Tom Rolvers

I enjoy learning al sorts of new techniques and software to make our digital worlds more secure!

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

ASR rules in audit mode give you zero protection.

Call to action: stop treating audit mode as a final stop.
It is a starting point. The data is only useful if you act on it.

Full walkthrough with KQL queries and Intune steps:

https://t.co/k48mLQPZKC

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

If you're curious about how Microsoft access tokens work under the hood, maybe it's useful to you too. I call it "A Token of Appreciation" ���

https://t.co/UuLAhNQ1Dx

#Microsoft #EntraID #JWT #IdentitySecurity #SecurityResearch

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

Update: AzureWithTom is now SecurityWithTom. 🦉

The site has a new name a little refreshed look, and the content focus is now broader across multiple tracks.

Read about it here: https://t.co/e6VWdEdUQx

If you’ve followed the site so far, thank you. 🫶

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

Ever seen PIM throw ‘CannotDeleteLastAdminAssignment’?

🧩I ran into a strange edge case that ended up as an MSRC report, Microsoft confirmed and fixed it. Full write-up

🔗 https://t.co/HM5boQ2RLR

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

Reminder for #WindowsAutopatch admins:
Migrate to the Win32 Client Broker for better reliability and on-demand deployment. Script-based installs still work, but the Win32 app is the new standard.
➡️ https://t.co/AhdxDAzyYm

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

Windows Autopatch just got better in 2025:
✅ Hotpatching for Win11
✅ Better reporting in Intune
✅ Now for Business Premium

I wrote a quick rundown on what’s new + how to get started:

https://t.co/d3HNKQs5FR

#Windows11 #Autopatch #Intune #hotpatch #microsoftsecurity

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

New blogpost!

Implementing "Attack Surface Reduction" policies is in my opinion mandatory.

If you have not yet touched this feature, please make sure to give it a shot and configure it!

https://t.co/Z1gsPUCpS1
#ASRrules #MicrosoftSecurity #AttackSurfaceReduction #MDE

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

🔐 You can now add the E5 Security Add-on to Business Premium!
📢 Important: Check out if your license state is correct! 🔗 Read more about it:
https://t.co/iSvqbT2RPC

#Entra #XDR #E5Security #Microsoft

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

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[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

Want to create a set of Analytic rules for your Microsoft Sentinel environment based on used Solutions? I wrote a blog post about it.

Go check it out! :-D

https://t.co/5Cq10nrnmi

#MicrosoftSecurity #MicrosoftSentinel #AnalyticRules

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

🚀 New Blog Post Alert! 🌟
After a long time with no blog posts it was time to dust of that good 'ol website.

Todays blog "Manage permissions for Microsoft Sentinel across Multiple Environments with Lighthouse"! 🌐🔐

https://t.co/0xkZqdSrSZ

#AzureLighthouse #MicrosoftSentinel

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

@micheltenhove @janbakker_ Mooie upgrade als je van de traditionele MFA sweep afkomt. Goeie post @janbakker_ 💪🏻

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

New blogpost!

We tend to improve our security in our Microsoft environments. But lets not forget our DNS configurations. In this blog I will tell you more about this. Also more about e-mail validation!
https://t.co/mdyNh1EyQe

#emailsecurity #Microsoft #mfa #dns #mdo

[Tom Rolvers @Securitywithtom]

@janbakker_ @JussiRoine 60% keyboard here… anyway, in allot of cases you can add the kind of language to the first three ’’’JSON for example. It will have the same effect as VSC does!