Security

Azure AD – You can now use GPS coordinates for better accuracy on Named Location

As you know, you can configure Named Location on Azure AD for use with Conditional Access either based on public IP address or country. Well, when using the country based location, the real location is not always as accurate as it should. Good news, you can now use GPS coordinates to gain better accuracy when […]

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Azure AD – Emailed One Time Password will be turned on for B2B

As you may know, Azure AD has been allowing to generate a one time password and sent it by email for external (guest) users for some time (2019 – see https://t.co/5H7QBhEa3D) This feature was in preview and is now GA. It will be turn on automatically for any tenant which did not have enabled it

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Azure – A new PowerShell module is available to manage Azure Sentinel

You may now know Azure Sentinel, the cloud native SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution from Microsoft. Well, if you are using and managing Azure Sentinel you will be happy to know that a PowerShell module is now available to manage Azure Sentinel, in addition of the Azure portal. Before you deploy this module,

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Azure – You can now use Bastion with peered virtual network (preview)

As you may know, Microsoft has released a solution allowing you to remotely connect with RDP or SSH to your virtual machines running on Azure without being obliged to have a public IP (and corresponding ports opened) called Azure Bastion (see https://t.co/UBOCpnMD2k) Well, until know, if you had multiple Vnets, you had to deploy Bastion

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Office 365 – You can enable a new feature to help you manage your Office 365 client (preview)

A new feature is now available in preview to help you manage and service your Office 365 clients. This feature is going to give you more insights about your clients and better manage servicing and updates. The feature includes the following capabilities: Office Apps & Add-in Inventory Security Currency report Servicing Profile To enable it,

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Azure – You can now customize the endpoint protection recommendation in ASC

As you know, Azure Security Center (ASC) is your one stop shop helping you maintain and improve your secure posture in Azure (including your on-premises workloads too if onboarded). As you also know, ASC provides a recommendation (and report) for ensuring your virtual machines have an endpoint protection solution installed and healthy. This recommendation is

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Azure – Automatically block IP’s in Network Security Group when brute force attack is detected

As you know Azure Security Center is your one stop shop to help you stay on top of your security posture for your resources hosted in Azure. As there is more and more resources hosted on cloud services, security and protection against attack is more important than ever. As you know you can protect your

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Azure AD – Conditional Access policies now applied to all client application by default

By now, you should already know the Conditional Access feature provided with Azure AD, helping you defining conditions to authorize access to applications/resources – like requesting multi factor authentication when outside of the corporate network. You should also know that legacy authentication endpoints (like SMTP, POP or IMAP) should be blocked. Well, an important update

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Office 365 – Updated retirement date for TLS 1.0/1.1

As you may be aware, Microsoft is on the move to deprecate older TLS versions (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1) and make the switch to TLS 1.2. It has been announced last year (July 2019), retirement date for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 was initially scheduled for June 2020 but with the unprecedent situation it

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Intune – You can now get endpoint analytics to help you identify performance and health issues (preview)

As you know, troubleshooting endpoint performance or issues is not an easy task, especially when devices are now more frequently outside of the corporate network. To try simplify this task, Microsoft is introducing a new capability to Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager to provide analytics from endpoints to administrators. With the first release of Endpoint Analytics, you

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