Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection: Skill up to deliver innovative security solutions

by Contributed | Oct 24, 2022 | Technology

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As part of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, explore the solutions that Microsoft Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection provides to help keep your organization’s data protected. Use the resources on Microsoft Learn to discover methods of supporting data security within your organization, whether you’re a functional consultant, a business user, a data analyst, or a developer. Learn how Fraud Protection helps safeguard customer accounts and build customer trust. Sandra Feinberg, Microsoft Principal Program Manager, offers insight on the subject. She observes that any enterprise using a Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection solution should consider that its high-quality data can be used not only to thwart fraud but also to make good decisions about customers while decreasing false positives. As she explains, “It’s not just about stopping bad transactions, but it’s uplifting those good transactions.” 

What is Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection?  

Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection helps you know your customers, decrease fraud costs, and improve the customer experience. Adaptive AI is an exciting technology that Fraud Prevention uses to learn fraud patterns as they continuously evolve and to prevent payment and account-creation fraud. For example, who is making the purchase? Is it a person? Sandra notes that businesses use this technology to help protect their accounts, saying, “Adaptive AI learns and adapts to patterns of legitimate and fraudulent account activities.” Importantly, she also points out, “Fraud protection is not just about knowing who the bad guys are, it’s about using the data to know who the good guys are, as well.”  

To get an in-depth look at the innovative and advanced capabilities that Fraud Protection uses to help safeguard your data, explore the recently updated documentation, starting with Overview of Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection. For a deeper dive into Fraud Protection, work through these modules on Microsoft Learn: 

• Generate a loss prevention report in Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection 


• Implement device fingerprinting in Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection 


• Call real-time APIs for Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection 


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If your organization already uses Dynamics 365 Commerce to deliver unified buying experiences for customers, the good news is that it’s easily integrated with Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection. Additionally, DFP is purpose built for Enterprise Retail, Gaming, Financial Institutions and Payment Service Providers. We are focused on building up our retail customer base to scale into new geographies. 

To learn more about these integrations, read Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection integration with Dynamics 365 Commerce.  

Explore a collection to discover more cybersecurity content 

The documentation and other resources, such as learning paths and modules, on Microsoft Learn are helpful for gaining a basic understanding of Fraud Protection and other security offerings. Check out the Cybersecurity Awareness: Fraud Protection collection, which offers a variety of articles and training opportunities that can help you and your team learn about Fraud Protection capabilities.  

Earn a Microsoft Certification  

If Fraud Prevention is part of your Dynamics 365 toolkit, you can explore many pathways for validating your technical skills and earning recognition with globally recognized, industry-endorsed Microsoft Certifications. If you’re a seasoned data analyst, functional consultant, or solution architect, or if you work for a Microsoft Partner in one of these roles, a certification can help you advance in your career and build customer trust. 

Keep building your Fraud Protection knowledge  

To help keep your organization and customers secure, Sandra reiterates, “It’s really important to understand fraud and payments.” She recommends taking a Fraud 101 class, saying, “The broad Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection customer acquisition team will do those classes for our account teams.”  

To learn more, discover blog posts, videos, events, and webinars—plus connect with peers and experts—join the Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection community.

MS Learn module: Create dashboards in Azure Data Explorer

by Contributed | Oct 23, 2022 | Technology

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Dashboards tell a story through visualizations, and are an excellent way to view your data and see all of your most important insights at a glance. Azure Data Explorer dashboards in the web UI natively support the Kusto Query Language over data hosted in Azure Data Explorer. These dashboards will help you progress quickly from raw data to shared insights.

In the new module, you will create a dashboard from a query in Azure Data Explorer web UI. Add new tiles. Create dashboard parameters, and cross-filters for the parameters.

