Month: July 2020

News Informatique

Double Key Encryption for Microsoft 365 [Public Preview]

Double Key Encryption enables you to protect your highly sensitive data while keeping full control of your encryption key. It uses two keys to protect your data—one key in your control, and a second key is stored securely in Microsoft Azure. Viewing data protected with Double Key Encryption requires access to both keys. Since Microsoft …

Office 365 ATP: External email forwarding controls and policy change

Automated external email forwarding is a tactic attackers use to exfiltrate data out of an organization. To counter that, Microsoft is updating their anti-spam policies. First, they are providing a control to easily enable automatic external forwarding for select people in your organization. Second, they will change the “Automatic” setting to block automatic external forwarding. …

Upgrade your applications to use Microsoft Graph

Microsoft is no longer adding new features to Azure AD Graph and starting June 30th, 2022 MSFT will no longer provide any technical support or security updates. Instead MSFT recommends you use Microsoft Graph, which is where they will continue to invest. Supporting APIs that are currently available in Azure AD Graph API are now …

Microsoft Defender ATP support case submission experience

Microsoft is updating the support case submission experience. Currently, the process to submit a support case related to Microsoft Defender ATP goes through the support portal at https://support.microsoft.com. Microsoft announced that they will be rolling out an upgraded support process offering a more modern and advanced support experience through the Microsoft Defender Security Center. How …

MDATP for Mac is moving to use system extensions instead of kernel extensions

In preparation for macOS 11 Big Sur, Microsoft is getting ready to release an update to Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac that will leverage new system extensions instead of kernel extensions. Apple will stop supporting kernel extensions starting macOS 11 Big Sur version. Therefore an update to the Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac agent is …

TLS 1.0 and 1.1 retirement date in Office 365 to be October 15, 2020

Microsoft is moving all of their online services to Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.2+ toprovide best-in-class encryption, and to ensure their service is more secure by default. Key Points: Major: Retirement Timing: October 15, 2020 Action: update or replace client devices as appropriate How this affects your organization: Once this change takes affect, all connections …

Office 2013 Client Connectivity to Office 365 Services

Office 2013 clients’ connections to commercial Office 365 services will not be supported after October 13, 2020. After this date, ongoing investments in the Office 365 cloud services – including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and OneDrive for Business – will proceed based on post-Office 2013 requirements. Microsoft recommends that organizations with Office 2013 clients consider …

Customization of quarantine notification

Microsoft is making it possible for you to customize quarantine notifications with your organization logo, custom display name, and a custom disclaimer. When this will happen Microsoft will begin rolling this out at the end of July (previously mid-July) and expect to be complete in September. How this will affect your organization Example of custom …

Office 365 ATP Campaign View enhancements

Microsoft is making some enhancements to Office 365 campaign views. How this will affect your organization Once rolled out the following enhancements will be available: Malware attacks are now expressed as campaigns and benefit from the same advanced clustering and visualization that phish campaigns have had Campaign timeline is now interactive, allowing inspection of what …

Automatically block guest access to new OneDrive and SharePoint files until scans are complete

You can enable Data Loss Prevention (DLP) to automatically block external access to new files in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business until those files have been fully scanned for sensitive information. How this will affect your organization This capability is available for all new files uploaded to both OneDrive and SharePoint. When new files …

Upcoming Exchange Device Access and Conditional Access changes with Outlook mobile

Recently, Microsoft discovered that certain Azure Active Directory Conditional Access policies prevented Exchange Online device access rules from being applied to Outlook for iOS and Android. For example, customers with a conditional access policy that required Multi-factor authentication (MFA) resulted in Exchange Online not processing device access rules for Outlook for iOS and Android. Beginning …

Enhancements to Threat Explorer and real-time detections

When? The rollout will be complete by mid-August. How this will affect your organization These changes include timezone improvements; making the chart legend value a filter; and updates to in-production information. In addition, there is an updated refresh process. Note that you will need to click on the Refresh button to filter results as part …

Microsoft Cloud App Security – Release 179 & 180

New anomaly detection: Suspicious OAuth app file download activitiesMicrosoft has extended their anomaly detections to include suspicious download activities by an OAuth app. The new detection is now available out-of-the-box and automatically enabled to alert you when an OAuth app downloads multiple files from Microsoft SharePoint or Microsoft OneDrive in a manner that is unusual …

Hotfix for latest AIP scanner GA version

Microsoft has identified an issue in latest GA version that impacts AIP Scanner. If you run the scanner in Enforce=On mode and “New label” events are not reported in the central logging when the scanner applies a label on previously not labeled file. The 1ç/07, Microsoft released a hotfix version 2.7.99.0 for this issue on …

Office 365 ATP recommended configuration analyzer version 1.9 released

New version 1.9.11 of ORCA (Office 365 Recommended Configuration Analyzer) ready for download: https://powershellgallery.com/packages/ORCA/ Improvements : Check if enhanced filtering is turned on (mportant if you have a solution in-front of EOP/ATP) Check for duplicate anti-malware policiesCheck for duplicate anti-malware policies Check for duplicate anti-spam policies Check for duplicate anti-phishing policies Check Safe Attachments Policy …