Security

Previously known as Windows Defender Application Control (WDAC), Microsoft Defender Application Control (MDAC) is now even more accessible to organizations through the removal of the Windows 10 Enterprise / Education requirement. Now, organizations using Windows 10 and Windows 11 Professional are able to leverage the feature to gain greater insight and control of their Windows…

  In this article, I’m going to show you how to audit security in Microsoft 365 with Access Reviews in Azure Active Directory (AAD). I’ll show you how to set up and run Access Reviews from the Azure management portal and using the Microsoft Graph and PowerShell. Azure Active Directory enables core collaboration with users…

Microsoft has issued an out-of-band emergency update fix to patch an authentication issue that was caused by the November 9th cumulative update for Windows Server. The bug affects Windows Server 2008 SP2 through to Windows Server 2019. The November 9th Patch Tuesday cumulative update (CU) for Windows Server causes a problem that can cause authentication…

Patch Tuesday in November 2021 sees Microsoft release patches to address 55 CVEs, including fixes for 6 zero-day bugs. There are updates for products including Windows, Windows Server, Office, Exchange Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Dynamics, Hyper-V, and Azure Real Time Operating System (RTOS), which is ThreadX RTOS, an embedded real-time operating system that Microsoft purchased…

In this article, I’m going to describe how to use Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Analytics to improve security in your organization. Over three Petri articles, we’ve dived into what Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is, how you can migrate to it, and how it should be configured. Part 1: Understanding Microsoft Defender for Endpoint and…

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE) is much more than a traditional antivirus service. Now being offered in Plan 1 and Plan 2, the full offering you get with Plan 2 not only provides antivirus capabilities but also extended detection and response, attack surface reduction rules to harden the OS against common threat mechanisms, and threat…

With Microsoft Intune Service Release 2109, released the week of 27th September 2021, there have been some significant improvements in how targeting for App Protection Policies can be achieved. These new capabilities come alongside an array of new Intune capabilities available in this new update. What are Microsoft Intune App Protection Policies? According to Microsoft,…

This month’s Patch Tuesday for includes a cumulative update (CU) for Windows 11, which was made generally available October 4th. In total Microsoft released patches addressing 71 CVEs in Windows, Edge, Exchange Server, .NET Core, SharePoint Server, and many other products. Two of the CVEs patched this month are rated Critical, and 68 Important. And…

Sharing content with users external to your organization and managing guest user access in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Teams can be confusing to understand and difficult to manage. If you would like to know more about this important aspect of cloud security, download this free eBook. AvePoint dives into policy considerations you need to make…

Petri’s Endpoint Management 1-day virtual conference is now available to view on demand. At the end of last month, Petri hosted a full free day of learning, covering topics like how to manage devices using Microsoft Intune, how to deploy new hardware with Windows Autopilot, and managing security updates with Windows Update. The management of…