As Microsoft wraps up its fiscal year this past week here’s the latest newsletter for Microsoft Security. There’s a lot of good content in this edition to be consumed but have called out ones that should be prioritized in italics.
General News
- The evolution of Microsoft Threat Protection, June update
- 5 principles driving a customer-obsessed identity strategy at Microsoft
- Inside the MSRC – Customer-centric incident response
- Inside the MSRC – Anatomy of a SSIRP incident
- Securing the hybrid cloud with Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel
- How to integrate Azure Monitor with SIEM tools (Video)
- Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC Part 2b: Career paths and readiness
- Microsoft Wants More Security Researchers to Hack Into Its Cloud
- Importing Sigma Rules to Azure Sentinel
- MSRC has confirmed an active Linux worm leveraging critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability CVE-2019-10149 in Linux Exim email servers
- How to recover from a security breach
- Ovum recommends Microsoft security to safeguard your hybrid and multi cloud environments
Microsoft 365 Security (All Up News)
- Overview of the all-new Microsoft 365 compliance center
- Secure your journey to the cloud with free DMARC monitoring for Office 365
- Advancing Windows 10 as a passwordless platform
- We have released a security patch for Outlook on Android devices to address a vulnerability
- Microsoft Security Baselines Blog
Identity & Data Protection (Azure AD, Intune, AIP, MCAS)
- Azure AD Mailbag: Conditional Access Q&A – especially read #7
- Achieve Zero Trust with Azure AD conditional access
- Getting Started with Microsoft Cloud App Security Policies
- What’s new in the latest Intune EndPoint Zone 1905 webisode? (Video)
- Develop a risk management strategy for your Azure AD application migration
- Five tips to improve the migration process to Azure Active Directory
- Azure AD Adoption Kits
- Discover Shadow IT across IaaS and PaaS with Microsoft’s CASB
- Intune Adoption Kit
- Microsoft Intune extends ruggedized Android devices support with Zebra
- Better Mobile Threat Defense Integration with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection Now Available
- What is a Primary Refresh Token? Great updated documentation that is recommended reading
- Microsoft Intune security tasks extend Microsoft Defender ATP’s Threat & Vulnerability Management
- AzureAD now supports federated SSO + automated account provisioning with the Oracle Cloud!
- New Pre-Integrated Apps Available in Azure AD
- Asana streamlines user provisioning with Azure AD
- You can now use the Azure AD Identity Protection Risky Users API to retrieve Azure AD users’ risk history, dismiss risky users, & to confirm users as compromised.
Latest Azure AD Stats
Threat Protection (Office ATP, Windows Defender ATP, Azure ATP/ATA)
- Inside out: Get to know the advanced technologies at the core of Microsoft Defender ATP next generation protection
- MDATP Python automation – Automate machine isolation with Python script
- New Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC) features documented for 1903!
- MDATP – The Power of Advanced Hunting – Unleash the hunter in you! (Webinar)
- Windows Server 2008R2 is now supported by MDATP
- Microsoft Defender ATP automation & cloud app discovery now available in previous Windows 10 builds!
- Azure Advanced Threat Protection Webinar Series