IT administrators can now more easily find, configure, deploy and monitor macOS settings in Microsoft Endpoint Manager after Microsoft released support for macOS policies in its settings catalog and added support for new payload settings. Microsoft calls this part of its continued investment in macOS platform management and one that eliminates some manual processes previously […]
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure AD Identity Protection for workload identities that includes purpose-built anomaly detection capabilities for workload identities with user detections to help protect the entire IT environment. According to Microsoft, cloud migrations include software workloads like apps, services or scripts that access cloud resources and have workload identities in […]
Microsoft now offers multi-cloud protection for the cloud industry’s top three platforms by extending the native capabilities for Microsoft Defender for Cloud to the Google Cloud Platform. This follows cloud security support for AWS in Defender for Cloud, which Microsoft released last November during its Ignite conference. According to Microsoft, Defender for Cloud support for […]
Microsoft is positioning itself as a partner in the U.S. government’s push toward a Zero Trust architecture, including the publication of resources designed to help organizations migrate to the cloud and adopt a Zero Trust framework and the release of Azure capabilities to help secure cloud environments. In a new blog, Microsoft outlined several resources, […]
Like Windows 11 Home edition, Windows 11 Pro edition will require an internet connection and Microsoft account during the initial device setup, Microsoft says. The news came in a blog announcing features and fixes in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22557 released to the Dev Channel. The requirement will likely be required as part of […]
As Microsoft Teams boasts a growing user base that is now over 270 million monthly active users, hackers are targeting it as a launchpad for sending malicious files, according to a new report from cybersecurity firm Avanan. The company, a Check Point subsidiary, says it began last month observing hackers dropping malicious executable files in […]
Microsoft has announced the public preview of Azure Active Directory certificate-based authentication across its commercial and U.S. government clouds, a response to President Joe Biden’s executive order on cybersecurity designed to push the government to zero trust. The offering is designed to help government customers meet phishing-resistant MFA using the PIV/CAC cards, and it can […]
Along with over a dozen bug fixes, Microsoft has added several new features to its Windows 11 Build 22000.526 for Windows Insiders in the Beta and Release Preview channels, including support for Windows Hello for Business Cloud Trust. In a blog post outlining the new features and improvements, Microsoft calls Windows Hello for Business Cloud […]
Microsoft has released two highly requested Windows 365 Enterprise features this month: Azure AD Join support and first-run localized experiences. The company says it has been listening to feedback from IT pros about its cloud PC offering, rolled out in August 2021, and has released the two top requested features into public preview. According to […]
Microsoft has released just 51 new patches to address vulnerabilities this month, but February’s Patch Tuesday comes with an anomaly: there are no critical-rated patches. The number of security patches is unusually low, as the company last month issued fixes for over 120 security bugs and patched 67 vulnerabilities in December. However, the most unusual […]
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