In this increasingly digital world, identity is the most attacked surface area, and the sophistication and frequency of attacks continue to rise. Manual investigations and responses can’t keep pace. We need to think differently about how we protect identities from compromise and respond rapidly to emerging threats. Microsoft Entra ID Protection (recently renamed from Azure …
In order to better protect our customers from exact domain spoofing attacks and improve deliverability of email, Microsoft is making changes to how we handle DMARC p=reject and p=quarantine. For the enterprise customers, Microsoft is making updates to how DMARC policy-based reject can be handled. This change will help Security Administrators be able to choose …
Auto labeling (for files at rest in SharePoint Online) will soon label PDF files. When this will happen: Preview: Rollout to public preview will begin in mid-July 2023 and expect to complete by early August 2023. How this will affect your organization: Once the changes are rolled out to your tenant, the following are …
Public preview alert. We have started rolling out support for labeled PDF files in SharePoint Online. SharePoint now supports search, eDiscovery, DLP for sensitivity label encrypted PDFs. The sensitivity column will start showing the label names for newly uploaded PDF files. When this will happen: Preview: This rollout is underway and expected to complete by …
Currently rolling out in public preview, SharePoint and OneDrive will support discovery and coauthoring of files labeled with user-defined permissions. When this will happen: Rollout to public preview began in mid-June and is expected to be complete by early September. Standard release will begin in mid-September 2023 (previously early September) and is expected to be …
The ability for Microsoft Teams users to report internalchats, channels and meeting conversations within Teams as a security risk will be turned ON by default. Security risk messages could include ones that contain phishing or spam or malicious content, such as phishing URL or malware file, spam content. To learn how end users can report, …
As a part of the extensibility vision and first release to Microsoft Graph, Microsoft is introducing three new APIs for retention labels, events, and event types in the Microsoft Graph beta environment. These APIs will enable you to customize and extend on what we have built in the product so far. These APIs can be …
To protect your most sensitive content, users of Microsoft 365 Apps can now use Double Key Encryption (DKE) for files and emails using the built-in labeling client. With DKE, Microsoft stores one key in Microsoft Azure and you hold the other key, ensuring that only you can ever decrypt protected content, under all circumstances. Sensitivity labels configured …
In the past Windows Business users could add a consumer account to Windows to use within various apps. Users could use this Consumer account to configure syncing their OneDrive consumer files via the OneDrive sync client. This summer the OneDrive Sync client will start prompting Business users if they’d like to sync their Consumer files …
On July 18, 2023, Microsoft will be retiring a subset of signatures found in the “NetworkSignaturesInspected” action type of Advanced Hunting. With the recent integration of Zeek providing advanced protocol parsing capabilities, which result in better visibility into full network sessions compared to the raw packet bytes found in the “NetworkSignaturesInspected” action type of Advanced …
Set your work location for the day in Microsoft Teams so your team can learn about your availability for in-office and remote collaboration. When this will happen: Targeted Release and Preview: Microsoft has begun rollout and expect to complete rollout by late May. Standard Release: Microsoft expect to complete rollout by early August. How this …
Starting in September 2023, Microsoft will begin including new Microsoft Teams as part of the new and existing installations of Microsoft 365 apps for Windows depending on the schedule provided in this post. Currently, users can install the new Teams by using the Try the new Teams toggle switch in classic Teams or having administrators …