As you know, Office 365 comes with capabilities to help you protect your data and ensure compliance – namely Pureview Information Protection and Pureview Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Well, good news as you can now enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for both features (in preview). After turning it on, compliance policies like DLP and auto-labeling …
If you are using the grant control ‘Require approved client app’ in your Conditional Access policies, you need to update and migrate to use the grant control ‘Require application protection policy’ before March 2026. At this date, the control ‘Require approved client app’ will no longer be enforced and will act as if it was …
If you use Azure Firewall to protect your resources running on Azure, you will be glad that you can now use new FQDN tags to easily manage access to Office 365 services. To do so, just edit or create your firewall rules, select the Destination as Service Tags and search for Office 365 This …
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You are probably already aware about the capability to enable for messages sent using Teams (Safe Links). Well, you can now also enable quarantine capabilities for Teams to help protect your users from malicious message. In fact, it is an extension of the Safe Links capability to support ZAP (Zero-hour Auto Purge), quarantine and reporting. …
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As you probably know, you can restrict access and permission to Office document using Information Protection. Well, until now, you had to individually add each and every users using their email address. However there is situation where you can add each users because you may not know or the shared document needs to be protected …
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As you know, Azure AD allows you to request multi-factor authentication (MFA) using the Azure AD MFA and Microsoft Authenticator application. Since its introduction Azure AD MFA has been continuously improved. Latest improvement was to request a number matching during the MFA process to avoid accidental approval and fight against MFA fatigue …
Azure AD – Authenticator number matching will be enabled for all users Read More »
Azure AD comes with a lot of security features – some recent such as Passwordless authentication, some less recent such as conditional access – helping protecting your identities and workloads access. Well, in the never ending journey to keep secure identities and data, the Conditional Access feature has been updated to allow administrators to request …
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If you use Azure Firewall you know you have to create (and then maintain) a Firewall Policy; which can become a tricky operation as policy updates may be required several a week or a day. In addition, the team in charge of maintaining such policies may not be aware of updates impacting the protected workloads …
The new Azure Information Protection (aka AIP, aka AIP Unified Labelling, aka Azure Information Protection Unified Labelling) client is now available. This version – 2.14.90.0 – is mainly fixing few bugs and does not provide any major improvements or new features. The only ‘big’ change is the switch from Authentication Library (ADAL) to …
As you are probably aware, Microsoft and Adobe have partnered for few years already to integrate Microsoft Information Protection solution with Adobe Acrobat clients (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2018/12/13/azure-integration-of-pdf-acrobat-reader-with-azure-information-protection-is-now-generally-available/). Well, good new as this plugin is no longer required and is integrated with Adobe installer starting version 22.001.20142. This integration applies to both Windows and MacOS version.
