Security

Office 365 – Privileged Access Management is available to Office 365

As announced at the Ignite 2018 conference, a new access management capability is now available to Office 365. This new feature, called Privileged Access Management (PAM), will help you granting on a ‘just in time’ basis high level privileges to Office 365 services. PAM is currently limited to Exchange Online scope. To set it up,

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Azure – You can enable analytics for Azure Information Protection

This is a new capability being added to Azure Information Protection (AIP), currently in preview. You can now enable analytics for AIP. To do logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and reach out the Azure Information Protection configuration blade From there you should see  Configure analytics (preview) under the Manage section From this configuration blade

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Windows / Azure – Reset password from all Windows

You may be already aware that you can provide the ability to your end-user to reset their password (Self Service Password Reset – SSRP) directly from the logon screen for Windows 10 Azure AD Joined device (see https://t.co/LW060QqgGV if you want to know more). Well, Microsoft has announced a major improvement for this feature as

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Exchange Online – Implement ‘Limited Access’ Conditional Access

You may already know that you can implement a ‘limited access’ conditional access for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, allowing end-users to access content on SharePoint Online but not authorizing to download anything while accessing using non compliant devices. Now, you can do the same for Exchange Online to allow your end-users accessing their

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Azure – Secure Score is now available for Azure

You may already know Secure Score for Office 365, helping you to understand your security settings on Office 365 and providing guidance to increase it. Now, you can have Secure Score for Azure Active Directory (AAD) too The functionality is currently in preview and can be accessed either through the dedicated preview portal (https://portal.azure.com/#blade/Microsoft_AAD_IAM/ActiveDirectoryMenuBlade/IdentitySecureScore) or

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Azure – New Azure information Protection Client available

A new version (1.37.19.0) of the Azure Information Protection Client has been released. You can download it from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53018 This version includes few updates and changes: Support for the ISO standard for PDF encryption. You need to configure the below advanced configuration to enable it and then keep the PDF format for encrypted PDF files

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Security – The latest Threat Modeling tool is now in GA

The latest version of Microsoft Threat Modeling Tool (TMT) is now available in general availability (GA). If you were using the preview, you will be prompted to upgrade – NOTE it will mandatory to upgrade after Oct 15th. The 2016 version is still supported until Oct 1st, 2019. If you want to start using the

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Intune – You can now target specific users/devices when applying Windows Hello policy

With the latest updates on Intune, you can now define specific users/devices when you apply a Windows Hello policy. Until then, the Windows Hello policy was a tenant level settings and as such applied to all users/devices. To define the Windows Hello policy, go to your Intune configuration blade and reach out the Device configuration\Profiles

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Azure/Office 365 – Multi Factor Authentication app available in preview for Apple Watch

The Multi Factor Authentication application for Azure and Office 365 is now available in preview for use with Apple Watch. It supports both corporate (work account) and personal (Microsoft account) accounts with push notification. You can sign up at https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR68AojHg485IuWUUpl99NURUNFQ0OUpEQzFNRlBHUjc3NkxWSTQzSEhFRi4u

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