Stefan Dingemanse

Founder of Brainpulse IT and Identity & Endpoint Security Architect in the Microsoft ecosystem. Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer.

13 October 2026

Five Conditional Access policies every organisation needs

Conditional Access is where Microsoft Entra ID decides who can access what, and under which conditions. It is the Zero Trust policy engine. Yet in many environments we find a collection of policies that has grown over the years: an exception for a project, a policy that was switched on once and that nobody dares to touch any more.

29 September 2026

BYOD or corporate device: managing mobile devices securely with Intune

For most employees, the smartphone is the first device they use to read their email, reply in Teams and open a document. Yet mobile management is often less carefully designed than laptop management. Founder Stefan Dingemanse has been a Microsoft MVP for seven years, in both Security (Intune) and Windows and Devices (Windows 365), and is a Microsoft Certified Trainer. At organisations with 100 to over 1000 employees, he often hears the same question: do we manage the whole device, or only the business apps and data?

15 September 2026

Why your Microsoft knowledge ages faster than your licences

You renew your Microsoft 365 licences every year, often without giving it much thought. The knowledge of your IT team does not renew itself. Yet the environment that knowledge is about changes faster than many organisations keep up with. What was the right configuration two years ago may today be outdated, less secure or no longer available at all.

25 August 2026

Dutch Cyber Security Act: being secure is not enough, you must be able to prove it

Since 15 August 2026, the Dutch Cyber Security Act (Cyberbeveiligingswet, Cbw) has applied in the Netherlands. It is the Dutch implementation of the European NIS2 Directive. According to the NCSC (the Dutch National Cyber Security Centre), more than 8,000 organisations fall under it. For them, cyber security is no longer a good intention. It is a legal obligation for which the board itself is responsible.