General News

• Why a strong IAM strategy is key to your cybersecurity approach – Microsoft Security Blog
• Stop Ransomware digital event demos latest in threat intelligence – Microsoft Security Blog
• After a devastating cyberattack, the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians became one of the world’s most technologically advanced nations | Transform (microsoft.com)
• Implementing a Zero Trust strategy after compromise recovery – Microsoft Security Blog
• Industry Expert Series: What keeps an AppSec CTO up at night? – Microsoft Tech Community
• Empower employees to flag security and regulatory concerns in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Tech Community

Threat Intelligence

• ZINC weaponizing open-source software – Microsoft Security Blog
• Microsoft investigates Iranian attacks against the Albanian government – Microsoft Security Blog
• The art and science behind Microsoft threat hunting: Part 2 – Microsoft Security Blog
• Malicious OAuth applications abuse cloud email services to spread spam – Microsoft Security Blog
• RiskIQ Threat Intelligence Portal

Azure Security & Defender for Cloud News

• Strengthen your security with Policy Analytics for Azure Firewall | Azure Blog and Updates | Microsoft Azure
• How to take secure, on-demand backups on SQL Managed Instance (microsoft.com)
• Delete Passwords: Passwordless Connections for Java Apps to Azure Services – Microsoft Tech Community
• Passwordless Azure for CI/CD, Infrastructure and User Experiences (microsoft.com)
• Why WAF: Driving Technical Excellence in Delivery for your Organization – Microsoft Tech Community
• Automatically allow traffic to Office 365 endpoints on Azure Firewall (microsoft.com)
• Configuring Azure Firewall in Forced Tunneling mode – Microsoft Tech Community
• Scale your Azure Firewall monitoring with Azure Data Explorer – Microsoft Tech Community
• Protect Applications in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Azure WAF – Microsoft Tech Community
• Azure SQL Security: The What, Why & How of Securing your Data with Azure SQL (Ep. 6) | Data Exposed – Microsoft Tech Community
• Release notes for Microsoft Defender for Cloud | Microsoft Docs

Sentinel News

• Anomaly detection on SAP’s Audit Log Using Microsoft Sentinel
• Data Collection Rules Creation Impacting Sentinel UEBA ML Model – Microsoft Tech Community
• Introduction to Machine Learning Notebooks in Microsoft Sentinel
• Microsoft Sentinel customizable machine learning based anomalies is Generally Available
• Create and delete incidents in Microsoft Sentinel – Microsoft Tech Community
• Power of Threat Intelligence sprinkled across Microsoft Sentinel – Microsoft Tech Community
• What’s new in Microsoft Sentinel | Microsoft Docs

Defender for IoT

• IoT Microsoft Sentinel entity page
• What’s new in Microsoft Defender for IoT – Microsoft Defender for IoT | Microsoft Docs

Microsoft 365 Security (All Up News)

• Sysmon v14.1, Coreinfo v3.6, AccessEnum v1.35, BgInfo 4.32, and NotMyFault 4.21 – Microsoft Tech Community
• Customer Guidance for Reported Zero-day Vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange Server – Microsoft Tech Community
• Security baseline for Microsoft Edge v105 – Microsoft Tech Community
• Get Ready for Basic Auth Deprecation in Exchange Online – Microsoft Tech Community
• Ask the Experts: Basic Auth Deprecation in Exchange Online – Microsoft Tech Community
• Securing Mail Flow in Exchange Online – Microsoft Tech Community
• Deep Dive: Increasing Mail Flow Security Posture – Microsoft Tech Community
• Email Protection Basics in Microsoft 365: Spoof and Impersonation – Microsoft Tech Community
• Messaging Security: Deep dive into Exchange Online Protection, Microsoft Defender for Office 365 etc – Microsoft Tech Community
• Exchange Online: Security Inspired by Law – Microsoft Tech Community
• End User Security and Exchange Server – Microsoft Tech Community
• Use Advanced Message Tracking to identify Junk Mail or Spoofing – Microsoft Tech Community
• How to Secure Exchange in an Interconnected World and a Never-Ending Battle Against Evil – Microsoft Tech Community
• New Windows 11 security features are designed for hybrid work – Microsoft Security Blog
• Protecting Mail Flow: A Practical Approach – Microsoft Tech Community
• Windows 11, version 22H2 Security baseline – Microsoft Tech Community
• Forensic artifacts in Office 365 and where to find them – Microsoft Tech Community
• Running Up the Score: Using Secure Score to Quickly Harden Your Exchange & Azure AD Environments – Microsoft Tech Community

