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Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability affecting iOS 15.2.1 and iPadOS 15.2.1. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Apple security page for iOS 15.2.1 and iPadOS 15.2.1 and apply the necessary updates.
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As digital transformation drives innovation and transforms the way we work, we see business operations and traditional internal processes being disrupted daily. To adapt and scale changes across their business, many organizations are overwhelmed and faced with digitizing thousands of manual checklists, paper forms, documents, and more. The good news is today’s Microsoft solutions make this transition easier than ever before. With Microsoft’s suite of low-code development solutions (e.g., Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, and AI Builder), employees of all skill levels can create and customize business applications and processes. By combining these solutions with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Guides, a mixed reality application that offers step-by-step, hands-free work instructions and collaboration, you can convert your existing 2D manuals into 3D holograms, rather than transferring manually. Once converted, organizations can use Dynamics 365 Guides to provide immersive, on-the-job guidance that will increase efficiency, increase knowledge retention, and enable your organization to adapt at the speed of change.
With Dynamics 365 Guides, authoring instructions is as simple as creating a presentation in Microsoft PowerPoint. Using the Guides PC and HoloLens apps, you create and edit instructions by dragging and dropping 2D and 3D content into your real-world environment to show users how and where to complete tasks. However, converting an existing multi-page manual by copying the information from scratch makes the authoring process feel time-consuming and daunting. This is where Microsoft Power Platform AI Builder comes in. AI Builder empowers anyone to build, train, and publish AI models, enabling you to infuse AI into your regular processes. You can create and train a custom AI model to extract text information from a variety of paper manuals in minutes, or use one of the pre-built models.
Using Power Automate, you save the extracted information to Microsoft Dataverse (an enterprise-grade intelligent scalable data platform that powers business applications like Dynamics 365 Guides). By storing the data in a format readable by Dynamics 365 Guides, users can simply open the Dynamics 365 Guides PC and HoloLens apps and add 3D content on top of the text instructions extracted from existing manuals.
In this blog, we’ll focus on how to use the AI Builder form processing model to extract and convert information and create a guide. Every organization has work instructions that come in different formats, such as checklists for inspections, training documentation, and standard operating procedures. By using the form processing model, you can read and save information from existing documents such as images or PDF files.
When you automate this process, you save valuable time by reviewing, extracting, organizing, and saving the data automatically by using Power Automate and Power Apps.
Creating a guide using a custom AI model and Power Automate requires three simple steps:
For a closer look at each step below, follow along with a team at Toyota Motors North America in this video, at the 2:40 min mark.
Whether creating a single manual or hundreds, AI Builder and Dynamics 365 Guides can transform instructions and training, making your processes easier, smarter, and faster. Seamlessly capture, translate, and extract information to unlock a new way of working and save your teams hours of time.
“Customers have been able to save months of deployment time by using AI Builder and Guides, allowing them to quickly integrate mixed-reality work instructions into their daily workflows without any development expertise. They’re able to update content they already have into 3D holographic instructions for a variety of scenarios, including assembly, changeovers, training, and service and maintenance, resulting in improvements to safety, efficiency, and reduced onboarding time.”Shirley Ho, Senior Designer, Dynamics 365 Guides.
Ready to design a guide using AI Builder, Power Automate, and Dynamics 365 Guides today? Here’s how to get started.
AI Builder in Power Automate
Dynamics 365 Guides
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By Erin Boris, Idan Basre and Yoann Mallet
One of the latest app connectors to be added to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps is for Smartsheet.
As we have in the past for other protected apps, we would like to share a few examples of how to use it to secure your Smartsheet deployment.
As with other apps, connecting Smartsheet to Defender for Cloud Apps allows you to leverage some of the built-in features of your favorite CASB, such as:
Benefit | Description | Policy or template |
Threat and Anomaly Detection | Detect cloud threats, compromised accounts, and malicious insiders | The following built-in Threat detection policies automatically apply when Defender for Cloud Apps is connected to Smartsheet: · Unusual file share activities · Unusual file deletion activities · Unusual administrative activities · Unusual multiple file download activities
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Audit, investigation, and hunting | Use the audit trail of activities for forensic investigations | Leverage Advanced Hunting Queries as part of the Microsoft 365 Defender Portal to audit the use of Smartsheet and create policies |
Let’s start with connecting Smartsheet.
Detailed instructions are available here, and if you prefer our video, check it out below:
The best way to get quick value from Defender for Cloud Apps when protecting Smartsheet, is to use the Advanced Hunting feature in the Microsoft 365 Defender portal.
If you have not used that portal just yet, simply visit http://security.microsoft.com and you will be redirected to it.
Once there browse to advanced hunting. This will enable you to write your own KQL queries to gather relevant information from the Defender for Cloud Apps activity logs.
Here are two relevant examples:
Having a new user invited to Smartsheet with an external email address may be suspicious. In order to detect this, you can leverage the following KQL Query:
CloudAppEvents
| where Application == "Smartsheet"
|extend a=parse_json(RawEventData).additionalDetails
|extend email=a.emailAddress
| where ActionType == "User Accept Invite"
and email !contains "contoso.com"
| project Timestamp,Application, AccountDisplayName, ActionType,email
Below is an example of the result of that query in Advanced Hunting:
This can potentially help you detect any attempt to exfiltrate data or identify a malicious user enabling an external account.
Another option to view all accounts with external email addresses that currently have access to Smartsheet, is from the API connector properties in Defender for Cloud Apps.
A filter can be used to see all external accounts that have accepted an invitation.
When files are sent as an attachment from Smartsheet directly, to an external email address, this can be a sign of data exfiltration.
In order to identify such activities, you can leverage the following KQL Query:
CloudAppEvents
| where Application == "Smartsheet"
|extend a=parse_json(RawEventData).additionalDetails
|extend Recipient=a.recipientEmail
| where ActionType =="Sheet Send As Attachment"
and Recipient !contains "contoso.com"
| project Timestamp,Application, AccountDisplayName, ActionType,Recipient
In addition to detecting these actions, Microsoft 365 Defender also allows you to create your own custom detections, and identify when these occur in near real-time, as described here.
As you can imagine, when using such powerful queries, the sky is the limit! Feel free to share any relevant KQL query you have identified for Smartsheet in the comments below.
Resources:
For more information about the features discussed in this article, please read:
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The two billion frontline workers, which represent 80 percent of the world’s workforce, have weathered risk, exhaustion, and ongoing disruption throughout the pandemic. From shutdowns to new safety protocols to increased workloads and dwindling inventory, the frontline is constantly facing challenges. Today we are releasing a set of technology innovations and partnerships to reduce stress on the frontline and empower the way they work and interact.
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Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Adobe products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.
CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following Adobe Security Bulletins and apply the necessary updates.
Acrobat and Reader APSB22-01
Illustrator APSB22-02
Bridge APSB22-03
InCopy APSB22-04
InDesign APSB22-05
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