If you have been following along at home you will know this was a big month for Microsoft Security as Azure Sentinel (only cloud native SIEM) went GA. So, as you can imagine there are several articles below on Sentinel. As with every newsletter, I have italicized the articles that should be of primary focus for consumption. For awareness, in addition to the monthly newsletter, I am publishing a weekly version that can be accessed here. Make sure to bookmark this link to get the great content below on a weekly basis.
General News
- Operational resilience begins with your commitment to and investment in cyber resilience
- Why banks are adopting a modern approach to cybersecurity—the Zero Trust model
- Overview of the Marsh-Microsoft 2019 Global Cyber Risk Perception survey results
- MSRC – September 2019 Security Updates
- MSRC: Acquiring a VHD to Investigate
- Minutes and Motivation Matters
- Solve the IoT security paradox to unleash innovation
- Using Threat Intelligence in your Jupyter Notebooks
Azure Security & Compliance News
- Steps to run PCE (Azure Policy Compliance Evaluator)
- Enhanced security and resiliency with your Azure Data Explorer cluster
- Azure Firewall updates—September 2019
- Managing rules with adaptive application controls in Azure Security Center has improved
- Preparing towards Azure Sentinel’s GA
- Microsoft Taste of Premier Video Series Reviews Azure Sentinel (Video)
- Azure Sentinel: Webinar Recordings
- Azure Security Center Webinar: Secure Score
- Azure Security Expert Series Empower Your Security Operations with Azure Sentinel
- Azure Sentinel—the cloud-native SIEM that empowers defenders is now generally available
- Avanade leads in threat detection and security automation with Azure Sentinel
- IT company automates security, adds value to offerings for midsize customers with Azure Sentinel
M365 Security All Up News
- PSA (Please Read): Improving Security – Together
- Improve your Cloud Security posture with Microsoft Secure Score
- Security baseline for Office 365 ProPlus (v1908, Sept 2019) – FINAL
- New extended support dates for MDOP (including MBAM) tools
- Security Policy Advisor for Office 365 ProPlus is now Generally Available!
- Rolling out S/MIME support in Outlook for iOS begins
- 7 apps you can build using the Microsoft Graph Security API!
- Updates to SharePoint security, administration, and migration
M365 Identity & Data Protection (Azure AD, Intune, AIP, MCAS)
- Action Required: Evaluate and update Conditional Access policies in preparation for iPadOS launch
- Azure Active Directory Global Reader role
- Maximizing your Identity Security Posture with Azure Advanced Threat Protection
- Presenting the new Unfamiliar Sign-in Properties
- MCAS AIP: How to control access to your sensitive information from outside your organization?
- Manage emergency access accounts in Azure AD
- Sensitivity labeling now built into Office apps for Windows to help protect sensitive information
- How you can use the AIP Unified Labeling client TODAY
- Unified labeling AIP scanner preview brings scaling out and more!
- Search groups and members (preview) in Azure Active Directory
- How Pingboard secures data and boosts competitive value with Azure AD
- What’s new in Azure Active Directory? – Aug 2019
- One Identity across Yammer and Office
- Announcing General Availability for Azure Active Directory based access control for Service Bus
- Adobe Acrobat chooses Microsoft 365 for built-in app protection
- New Pre-Integrated Apps Available in Azure AD | Sep 2019
- How to use PolyBase by authenticating via AAD pass-through
- Azure AD expands integration with SAP Identity Authentication Service
- Azure Information Protection Documentation Update for September 2019
- Azure AD + F5—helping you secure all your applications
- Want to learn how to deploy and configure Azure Advanced Threat Protection?
M365 Threat Protection (Office ATP, Windows Defender ATP, Azure ATP/ATA)
- Deep learning rises: new methods for detecting malicious PowerShell scripts
- Automated incident response in Office 365 ATP now generally available
- Microsoft Defender ATP supports custom IOCs for URLs, IP addresses, and domains
- Windows Defender tamper protection management in Microsoft Intune
- Microsoft Defender ATP EDR support for Windows Server 2008 R2 now generally available
- Enhanced visibility into web threats with Microsoft Defender ATP
- Advanced hunting updates: USB events, machine-level actions, and schema changes
M365 Compliance & Goverance
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