Create dashboards in Azure Data Explorer

More ADX MS Learn modules: 

1. MS Learn: Introduction to Azure Data Explorer , 


2. MS Learn: Write your first query with Kusto Query Language


3. MS Learn: Gain insights from your data by using Kusto Query Language


4. MS Learn: Characterize an unfamiliar dataset with Azure Data Explorer – Training | Microsoft Learn


5. MS Learn: Create dashboards in Azure Data Explorer – Training | Microsoft Learn

Microsoft is headed to VMware Explore 2022 in Barcelona

by Contributed | Oct 21, 2022 | Technology

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After seeing everyone in person at the San Francisco VMware Explore event, we are even more excited for Barcelona! If you want to know about Azure, the work we are doing with VMware, or just have a great conversation, we’d love to talk to you so stop by our booth! We will even have some cool stickers too.

This year we will have a bunch of sessions with Microsoft employees on stage, so if you’re building out your schedule check them out:

Microsoft Keynote: Transform your VMware Workloads with Microsoft Azure

Speaker:  Jeff Woolsey, Principal PM Manager, Microsoft

Date/Time:  Wednesday, November 9 @ 9:00 – 10:00 CET

Jeff will share how customers can transform their on-prem VMware environments using Microsoft Azure. Keynote attendees will learn how to:

• Address end of support for vSphere, Windows Server, and SQL Server


• Use familiar VMware skills to migrate or extend your VMware environment to the cloud, including hybrid cloud options with Azure VMware Solution and Azure Arc


• Modernize hybrid work with Azure Virtual Desktop and Horizon Cloud 

In addition, here are some other Microsoft Azure-related sessions that we highly recommend for learning more about Azure + VMware:

Released: Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1 Preview 1

by Contributed | Oct 21, 2022 | Technology

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Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1 Preview 1 has been released. This release contains improvements and updates to the Microsoft.Data.SqlClient data provider for SQL Server.

Our plan is to provide GA releases twice a year with two or three preview releases in between. This cadence should provide time for feedback and allow us to deliver features and fixes in a timely manner. This third 5.0 preview includes fixes and changes over the previous preview release.

Fixed

• Fixed ReadAsync() behavior to register Cancellation token action before streaming results. #1781


• Fixed NullReferenceException when assigning null to SqlConnectionStringBuilder.Encrypt. #1778


• Fixed missing HostNameInCertificate property in .NET Framework Reference Project. #1776


• Fixed async deadlock issue when sending attention fails due to network failure. #1766


• Fixed failed connection requests in ConnectionPool in case of PoolBlock. #1768


• Fixed hang on infinite timeout and managed SNI. #1742


• Fixed Default UTF8 collation conflict. #1739

Changed

• Updated Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI (.NET Framework dependency) and Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SNI.runtime (.NET Core/Standard dependency) version to 5.1.0-preview1.22278.1. #1787 which includes TLS 1.3 Support and fix for AppDomain crash in issue #1418


• Changed the SqlConnectionEncryptOption string parser to public. #1771


• Converted ExecuteNonQueryAsync to use async context object. #1692


• Code health improvements #1604 #1598 #1595 #1443

Known issues

• When using Encrypt=Strict with TLS v1.3, the TLS handshake occurs twice on initial connection on .NET Framework due to a timeout during the TLS handshake and a retry helper re-establishes the connection; however, on .NET Core, it will throw a System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (258): The wait operation timed out. and is being investigated. If you’re using Microsoft.Data.SqlClient with .NET Core on Windows 11, you will need to enable the managed SNI on Windows context switch using following statement AppContext.SetSwitch(“Switch.Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.UseManagedNetworkingOnWindows”, true); to use TLS v1.3 or disabling TLS 1.3 from the registry by assigning 0 to the following HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlSecurityProvidersSCHANNELProtocolsTLS 1.3ClientEnabled registry key and it’ll use TLS v1.2 for the connection. This will be fixed in a future release.

For the full list of changes in Microsoft.Data.SqlClient 5.1 Preview 1, please see the Release Notes.

To try out the new package, add a NuGet reference to Microsoft.Data.SqlClient in your application and pick the 5.1 preview 1 version.

We appreciate the time and effort you spend checking out our previews. It makes the final product that much better. If you encounter any issues or have any feedback, head over to the SqlClient GitHub repository and submit an issue.

David Engel