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Microsoft Cloud App Security – Release 187 and 188

New Shadow IT integration with Menlo SecurityMicrosoft has added native integration with Menlo Security providing you with Shadow IT visibility into app use and control over app access. New Cloud Discovery WatchGuard log parserCloud App Security Cloud Discovery analyzes a wide range of traffic logs to rank and score apps. Now Cloud Discovery includes a …

Microsoft Cloud App Security – Release 184, 185, and 186

New enhanced alert monitoring and management experienceAs part of the Microsoft’s ongoing improvements to monitoring and managing alerts, the Cloud App Security Alerts page has been improved based on customer feedback. In the enhanced experience, the Resolved and Dismissed statuses are replaced by the Closed status with a resolution type. New global severity setting for …

Azure Sentinel – Monitoring your Logic Apps Playbooks

An Azure Logic App can be used in Azure Sentinel as a Playbook to be automatically invoked when an incident is created. You can use the Playbooks health monitoring workbook to monitor the health of your Playbooks, look for anomalies in the amount of succeeded or failed runs. At a glance, you can also view …

Azure Sentinel – Multiple playbooks to one analytic rule

Azure Sentinel playbooks help to automate tasks, improve investigations, and allow quick responses to threats. This new feature enables selection of up to 10 playbooks to run when a new alert is created. For example, an analytics rule that indicates high-risk users assigned to suspicious IPs might trigger: An Enrichment playbook will query Virus Total about the IP entities, …

Problem with mail native apps with Modern Auth & Exchange ActiveSync Disabled [Azure AD MFA]

Since iOS 11.3.1, the native mail app can support Modern Authentication. Modern Authentication is a prerequisite to apply MFA on the user. So, if you use Modern Authentication, and that you require MFA for your users when they sign in to a O365 service, and that you have disabled ActiveSync – because it is a …

Continuous Access Evaluation in Azure AD [Public Preview]

Microsoft has introduced Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) for tenants who had not configured any Conditional Access policies. CAE provides the next level of identity security by terminating active user sessions to a subset of Microsoft services (Exchange and Teams) in real-time on changes such as account disable, password reset, and admin initiated user revocation. The …

Conditional Access for Office 365 Suite [General Availability]

The 8th October, Microsoft is announcing GA of Conditional Access for the Office 365 Suite! You can set a policy for all Office 365 apps, including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, and Microsoft Teams, as well as micro-services used by these well-known apps, by targetting Office 365 Suite in the Conditional Access policy. With the GA …

Publisher verification and app consent policies [General Availability]

With usage of cloud apps and the remote work, attackers leverage application-based attacks, such as consent phishing. Indeed, they try to to gain unwarranted access to valuable data in cloud services. General availability of publisher verification At the beginning of this month, Microsoft announced that publisher verification was generally available. This capability allows developers to add a …

Migrating from Exchange Transport Rules to Unified DLP

Microsoft shared a document that provides an overview of how enterprise customers can migrate their existing Exchange Transport Rules to Unified DLP portal. It walks through the different stages of migration and shows the effectiveness of the unified DLP portal as a single place to define all aspects of your DLP strategy. In summary, this …

Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention [Public Preview]

In order to accelerate the deployment of a comprehensive information protection strategy, Microsoft announcedb the public preview of Microsoft Endpoint Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) is a solution that understands and classifies data, keeps it protected, and prevents data loss across M365 apps, M365 services, third-party SaaS applications… Endpoint DLP now extends …

Announcement – Microsoft Threat Protection enhancements [Public Preview]

Today, Microsoft is announcing public preview for three exciting enhancements: MTP Incident and Hunting APIs New MTP SIEM connectors for Splunk Enterprise and Micro Focus ArcSight MTP alerts will be available soon via the Microsoft Graph Security API Microsoft Threat protection APIs The Incidents API - This API exposes Microsoft Threat Protection incidents. You can pull all the alerts …

Office 365 ATP connector for Azure Sentinel [Public Preview]

Nice to see the Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection connector for Azure Sentinel ! Description Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) safeguards your organization against malicious threats posed by email messages, links (URLs) and collaboration tools. By ingesting Office 365 ATP alerts into Azure Sentinel, you can incorporate information about email- and URL-based threats into …

On-premises data at rest DLP [Private Preview]

Microsoft DLP for on-premises is part of the Microsoft 365 DLP suite of features you can use to discover and protect your sensitive data across Microsoft 365 services. This feature will allow you to scan on-premises file shares or SharePoint and detect when sensitive data is overshared. This gives you the visibility and control you …

Microsoft Cloud App Security – Release 182 and 183

Access and session controls for Azure portal GA Conditional Access App Control for the Azure portal is now generally available. For information about configuring these controls, see the Deployment guide.

Application Guard for M365 Apps [Public Preview]

Files from the internet and other potentially unsafe locations can contain viruses, worms, or other kinds of malware that can harm your users’ computer and data. To help protect your users, Office opens files from potentially unsafe locations in Application Guard, a secure container that is isolated from the device through hardware-based virtualization. When Office …

Restrict guest access permissions in Azure Active Directory [Public Preview]

There are a new access level for Guest users in order to limit their permissions : Permission level Access level Same as member users Guests have the same access to Azure AD resources as member users Limited access (default) Guests can see membership of all non-hidden groups Restricted access (new) Guests can’t see membership of …

Revoke guest access to SharePoint Online and OneDrive after a defined period of time

Update 19/05/2021 : Microsoft has updated the rollout timeline. The roll out will begin at the end of May You will soon be able to create a policy that automatically revokes access for external guests to SharePoint Online (SPO) sites and individual OneDrives after a defined period of time.  When will this happenMicrosoft will gradually roll …

SHA-2 signing enforcement on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 – MDATP

Microsoft Defender ATP running on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2 is moving to exclusively use SHA-2 signing, which will help drive greater security for our customers. This change does not require any action unless you are running Microsoft Defender ATP on Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2. Customers that are running on these …

Share MDATP alerts with Microsoft Compliance Center

A new feature appeared on MDATP : Share endpoint alerts with Microsoft Compliance CenterForwards endpoint security alerts and their triage status to Microsoft Compliance Center, allowing you to enhance insider risk management policies with alerts and remediate internal risks before they cause harm. Forwarded data is processed and stored in the same location as your Office 365 …

Public preview of Microsoft Defender ATP web content filtering do not require additional licences anymore

There are an update from my previous article on Web Content Filtering. Indeed, it is now included as part of your Microsoft Defender ATP subscription – no additional licenses or costs, no additional partner license needed anymore. Until the announcement of the 6th July, you needed an active 60-day trial subscription with a partner license …