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Intune Administrator Licensing

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All Intune administrators need a Microsoft Intune license by default. You can change this in the Mi- crosoft Intune admin center (https://intune.microsoft.com) at a later point, allowing you to give administrators access to Microsoft Intune without requiring an Intune license. To get an administrator license, you need to follow these steps: 1.  Go to Tenant admin | Roles | Administrator Licensing.  2.  Click Allow access to unlicensed admins: Figure : Microsoft Intune admin center – Administrator Licensing Figure : Microsoft Intune admin center – Administrator Licensing after the change 3.  In the Microsoft 365 admin center, go to https://admin.microsoft.com. If you are a global admin, you can assign your Intune license: Figure : Microsoft 365 admin center – license assignments The Microsoft Intune license is a part of Microsoft 365 E3/E5, Microsoft 365 F1/F3 for Firstline Workers, EMS E3, as well as standalone Microsoft Intune. There are many other licenses that giv...

AWS Shield

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  Distributed denial-of-service   attacks can be defined as cyberattacks in which many different compromised sources generate traffic intended to make a computer or network resource unavailable to its originally intended users. Classic firewalling techniques are challenged by DDoS attacks for two main reasons: blocking traffic requires the characterization of all sources, and firewall capacity may also be at risk when dealing with a high number of connections. To protect applications deployed in the AWS Cloud from such attacks, Amazon offers AWS Shield. This service provides constant detections and automatic inline mitigations that minimize application downtime or performance degradation against DDoS attacks at two different levels: AWS Shield Standard and AWS Shield Advanced. AWS Shield Standard is a no-cost version that defends your environment against the most common network (layer 3) and transport (layer 4) known infrastructure attacks. It relies on detection techniques su...