CISA Issues Emergency Directive on Pulse Connect Secure

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CISA has issued Emergency Directive (ED) 21-03, as well as Alert AA21-110A, to address the exploitation of vulnerabilities affecting Pulse Connect Secure (PCS) software. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to gain persistent system access and take control of the enterprise network operating the vulnerable PCS device. These vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild. 

Specifically, ED 21-03 directs federal departments and agencies to run the Pulse Connect Secure Integrity Tool on all instances of PCS virtual and hardware appliances to determine whether any PCS files have been maliciously modified or added.  

Although ED 21-03 applies to Federal Civilian Executive Branch departments and agencies, CISA strongly recommends state and local governments, the private sector, and others to run the Pulse Connect Secure Integrity Tool and review ED 21-03: Mitigate Pulse Connect Secure Product Vulnerabilities for additional mitigation recommendations. 
 

Experiencing Data Access Issue in Azure portal for Log Analytics – 04/20 – Investigating

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Initial Update: Tuesday, 20 April 2021 22:05 UTC

We are aware of issues within Log Analytics and are actively investigating. Some customers may experience data access issue and delayed or missed Log Search Alerts in West Europe Region.
  • Work Around: <none or details>
  • Next Update: Before 04/21 02:30 UTC
We are working hard to resolve this issue and apologize for any inconvenience.
-Jayadev

Experiencing Data Access Issue in Azure portal for Log Analytics – 04/20 – Investigating

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Initial Update: Tuesday, 20 April 2021 22:02 UTC

We are aware of issues within Log Analytics and are actively investigating. Some customers may experience delayed or missed Log Search Alerts in East US2 region.
  • Work Around: None
  • Next Update: Before 04/21 01:30 UTC
We are working hard to resolve this issue and apologize for any inconvenience.
-Saika

New Yammer Training Videos & Resources

New Yammer Training Videos & Resources

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A lot has changed in Yammer over the past year and we continue to see new growth, new communities, and new users getting started with Yammer. With this in mind, we are excited to share training videos that you can use to share within your own organization. 


  


Use these training videos to build momentum in your Yammer communities.  


 


 


Videos for everyone…  


 


Microsoft Yammer conversations and discovery


 


In this video you’ll learn how to…  



  • Discover and join new communities  

  • Understand what’s in your Yammer feed  

  • Favorite communities for quick access 

  • Start a conversation, ask a question, post a poll, react and @mention a co-worker. 

  • Share conversations  

  • Mark best answer to a question you’ve asked 

  • Search Yammer for previous conversations 


 


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Microsoft Yammer notifications and announcements 


 


In this video you’ll learn how to…  



  • Stay on top of your notifications in Yammer 

  • Receive announcements and react and reply directly in Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Yammer 

  • Adjust your email notification settings in Yammer  



 


Resource: What’s new in Yammer 


Resource: End User Training Guide 


 


 


 


 


Training for Yammer community admins…  


 


Microsoft Yammer communities overview 


 


In this video you’ll learn how to … 



  • create and brand a community 

  • Post an announcement  

  • Moderate conversations including how to feature a conversation, pin conversation, close the conversation, and how to mark best answer to a question.  

  • Host a virtual event  

  • Evaluate your community by looking at the analytics and insights for the conversations, questions, and events.
      

     



Resource: Community Management for Yammer  


Resource: Build Yammer Communities 


Related blog post: How to create a sustainable Yammer community  


 


 


 


Training for Yammer network Admins…  


 


Microsoft Yammer network admin highlights 


 


In this video you’ll learn how to…  



  • Set up usage policy 

  • Add your company’s logo to the emails 

  • Set up Report Conversations process 

  • Mute a community from the feed 

  • Configure and customize All Company branding and naming 

  • Pin Yammer Communities App to Microsoft Teams  


 


More Support: Admin key concepts  


 


 


 


 


Find more Yammer resources  


Yammer Support & Help  


Yammer Adoption & Resources  


Yammer Online Training 


 


 


 

CISA Releases Alert on Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities

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CISA is aware of ongoing exploitation of Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure vulnerabilities compromising U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private sector organizations.

In response, CISA has released Alert AA21-110A: Exploitation of Pulse Connect Secure Vulnerabilities to offer technical details regarding this activity. Ivanti has provided a mitigation and is developing a patch.

CISA strongly encourages organizations using Ivanti Pulse Connect Secure appliances to follow the guidance in Alert AA21-110A, which includes:

For additional information regarding this ongoing exploitation, see the FireEye blog post: Check Your Pulse: Suspected APT Actors Leverage Authentication Bypass Techniques and Pulse Secure Zero-Day.