Microsoft Entra (Azure AD, Verified Credentials, Permissions Management)

• Defend your users from MFA fatigue attacks – Microsoft Tech Community
• Microsoft named IAM Company of the Year – Microsoft Tech Community
• One step closer to modernization: The MFA Server Migration Utility – Microsoft Tech Community
• Say goodbye to unmanaged Azure AD accounts for B2B collaboration – Microsoft Tech Community
• Preview for verified coupons with Entra Verified ID – Microsoft Tech Community
• Azure AD Connect Health Version History – Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Learn
• Exchange Online Support for Continuous Access Evaluation – Microsoft Tech Community
• Announcing public preview of SSO and passwordless authentication for Azure Virtual Desktop – Microsoft Tech Community
• Secure Exchange Online with Privileged Identity Management – Microsoft Tech Community
• What’s new? Release notes – Azure Active Directory – Microsoft Entra | Microsoft Docs

Device Protection

• Windows Autopatch, How it Works | Automate updates to Windows PCs and devices (microsoft.com)
• What’s new in Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Docs

M365 Defender (Defender for Office, Defender for Endpoint, Defender for Identity, Defender for Cloud Apps)

• Attack Surface Reduction (ASR) Rules Report 2.0 (microsoft.com)
• Improved Device discoverability and classification using Defender for Endpoint and Defender for Identity (microsoft.com)
• The Gone Phishing Tournament tests your team’s security readiness – Microsoft Security Blog
• Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is now available on Android company-owned personally enabled devices
• Tamper protection turned on for all enterprise customers (microsoft.com)
• Protect passwords with enhanced phishing protection | Windows IT Pro Blog (microsoft.com)
• Measure and Change User Phishing Behavior in Four Easy Steps – Microsoft Tech Community
• Discover XDR integrations and services in the New Microsoft 365 Defender Partner Catalog – Microsoft Tech Community
• Top Threat Protection use cases in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
• Introducing the Microsoft Defender for Office 365 Security Operations Guide – Microsoft Tech Community
• Combat Business Email Compromise using Powerful Integrated Workflows with Defender for Office 365 – Microsoft Tech Community
• Ask the Experts: Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Microsoft Tech Community
• Deep Dive into Microsoft Defender for Office 365 – Microsoft Tech Community
• What’s new in Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps | Microsoft Docs
• What’s new in Microsoft 365 Defender | Microsoft Docs

Azure/M365 Compliance & Governance

• Admin guide to auditing and reporting for the AIP Unified Labeling client – Microsoft Tech Community
• How to troubleshoot sensitivity Labels – Part 1 – Microsoft Tech Community
• Protect data in use with Azure Confidential Computing and Intel SGX (microsoft.com)
• Find Verified, Attested, and Certified apps with the Microsoft 365 App Compliance Program – Microsoft Tech Community
• Microsoft Purview and Exchange – Microsoft Tech Community
• Securing Microsoft 365 Data with Service Encryption – Microsoft Tech Community
• FedMake: Data Identification, Classification and Labelling to Meet Federal Compliance Mission (microsoft.com)
• Best Practices for Insider Risk and Communication Compliance in Exchange Online – Microsoft Tech Community
• What’s new in Microsoft Purview risk and compliance solutions – Microsoft Purview (compliance) | Microsoft Docs

Learning

• Microsoft Security Learning