Year: 2023

 Plan your day at Microsoft
Secure

Start your day with a keynote from Charlie
Bell, Executive Vice President, Microsoft Security, and Vasu Jakkal, Corporate
Vice President, Security, Compliance & Identity on what an AI-powered
future means for cybersecurity. Stay tuned shortly after for more product
announcements across security, compliance and identity.

Sessions will continue on topics including:

• How do executive leaders make
  big security bets for their businesses?: A discussion with CISOs from industry leading
  organizations.
• How XDR defends against
  ransomware across the entire kill chain: A deep dive into our eXtended Detection and
  Response (XDR) solution
• Balancing privacy and security
  in the cloud: A breakout session on
  privacy’s crucial role in maintaining trust

Plus, our team will provide real-time answers
to your most pressing questions in chat throughout the day. Click here to
save sessions to your schedule and plan your day.

Check
out what’s coming up at Microsoft Secure

Ways
to engage now

Keeping track of all the settings and resources in your tenant can be overwhelming. The Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) recommendations feature helps monitor the status of your tenant so you don’t have to. The Azure AD recommendations feature helps ensure your tenant is in a secure and healthy state while also helping you maximize the value of the features available in Azure AD.

The Azure AD recommendations feature provides you with personalized insights with actionable guidance to:

• Help you identify opportunities to implement best practices for Azure AD-related features.
• Improve the state of your Azure AD tenant.
• Optimize the configurations for your scenarios.

This article gives you an overview of how you can use Azure AD recommendations. As an administrator, you should review your tenant’s Azure AD recommendations, and their associated resources periodically.

This article gives you an overview of how you can use Azure AD recommendations. As an administrator, you should review your tenant’s Azure AD recommendations, and their associated resources periodically

Read more here 

 In
today’s increasingly hybrid workplace, having a strong data protection and
security program requires a more comprehensive approach than implementing
individual technologies. The e-book Keeping
Your Data Secure in a Hybrid Work Environment discusses how
considering all factors—including the people, processes, means of
communication, and technologies—helps you create the strongest strategy to keep
pace with evolving business and security trends. The e-book also covers:

·       
How organization-wide
collaboration is essential for streamlining processes and helping secure data.

·       
Why insider threats,
both intentional and unintentional, remain the leading cause of data breaches
for organizations of all sizes.

Why you should delegate some responsibility for
more powerful data protection to your cloud vendor.

 macOS Configuration Guidance from the mSCP: Draft NIST SP
800-219r1 Available for Comment

NIST requests comments on the initial public draft of Special
Publication (SP) 800-219r1, Automated Secure Configuration
Guidance from the macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP). It
provides resources that system administrators, security professionals, security
policy authors, information security officers, and auditors can leverage to
secure and assess macOS desktop and laptop system security in an automated way.

This publication introduces the mSCP, describes use cases for
leveraging the mSCP content, and introduces a new feature of the mSCP that
allows organizations to customize security rules more easily. The draft also
gives an overview of the resources available on the project’s GitHub site,
which provides practical, actionable recommendations in the form of secure baselines
and associated rules and is continuously updated to support each new release of
macOS.

The public comment period is open
through April 27, 2023. See the publication
details for a copy of the draft and instructions for submitting
comments.

NOTE:
A call for patent claims is included on page ii of this draft. For
additional information, see the Information Technology Laboratory
(ITL) Patent Policy–Inclusion of Patents in ITL Publications.

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 Microsoft is announcing the public preview for cross-tenant synchronization! Now you can easily synchronize users across tenants in an organization and streamline access to applications like never before.

Go here for more details

In June 2022, NIST’s Crypto Publication Review Board initiated a review process for Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-4, Secure Hash Standard (SHS), and received public comments. In December 2022, the board proposed revising FIPS 180-4 and received no additional comments on that proposed decision.
NIST has decided to revise FIPS 180-4 and will revise the text to: 

Adding IPv6 support to Azure Active
Directory

We’re excited to bring IPv6 support
to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to support customers with increased
mobility and help reduce spending on fast-depleting expensive IPv4 addresses.
The meeting is targeted to all IT Professionals.

 Agenda:

• Why
  are we introducing IPv6?
• Rollout
  plan
• What
  is the impact?
• Steps
  to take before the enablement.

 Speakers:

Kunal Ghosh, Senior Product Manager, Identity
CxP

Lisa Huang-North, Senior Product Manager, Identity
CxP

Gautam Anand, Senior Product Manager, Identity
CxP

Go here to register