most widely used mechanism for authentication, it suffers from many flaws that the Cyberattacker can take advantage of quite easily.  Thus, many businesses today are now requiring their employees and contractors to submit through ...

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Understanding Azure Recovery Service Vaults (RSVs) : Ensuring Secure and Reliable Backup Solutions By Tulasi Nakka

December 11, 2024 kamind Cybersecurity

In today's digital landscape, safeguarding data is paramount. Azure Recovery Services Vaults (RSVs) play a crucial role in protecting sensitive information and ensuring business continuity. This blog will explore what Recovery Services Vaults are, the different types available, essential settings to configure, and key results to monitor for optimal backup management. What Are Recovery Service Vaults ...

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A Review of The Public Key Infrastructure

December 10, 2024 kamind Cybersecurity

As digital assets become even more interconnected with each other, the need to make sure that any information and data that is transmitted to and through them are difficult to intercept by the Cyberattacker. One area that is being used quite heavily in this regard is known as Encryption and is a branch of Cryptography.  This ...

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