As announced at the Ignite Conference, a new Distributed Denial of Service protection has been added to Azure virtual network. This comes into 2 different offers: Basic and free Standard, providing custom and tuned protection based on your Azure Resource To start using it you can register for the standard preview at http://aka.ms/ddosprotection (no […]
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Authentication is a key to access corporate resources, hosted either on-premises (you can use ADFS to authenticate against Exchange to access your mailbox) or in the cloud (Office 365, Azure, Salesforce…). While Microsoft is working hard to make authentication process to his services a little bit easier for end-users (password synch, seamless single sign-on…), you
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A new security feature has been added to Azure called Azure DDoS Protection Service. This new service is integrated with Virtual Networks to protect you against DDoS attacks. It comes into 2 service levels: Azure DDoS Protection Basic Service with no additional cost associated and does not requires any configuration or application changes Azure DDoS
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A new version (1.10.56.0) of the Azure Information Protection Client has been released and is available for download at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53018. As part of this new release, you can now: enable recommended classification also for Outlook hide the Do Not Forward button in Outlook hide the custom permission options to end-user integrates with Office 365 DLP
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Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a security functionality built in Windows 10 to help detecting, investigating and protecting against threats, introduced with Windows 10 build 1607 (or known as Anniversary Build). In this post, I’m going to implement ATP integrated with SCCM Current Branch (you can request a trial for ATP here http://aka.ms/register-wdatp)
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The Azure RMS Protection tool is reaching his end of life (and support) on February 10th, 2018 If you are still using it, start upgrading your RMS client to Azure Information Protection client (current GA version available when writing this post is 1.7.210 available at https://aka.ms/aipclient)
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A new security feature has been made available in preview on Azure: Just In Time Access for virtual machine. While access and behavior of resources hosted on Azure are monitored by Microsoft to avoid malicious activities, there is still risks to get your resources, and in this case your virtual machines, being vulnerable. The Just
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A colleague of mine shared his experience while trying to make Azure AD Seamless SSO to work. As reminder Azure AD Seamless SSO is still under preview; Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign On (Azure AD Seamless SSO) provides single sign-on for users signing in on their corporate desktops connected to the corporate network. When
As you may know Office 365 Secure Score is a tool to help you securing your Office 365 tenant by checking your configuration and compare against best practices and recommendations. Microsoft has updated the Secure Score to allow you define recommended/proposed actions as managed by third party. This will help by keeping the recommended action
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Microsoft has released a security bulletin related Azure AD Connect. If you are using password write-back you need to upgrade it to the version 1.1.553.0 (released this June) urgently as you are vulnerable to a vulnerability which could allow attackers to reset passwords. Details about the security bulletin here: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/4033453.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 Download the latest version of
