Compliance

Microsoft has announced some improvements coming to the preset security policies in Defender for Office 365 solution this summer. These policy changes should help IT admins use Microsoft’s recommended settings. According to Microsoft, the preset security policies enable organizations to apply all recommended settings to Office 365 users. The list includes Strict protection, Standard protection,…

Microsoft has announced that its Office mobile apps now support co-authoring documents encrypted with sensitivity labels. This capability has been available on the Office desktop and web clients for a while now, and it’s finally making its way to the iOS and Android versions of the app. With the new co-authoring feature, the Microsoft Office…

In this guide, we’re going to explain how IT admins can use adaptive scopes to make retention policies for Microsoft 365 more dynamic. Microsoft 365 provides retention capabilities to manage the data for your organization out of the box. These features allow you as an organization to control how long content is retained and then…

As more employees shift to working remotely, it is more important than ever that organizations prioritize protecting their business-critical and sensitive data across apps, endpoints, and cloud services. Employees will be accessing, sharing, creating, and storing data in new ways than before, meaning the need to make sure this is protected and compliant is more…

I work with many legal and regulatory organizations that require no retention period for Microsoft Teams channels and their users’ chats. Other industries dictate that the information must be retained for 7 years while other customers don’t want to let go of any information and retain their chats indefinitely. This blog post will assist you…

To protect data at rest on your Intune-managed Windows devices, BitLocker disk encryption can be applied automatically using the BitLocker CSP.  If you are deploying devices with Autopilot, this will also allow you to encrypt them at the time of deployment.  Existing devices will be encrypted as soon as the device checks in with Intune…

Activity Explorer Highlights Label Activities In June 2020, I covered Microsoft’s “Know Your Data” initiative, essentially the introduction of a bunch of new features in the Data classification section of the Microsoft 365 compliance center. Requiring Office 365 E5 or Microsoft 365 E5 (or E5 compliance) licenses, Microsoft targets this functionality at large enterprises who…

LetsEncrypt has changed the face of SSL certification issuance. Making it easy for website developers to freely and easily issue an SSL certificate, LetsEncrypt has opened the floodgate to properly securing every website.

UEBA can identify unusual activity and help SOC teams identify if there is a compromised entity or a malicious insider.

Microsoft announced in the message center this week that resource-specific content will roll-out to tenants, beginning mid-August. This opens the door for installing richer applications than you would have previously considered approving and allows self-service installation by Team owners. Teams applications based on the Graph API to read and write content within a Team, such…