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What’s new with Microsoft Entra ID Protection

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 …

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Auto labeling (for files at rest in SharePoint Online) can now label PDF files

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 …

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: PDF files encrypted with sensitivity label can be searched and eDiscovered

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 …

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Discover and co-author documents labeled with user-defined permissions

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 …

Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management – Microsoft Graph APIs for extensibility

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 …

Use double-key encryption to protect your most sensitive files and emails in Microsoft 365 Apps

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 …

Mitigate risks with application block in Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management [Public Preview]

Remediating vulnerabilities in organizations takes time so it’s essential to have effective risk management strategies in place. We know that addressing software vulnerabilities can be challenging due to a variety of factors. To help with risk mitigation, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management (MDVM) users can leverage the application block feature to take immediate action to block …

Authenticator number matching to be enabled for all users

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. …

Announcing device isolation support for Linux [Public Preview]

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 …

Defender for Endpoint and disconnected environments. Which proxy configuration wins?

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 …

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Release 232-239

Intune – Migrating between Mobile Threat Defense solutions

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 – New device control capabilities to manage removable storage media access

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, …

Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Cloud Kerberos Trust [General Availability]

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 …

AAD Security Reader Role in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Alignment with Microsoft 365 Defender

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 …

Maintain protection when creating PDFs [Preview]

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 …

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Release 227, 228, 229, 230 & 231

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 …

Rollout of Security Default in Microsoft tenants

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 …

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Release 226

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.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Release 225

Support for Rome and San Diego ServiceNow versionsThe Defender for Cloud Apps connector for ServiceNow now supports Rome and San Diego versions of ServiceNow. With this update, you can protect the latest versions of ServiceNow using Defender for Cloud Apps. For more information, see Connect ServiceNow to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps.

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Category: Azure

What’s new with Microsoft Entra ID Protection

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Auto labeling (for files at rest in SharePoint Online) can now label PDF files

Microsoft Purview compliance portal: PDF files encrypted with sensitivity label can be searched and eDiscovered

Microsoft Purview Information Protection: Discover and co-author documents labeled with user-defined permissions

Microsoft Purview | Data Lifecycle Management and Records Management – Microsoft Graph APIs for extensibility

Use double-key encryption to protect your most sensitive files and emails in Microsoft 365 Apps

Mitigate risks with application block in Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management [Public Preview]

Authenticator number matching to be enabled for all users

Announcing device isolation support for Linux [Public Preview]

Defender for Endpoint and disconnected environments. Which proxy configuration wins?

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Release 232-239

Intune – Migrating between Mobile Threat Defense solutions

Intune – New device control capabilities to manage removable storage media access

Windows Hello for Business Hybrid Cloud Kerberos Trust [General Availability]

AAD Security Reader Role in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Alignment with Microsoft 365 Defender

Maintain protection when creating PDFs [Preview]

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Release 227, 228, 229, 230 & 231

Rollout of Security Default in Microsoft tenants

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Release 226

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps – Release 225

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