Yesterday, Microsoft announced the first Update for ATA that is rolling through Windows Update. You can find the KB details here Symptoms After you run Microsoft Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) v1.6 for several weeks, the ATA console may display many unexpected suspicious activities of type “Suspicion of identity theft based on abnormal behavior”. If notification […]
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This morning, I went to logon to my Azure AD MyApps portal for a demo and was greeting with a prompt for a new preview experience! The normal link redirects to: https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/applications/default.aspx You can see that the preview link now shows: https://account.activedirectory.windowsazure.com/r/#/applications Let’s have a look! Loving the interface and responsive design and search under […]
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Back in May, Microsoft announced some new features coming to Intune. One of which was the ability to provide the ability to extend the MAM App PIN length from the standard (and only!) 4 characters. I have had many customers ask me about this, especially for providing more security than just the standard 4. Microsoft […]
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Last week, Microsoft announced Advanced Threat Analytics 1.6. In fact, I even wrote a blog on how to upgrade to it! Today, we’ll walk through installing the new Lightweight gateway. In the past, Microsoft required that you deploy a full ATA Gateway, which requires a dedicated server as well as port-mirroring setup to that Gateway […]
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Last week, Microsoft announced the latest update to Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) to version 1.6. This adds some notable enhancements, such as: New detections such as Pass-The-Hash and Bruteforce based on unusual protocol behavior Elevation of privileges Reconnaissance via Net Session enumeration Compromised credentials via malicious DPAPI Request Compromised credentials via malicious Replication Requests New […]
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After perusing the Azure Portal today in the Intune blade, I came across some fun new functions! New MAM Apps! Outlook Groups added to iOS & Android MAM policies App Reporting by User You can now report on apps on a per-user basis! Line-of-Business Apps Coming soon! 🙂 You can now MAM-only enable your own […]
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Back in February, Outlook was added to the list of MAM-only app management with Intune. As of this week a few more apps have been added: OneNote (iOS) Managed Browser (iOS & Android) Remote Desktop (iOS & Android) I first talked about the concept of managing Office mobile apps without need for enrollment. This was […]
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Not many people have heard of Microsoft’s new Enterprise Data Protection (EDP) feature that is coming with Windows 10 later this year. EDP has been lit up in the Windows 10 insider build since January and the policies have been around in Intune Standalone for about the same amount of time. Today we’re going to […]
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Seems Microsoft is on a security tirade lately! Probably has nothing to do with the RSA Conference 🙂 Last week Microsoft made some MAJOR security enhancement announcements, feel free to read many of them below. http://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/02/25/enterprise-security-for-our-mobile-first-cloud-first-world-2/ http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/25/microsoft-begins-to-make-advances-on-nadellas-broad-security-vision/ https://blogs.office.com/2016/02/25/new-security-management-and-transparency-capabilities-coming-to-office-365 https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/systemcenter/2016/02/25/new-security-capabilities-in-operations-management-suite/ https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/ad/2016/02/24/identity-and-security-innovations-for-your-enterprise/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-security-center-adds-new-partners-detections-and-more/ http://blog.fortinet.com/post/microsoft-azure-security-center-fortinet-scaling-security-securing-the-cloud Today, they announced the public preview of Azure AD IDP. To access the […]
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