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Published inMar 2022
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Dwayne Natwick
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Dwayne Natwick

Dwayne Natwick is a Cloud Training Architect Lead at Opsgility, a Microsoft CSP. He has been in IT, security design, and architecture for over 30 years. His love of teaching led him to become a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Regional Lead and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Dwayne has a master’s degree in Business IT from Walsh College, the CISSP from ISC2, and 18 Microsoft certifications, including Identity and Access Administrator, Azure Security Engineer, and Microsoft 365 Security Administrator. Dwayne can be found providing and sharing information on social media, industry conferences, his blog site, and his YouTube channel. Originally from Maryland, Dwayne currently resides in Michigan with his wife and three children.
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Configuring Smart Lockout thresholds

In the previous sections, we went through the process of creating Conditional Access policies to protect against unauthorized users accessing applications and data while enforcing the zero-trust model for IAM. This section discusses how you can configure Smart Lockout to assist in preventing identity attacks.

Smart Lockout is a part of Azure AD Password Protection. The following screenshot shows how you can search and access this feature:

Figure 9.48 – Searching for Smart Lockout

Smart Lockout is used to protect users in a company from having their identity compromised through a brute-force dictionary attack. These attacks are executed by using the known username, which is generally an email address, and then automating login attempts with commonly used passwords. These attempts generally happen multiple times per minute in order to find a successful attempt. Smart Lockout is a way to configure the threshold of...

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Dwayne Natwick is a Cloud Training Architect Lead at Opsgility, a Microsoft CSP. He has been in IT, security design, and architecture for over 30 years. His love of teaching led him to become a Microsoft Certified Trainer (MCT) Regional Lead and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP). Dwayne has a master’s degree in Business IT from Walsh College, the CISSP from ISC2, and 18 Microsoft certifications, including Identity and Access Administrator, Azure Security Engineer, and Microsoft 365 Security Administrator. Dwayne can be found providing and sharing information on social media, industry conferences, his blog site, and his YouTube channel. Originally from Maryland, Dwayne currently resides in Michigan with his wife and three children.
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