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Security – Microsoft is providing end-user training kit for Office 365 customers

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As more and more working from home occur due to the current Covid-19 situation, Microsoft has partnered with Terranova Security to provide end-user training kit to make them more aware about phishing, malware and privacy to help organizations and individuals be better protected. These trainings (3 videos) will be available for at least 3 months […]

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Azure – The Azure Service Health is now providing security advisories

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As you know, when working with cloud resources, security is a key component. While Microsoft Cloud services (Office 365 and Azure) are quite secure, there is always room for potential issues; especially for the part under the customer responsibilities. To help customers to have a good security posture, Office 365 and Azure have already provided

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Security – You can now allow other applications to capture screen and one-time code from the Authenticator app

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By now, you may know the Microsoft Authenticator app used for multi factor authentication (MFA) to access your Microsoft Account (MSA), Corporate account (Azure AD/Office 365), or even your Facebook or Google account. Well, you can now allow (or disallow – which is the default settings) other applications to capture the Authenticator screen, which include

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Security – Moving to TLS 1.2 is becoming more urgent…

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As you may know, it has been highly recommended for the past few months by Microsoft, Google, Apple and other software vendors to move from TLS 1.0/1..1 to TLS 1.2. Well, this recommendation is becoming more important and you have to urgently ensure you are ready for it as the next version (81) of Google

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Azure – You can now enforce vulnerability assessment to be deployed on virtual machines

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You may already know that Microsoft has introduced a vulnerability assessment capability to Azure – for either SQL Managed Instances, SQL Server or Virtual Machines. Well, this capability needs to be enabled at the resource level by accessing the Security blade of the virtual machine and click on Vulnerability assessment solution should be installed on

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Teams – You can now apply Legal Holds on Teams

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As  ore and more activities occur on Microsoft Teams, the Office 365 Compliance team is now providing ability to put on Legal Hold Teams content (including private channels) on Legal Hold when you need to prevent content tampering. To do so,, logon to your Office 365 Compliance portal (either https://protection.office.com/ or https://compliance.microsoft.com/ [the new Compliance

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Teams – You can now use Sensitivity Labels with Microsoft Teams

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As you may already know, Office 365 services supports sensitivity labels helping your and your organization classifying and protecting your IP’s (intellectual properties) with low productivity impact on your end-users. Using sensitivity labels you can ensure your content is either encrypted, marked (or labelled) and classified accordingly to your compliance requirements, either automatically or by

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Azure – You can now define automation workflow on Azure Security Center (preview)

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By now you should already know Azure Security Center (ASC), the unified one-stop shop security management for Azure, providing you details about your security posture and potential improvements. Well, you can now define automation workflow (in preview) to automate actions based on detection alerts or security center recommendations. Automation workflow uses Logic App to execute

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Azure – You can now request code analysis with Microsoft Secure Code Analysis

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With the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension, you can integrate security analysis tools including Credential Scanner, BinSkim, and others into your Azure DevOps continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Such code review is highly recommended as per the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) recommendations. This feature will increase your developers productivity while ensuring your code is

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Azure – You can now define your own security policies in Azure Security Center

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As you may already know, Azure comes with security center a feature providing unified and centralized security management for Azure called Azure Security Center (ASC). Until now, Azure Security Center was providing only built-in security policies (either from Microsoft or to comply with regulatory standards). Well, good news, you can now define your very own

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