With Microsoft's focus on Defender for * and Azure AD Premium P2 features, you might start to believe that you can't be successful in your identity and zero trust journeys when you don't have these products and licenses. The opposite is true: without doing the basics in your Azure AD tenant, all these advanced products don't perform as well as you'd think... After numerous Azure AD security assessments, Sander Berkouwer has identified the basics that most organizations seem to have forgotten. Without these basic measures, their Microsoft 365 services are at risk regarding security, privacy, and productivity. For most organizations applying these basics is trivial and relatively easy to start with. Come to this session to learn the basics and their caveats, and then confidently apply the basics to your Azure AD tenant!