As I look back over the past month it was a crazy one with all the announcements during Ignite and those that followed in the subsequent weeks leading up to the US Thanksgiving Holiday. As with past newsletters, I have italicized the articles that you may want to prioritize.
General News
- Gartner names Microsoft a Leader in the 2019 Enterprise Information Archiving Magic Quadrant
- Rethinking cyber learning? Consider gamification
- Introducing more privacy transparency for our commercial cloud customers
- Release of Microsoft Secure Code Analysis toolkit to help you build secure code
- Microsoft Security offerings for US Government customers continue to grow with general availability
- Microsoft works with researchers to detect and protect against new RDP exploits
- CVP Ann Johnson: How to balance compliance and security with limited resources
- Microsoft Intelligent Security Association grows to more than 80 members
- Further enhancing security from Microsoft, not just for Microsoft
- Microsoft Cloud Security solutions provide comprehensive cross-cloud protection
- Zero Trust strategy—what good looks like
- Going in-depth on the Windows 10 random number generation infrastructure
- Insights from one year of tracking a polymorphic threat
Azure Security & Compliance News
- Ingest Office 365 DLP Events into Azure Sentinel
- Managing security with Azure Lighthouse and Azure Arc
- Azure Sentinel correlation rules: Active Lists out; makelist() in, the AAD/AWS correlation example
- Hunting for Capital One Breach TTPs in AWS logs using Azure Sentinel – Part I
- New Data Exposed episode: Discovering, classifying, labeling & protecting SQL data
- Azure Sentinel – Microsoft Ignite 2019 Recap
- The latest security enhancements for Azure Stack Hub
- Threat Protection for Azure Key Vault in Public Preview in North America Regions
- Azure Disk Encryption in more places, and more services offering customer-managed keys
- How to demonstrate the new containers features in Azure Security Center
- Using the new built-in URL detonation in Azure Sentinel
- Try Azure Sentinel Alongside Your Existing SIEM
- Ignite 2019 releases for Azure Security Center and Azure platform security
- Ingesting Office 365 Alerts with Graph Security API
- Upcoming Azure Sentinel training webinars
- Azure Security Center—Advanced integrations with export of recommendations and alerts
- Azure Security Center—Support for custom policies
- Extending Azure Security Center coverage with platform for community and partners
- Vulnerability assessment in Azure Security Center
- Threat Protection for Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Support in Security Center
- Scan container images for vulnerabilities in Azure Security Center
- Additional regulatory compliance standards in Azure Security Center
- Onboard on-prem servers to Security Center from Windows Admin Center
Microsoft 365 Security (All Up News)
- Control PII and Sensitive Data Risk for Self-Service BI using Power BI DataFlows and Azure Data Lake
- Security baseline (FINAL) for Windows 10 v1909 and Windows Server v1909
- Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS
- Limiting sensitive data in notifications
- Understand where your sensitive data is located and intelligently protect it with Microsoft 365
- Modern management and security principles driving our Microsoft Endpoint Manager vision
- ADMIN – Security, Productivity, and Network Enhancements for Microsoft 365 Administrators
- Why Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) & ATP are Necessary for NIST Compliance
M365 Identity & Data Protection (Azure AD, Intune, AIP, MCAS)
- Azure Information Protection Documentation Update for November 2019
- Azure AD entitlement management is now generally available
- Upcoming change to Audit logs in Intune
- Sign-in with Google social IDs is now generally available for Azure AD B2B Collaboration
- The refreshed Azure AD Identity Protection is now generally available
- AIP Document Tracking – Sending Access Denied Notifications to End Users
- Introducing Report-only mode for Conditional Access
- Classifying and Protecting Computer Aided Design with Microsoft Information Protection
- Privacy gets a boost with support for Apple User Enrollment in Microsoft Endpoint Manager
- Microsoft Cloud Security solutions provide comprehensive cross-cloud protection
- Replace passwords with a biometric security key
- Step-by-Step: Managing Users via the Azure Active Directory PowerShell for Graph Module
- Microsoft Cloud App Security news at Ignite 2019
- Microsoft Ignite 2019 – Microsoft Information Protection solutions Partner ecosystem showcase
- Expanding Azure Active Directory support for FIDO2 preview to hybrid environments
- Microsoft Intune brings mobile threat defense to unenrolled BYO devices
- What’s new in Azure Active Directory at Microsoft Ignite 2019
M365 Threat Protection (Office ATP, Windows Defender ATP, Azure ATP/ATA)
- Short & sweet educational videos for Microsoft Defender ATP
- Create custom reports using Microsoft Defender ATP APIs and Power BI
- Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac – EDR in Public Preview
- Reducing risk with new Threat & Vulnerability Management capabilities
- Speed up time to detect and respond to user compromise and limit breach scope with Office 365 ATP
M365 Compliance & Governance
- Ready to get started with Microsoft 365 E5 Compliance? Adopt with intent and quickly get to value
- Manage eDiscovery for Teams – Announcing conversation reconstruction and more
- Leveraging AI and automation to quickly identify and investigate insider risks
- Simplify compliance and reduce risk with Microsoft Compliance Score
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