Spring time is here and time for a new Security Newsletter.  Provided below are the updates on the Microsoft Security front that have been announced since RSA.

General News

• The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection, April update
• DART: the Microsoft cybersecurity team we hope you never meet
• Identity Hubs as personal datastores
• Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Workshop Training
• Building the security operations center of tomorrow—better insights with compound detection
• Azure Sentinel: Performing Additional Security Monitoring of High-Value Accounts
• Microsoft The Virtual Security Summit
• Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 2: Organizing people

M365 Security Security (All Up News)

• Microsoft 365 Security Center reaches general availability
• Microsoft 365 compliance center reaches general availability
• Microsoft Compliance Manager Now Integrated with Secure Score
• Mail flow insights (wave 2) will soon be available in O365 Security & Compliance Center
• Exchange Online – Modern Authentication and Conditional Access Updates
• Introducing the security configuration framework: A prioritized guide to hardening Windows 10
• IT Pros can now easily connect to Microsoft Graph Security with the PowerShell Module
• Security baseline (DRAFT) for Windows 10 v1903 and Windows Server v1903

Identity & Data Protection (Azure AD, Intune, AIP, MCAS)

• Announcing general availability for Microsoft Edge mobile app integration with Microsoft Intune
• Protect your sensitive information – wherever it lives or travels
• Discover and protect your sensitive data stored in on premises repositories using AIP scanner (Video)
• Azure AD Password Protection is now generally available!
• Create richer reports with Microsoft Information Protection and Azure AD login data
• Gain insights into your Azure AD resources with Log Analytics Workbooks
• Announcing Security Policy Advisor Preview for Office 365 ProPlus
• Move even more apps to Azure AD: Public preview of group claims
• The top deployment steps to secure your organization with Azure Active Directory
• Microsoft Intune and Azure Log Analytics

Threat Protection (Office ATP, Windows Defender ATP, Azure ATP/ATA)

• Announcing Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac
• Introducing a risk-based approach to threat and vulnerability management
• Microsoft Intune security tasks extend Microsoft Defender ATP’s Threat & Vulnerability Management
• Tamper protection in Microsoft Defender ATP
• Bolster efficiency of security teams with new Automated Incident Response in Office 365 ATP
• Advanced+ award for Microsoft Defender in the latest AV Comparatives Malware Protection Test (March 2019)

Back-porting of #MDATP automation capabilities to Windows 10 build 1709 (RS3) and above is now complete. Capability has just lit up automatically on all machines updated with latest from Windows Update.