When this will happen: Beginning May 8, 2023 How this affects your organization: To prevent accidental approvals, admins can require users to enter a number displayed on the sign-in screen when approving an MFA request in the Microsoft Authenticator app. This feature is critical to protecting against MFA fatigue attacks which are on the rise. … […]
When this will happen: Rollout to Current Channel (preview) will begin in mid-March (previously early March) and is expected to be complete by early April (previously mid-March). Rollout to Current Channel will begin in early May (previously early April) and is expected to be complete by mid-May (previously late April). How this will affect your … […]
Overview Some attack scenarios may require you to isolate a device from the network. This action can help prevent the attacker from controlling the compromised device and performing further activities such as data exfiltration and lateral movement. Just like in Windows devices, this device isolation feature disconnects the compromised device from the network while retaining connectivity to the … […]
This article is a follow-up to a previous one discussing conflicting proxy configurations and how Microsoft Defender for Endpoint behaves in these situations. The first article can be found in here. As outlined in the documentation, Defender for Endpoint supports three different types of proxy configurations: However, when these configurations are mixed, it can cause confusion … […]
Attack Simulation Training is an intelligent phish risk reduction tool that measures behavior change and automates deployment of an integrated security awareness training program across an organization. It is available with Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft Defender for Office 365 P2 plan. As per the previous experience, users were directed to the Microsoft curated credential harvest login … […]
Intune can integrate data from Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and other non-Microsoft MTD partners as an information source for unenrolled devices using Intune app protection policies (APP). Admins can use this information to help protect corporate data within an Intune protected app and issue a block or selective wipe through APP conditional launch settings … […]
Intune is excited to announce new device control capabilities that allows greater flexibility for enhanced endpoint security. This feature allows IT admins to manage access and use of removable storage devices, such as USB and solid-state drives, on Intune-managed devices. Admins will be able to configure the allow, block, or auditing permissions to read, write, … […]
Historically, admins that needed to move mailboxes between Microsoft 365 tenants were required to export or offboard the mailbox to on-premises and then import or onboard the mailbox to a new tenant. Today, Microsoft is thrilled to announce that cross-tenant user data migration is now generally available. Specifically, the cross-tenant mailbox migration and cross-tenant OneDrive migration features previously in … […]
Microsoft is excited to announce the general availability of hybrid cloud Kerberos trust, a new Windows Hello for Business deployment model that enables a passwordless sign-in experience. Why passwordless and Windows Hello for Business? Windows Hello for Business is a modern, strong, two-factor authentication method that is a more secure alternative to passwords and has … […]
Given feedback from customer on the need for an additional time to triage the emails or files that were quarantined as result of potential malware, Microsoft is increasing the retention period from 15 days to 30 days. When this will happen Standard Release: will begin rolling this out by end of July and expect to … […]
Currently the AAD “Security Reader” role can manage Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps alerts, however, it can only view alerts from all other security workloads. The AAD “Security Reader” role update will now be aligned with AAD role definition to provide clarity and prevent confusion of the same role use. When this will happen: As … […]
Please review the blog post: Apply sensitivity labels to PDFs created with Office apps for additional details. Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft is introducing the ability to maintain label and protection for PDF files created from Microsoft Office apps. When this will happen: Public preview: rollout will begin in late June and is expected to … […]
With the deployment of the Tenant Allow/Block List, as being the single source of truth for Tenant Allows, other mechanisms for Tenant Allows are being removed. This will give SecOps teams one place to manage all Tenant Allows. Today, “DoNotRewrite” list is used to Skip wrapping URLs Detonation(SONAR) Verdicts. The intended purpose of “DoNotRewrite” is … […]
When all holds and retention policies are removed from an inactive mailbox, it becomes soft-deleted and remains in Exchange for a period of time to allow for recovery before permanent deletion. Based on customer feedback, and to maintain consistency with other solutions, Microsoft will be changing this period to 30 days (from current 183 days). … […]
With this change Microsoft is giving the ability to password protects items they download from quarantine. Microsoft wants users to be confident that the items they are downloading to their systems will not execute involuntarily without their consent, and this capability will allow them to safely transport the items to external analysis tools. When this … […]
Malware hashes available for SharePoint and OneDrive (Preview)In addition to file hashes available for malware detected in non-Microsoft storage apps, now new malware detection alerts will provide hashes for malware detected in SharePoint and OneDrive. For more information, see Malware detection. SaaS Security Posture Management capabilities for Salesforce and ServiceNowSecurity posture assessments are available for Salesforce … […]
Microsoft has begun the rollout of security defaults to existing customers who haven’t yet rolled out security defaults or Azure AD Conditional Access. Microsoft introduced security defaults in October 2019 for new tenants, ensuring that new customers would be created and maintained with basic security hygiene in place – especially MFA and modern auth requirements – regardless … […]
The April 13, Microsoft announced general availability of differentiated protection for priority accounts, people like executives, leaders, managers, or other users who have access to sensitive, proprietary, or high priority information. With this release, users tagged as priority accounts will receive a higher level of protection against threats. Licences The Priority account protection feature is … […]
Improvements in malware detection for non-Microsoft storage appsDefender for Cloud Apps has introduced major improvements in the non-Microsoft storage apps detection mechanism. This will reduce the number of false positive alerts. Read More
