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As Microsoft closed out it’s fiscal year in June it went out with a bang with amount of security & compliance related news and announcements.  As with every month’s newsletter, the articles that italicized should be priority reading. 

 

General News

Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3d: Zen and the art of threat hunting

Exploiting a crisis: How cybercriminals behaved during the outbreak

Blue teams helping red teams: A tale of a process crash, PowerShell, and the MITRE ATT&CK evaluation

A deeper dive into the APT29 MITRE ATT&CK evaluation

11 security tips to help stay safe in the COVID-19 era

Remote Working: Fewer people working on-premises doesn’t mean less risk to their identities

Misconfigured Kubeflow workloads are a security risk

Barracuda and Microsoft: Removing security barriers to faster public cloud adoption

Zero Trust—Part 1: Networking

Stay ahead of multi-cloud attacks with Azure Security Center

Modernizing the security operations center to better secure a remote workforce

CISO Stressbusters: Post #2: 4 tips for getting the first 6 months right as a new CISO

Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3d: Zen and the art of threat hunting

The psychology of social engineering—the “soft” side of cybercrime

 

Azure Security & Compliance News

What’s New: Azure Sentinel Threat Hunting Enhancements

Azure Sentinel Ninja Training: The June 2020 update

Moving to cloud-based SIEM: the cost advantage

Sending enriched Azure Sentinel alerts to 3rd party SIEM and Ticketing Systems

Hunting for anomalous sessions in your data with Azure Sentinel

How do I start improving my security posture in the cloud?

How Secure Score affects your governance

Automating the onboarding on-premises, AWS and GCP VMs on Sentinel with Azure Arc

Stay ahead of attacks with Azure Security Center

Feeling fatigued? Cloud-based SIEM relieves security team burnout

Microsoft acquires CyberX to accelerate and secure customers’ IoT deployments

Using Azure Lighthouse and Azure Sentinel to Investigate Attacks Across Multiple Tenants

Move Your Azure Sentinel Logs to Long-Term Storage with Ease

What’s New: Livestream for Azure Sentinel is now released for General Availability

Azure Security Center new security alerts experience

Protecting your GitHub assets with Azure Sentinel

Deliver a Security Score weekly briefing

Sending alerts enriched with supporting events from Azure Sentinel to 3rd party SIEMs

Azure Files enhances data protection capabilities

How to respond to potential Malware uploaded to Azure Storage Blob

Azure Security Center Auto-connect to Sentinel

Azure Sentinel Agent: Collecting from servers and workstations, on-prem and in the cloud

Continuously Export Azure Security Center Alerts and Recommendations via Policy

Security Controls in ASC: Remediate Vulnerabilities

 

Microsoft 365 Security (All Up News)

Best security, compliance, and privacy practices for the rapid deployment of publicly facing Microsoft Power Apps intake forms

Improving defenses against Exchange server compromise

Setting up a secure collaboration environment

Setting up a secure collaboration environment – Security Admin POV

Setting up a secure collaboration environment – End user point of view

Webinar: Empower your remote workforce with data security in OneDrive and SharePoint

 

M365 Identity & Data Protection (Azure AD, Intune, AIP, MCAS)

General Availability: Microsoft Information Protection sensitivity labels in Teams/SharePoint sites

Announcing general availability of Microsoft Information Protection in Power BI

Inside Identity: Moving to a passwordless world with the FIDO Alliance

How-to: Password-less FIDO2 Security Key Sign-in to Windows 10 HAADJ Devices

Azure AD Mailbag: Frequent questions about using device-based Conditional Access for remote work

“Why are my users not prompted for MFA as expected?”

Give your HR and IT teams more reasons to cheer with improved integration between Workday & Azure AD

MCAS:  Malware detection in real-time

Announcing the Android Enterprise security configuration framework

Protect and Secure Cloud-based Applications using Azure MFA

Proactively reduce lateral movement path risk to your organization with Azure ATP

Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Creating a WDAV Policy

Upcoming Exchange Online Device Access and Conditional Access changes with Outlook mobile

Building trust into digital experiences with decentralized identities (DID)

Role-based Access Control in Intune – Identifying Tenant-wide and Delegated Configurations

 

M365 Threat Protection (Office ATP, Windows Defender ATP, Azure ATP/ATA)

The science behind Microsoft Threat Protection: Attack modeling for finding and stopping evasive ransomware

Inside Microsoft Threat Protection: Mapping attack chains from cloud to endpoint

Microsoft Defender ATP has a new UEFI scanner

Say hello to the new alert page in Microsoft Defender ATP

Web shell threat hunting with Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Threat Protection

Configuring Microsoft Defender Antivirus for non-persistent VDI machines

Webinar: How to get started with Microsoft Defender ATP

Announcing Microsoft Defender ATP for Android

Microsoft Defender ATP for Linux is now generally available!

How to stream Microsoft Defender ATP hunting logs in Azure Data Explorer

Migrate the old Power BI App to Microsoft Defender ATP Power BI templates!

 

M365 Compliance & Governance

What’s new in Microsoft 365 Compliance and Risk Management

Exact Data Match Upcoming News

Records Management Webinar

Top 4 tips to protect your remote workforce with data compliance in OneDrive

Getting started with Insider Risk Management

eDiscovery for Teams Webinar

 

Regards,

 

Jeremy Windmiller | Enterprise Security Architect, CISSP, CEH, ITIL | Microsoft – Healthcare

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