When all holds and retention policies are removed from an inactive mailbox, it becomes soft-deleted and remains in Exchange for a period of time to allow for recovery before permanent deletion. Based on customer feedback, and to maintain consistency with other solutions, Microsoft will be changing this period to 30 days (from current 183 days). … […]
With the deployment of the Tenant Allow/Block List, as being the single source of truth for Tenant Allows, other mechanisms for Tenant Allows are being removed. This will give SecOps teams one place to manage all Tenant Allows. Today, “DoNotRewrite” list is used to Skip wrapping URLs Detonation(SONAR) Verdicts. The intended purpose of “DoNotRewrite” is … […]
Please review the blog post: Apply sensitivity labels to PDFs created with Office apps for additional details. Coming soon to public preview, Microsoft is introducing the ability to maintain label and protection for PDF files created from Microsoft Office apps. When this will happen: Public preview: rollout will begin in late June and is expected to … […]
Currently the AAD “Security Reader” role can manage Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps alerts, however, it can only view alerts from all other security workloads. The AAD “Security Reader” role update will now be aligned with AAD role definition to provide clarity and prevent confusion of the same role use. When this will happen: As … […]
Given feedback from customer on the need for an additional time to triage the emails or files that were quarantined as result of potential malware, Microsoft is increasing the retention period from 15 days to 30 days. When this will happen Standard Release: will begin rolling this out by end of July and expect to … […]
Malware hashes available for SharePoint and OneDrive (Preview)In addition to file hashes available for malware detected in non-Microsoft storage apps, now new malware detection alerts will provide hashes for malware detected in SharePoint and OneDrive. For more information, see Malware detection. SaaS Security Posture Management capabilities for Salesforce and ServiceNowSecurity posture assessments are available for Salesforce … […]
Microsoft has begun the rollout of security defaults to existing customers who haven’t yet rolled out security defaults or Azure AD Conditional Access. Microsoft introduced security defaults in October 2019 for new tenants, ensuring that new customers would be created and maintained with basic security hygiene in place – especially MFA and modern auth requirements – regardless … […]
The April 13, Microsoft announced general availability of differentiated protection for priority accounts, people like executives, leaders, managers, or other users who have access to sensitive, proprietary, or high priority information. With this release, users tagged as priority accounts will receive a higher level of protection against threats. Licences The Priority account protection feature is … […]
Improvements in malware detection for non-Microsoft storage appsDefender for Cloud Apps has introduced major improvements in the non-Microsoft storage apps detection mechanism. This will reduce the number of false positive alerts. Read More
Support for Rome and San Diego ServiceNow versionsThe Defender for Cloud Apps connector for ServiceNow now supports Rome and San Diego versions of ServiceNow. With this update, you can protect the latest versions of ServiceNow using Defender for Cloud Apps. For more information, see Connect ServiceNow to Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. Read More
