In my Zero Trust posts earlier this year I wrote about verifying everything. One thing I didn\u00b4t go into is the device. A username and a password tell you who claims to logon. The device tells you a lot about whether you should believe it.<\/p>\n
Think about it. A correct password from a managed, patched and encrypted laptop is one thing. The same password from a computer that has never been seen before is something completely different. The identity is the same, the risk is not.<\/p>\n
Technically this isn\u00b4t hard anymore. Enroll your devices in a device management tool like Intune and define what a healthy device is: encrypted disk, up to date patches, antimalware running and no jailbreak on the phones. Then let your Conditional Access policies require a compliant device for access to the sensitive stuff. Unmanaged devices can still get access to the less sensitive services, perhaps only through the browser and without the possibility to download.<\/p>\n
The beauty is that the user doesn\u00b4t notice much. Most of the checks happen in the background. The attacker however will notice, because a stolen password suddenly isn\u00b4t enough.<\/p>\n
Trust the device, then trust the user a little more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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