Day: July 29, 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 …