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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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Creating and managing break-glass accounts

As we continue to secure our identities with security and governance features, such as Multi-Factor Authentication, Conditional Access policies, Identity Governance, and PIM solutions, it is important to make sure that we do not mistakenly get locked out of Azure AD. To protect against potential lockout and to make sure that access is still available in a potential emergency situation, you should configure at least two emergency-access or break-glass accounts. These accounts are accounts of high privileges with access at the level of a global administrator. These accounts are not protected with Multi-Factor Authentication, meaning that they can gain access quickly to resources when other administrator accounts cannot gain access. They should also be excluded from all Conditional Access policies. The use of these accounts should be limited to this scenario and the credentials should be locked away and kept in a secure location, such as a password...

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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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