CIA Brief 240203

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CIA Brief 240127

Sulava improves productivity and reaches more customers with Teams Premium –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYsKMnt9U8U

What’s new in Microsoft Intune January 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-intune-blog/what-s-new-in-microsoft-intune-january-2024/ba-p/4036593

How to join immersive spaces –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN83rjhd-3g

Bring virtual connections to life with Microsoft Mesh, now generally available in Microsoft Teams –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2024/01/24/bring-virtual-connections-to-life-with-microsoft-mesh-now-generally-available-in-microsoft-teams/

Meet your AI assistant for education: Microsoft Copilot –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5z6t9gSO4E

What’s new in the Microsoft 365 app on the web and for Windows –

https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/whats-new-in-the-microsoft-365-app-december-2023

How to explore immersive spaces –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esBzumV_59Q

Easily control audio and video settings in Teams meetings –

https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/easily-control-audio-and-video-settings-in-teams-meetings

Feature Deep Dive: Open in App –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-onedrive-blog/feature-deep-dive-open-in-app/ba-p/4034738

Microsoft Entra user and admin access controls to prepare for Copilot –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-mechanics-blog/microsoft-entra-user-and-admin-access-controls-to-prepare-for/ba-p/4034067

Vulnerable Components Inventory now in public preview –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-vulnerability/vulnerable-components-inventory-now-in-public-preview/ba-p/4035357

After hours

Why work doesn’t happen at work –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XD2kNopsUs

Editorial

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CIA Brief 240120

How to get started with AI for industry and business leaders –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-cloud/blog/2023/12/19/how-to-get-started-with-ai-for-industry-and-business-leaders/

Microsoft Entra’s Top 50 Features of 2023 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/microsoft-entra-s-top-50-features-of-2023/ba-p/3796392

Protect faster with Microsoft Defender XDR’s latest UX enhancements –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/protect-faster-with-microsoft-defender-xdr-s-latest-ux/ba-p/4027497

Westpac transforms IT and enables secure, inclusive, flexible work with Windows 11 Enterprise and Autopatch –

https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/1683252944405589807-westpac-banking-capital-markets

How AI can help you banish bad meetings –

https://news.microsoft.com/how-ai-can-help-you-banish-bad-meetings/

New Microsoft Incident Response guides help security teams analyze suspicious activity –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/01/17/new-microsoft-incident-response-guides-help-security-teams-analyze-suspicious-activity/

Introducing SharePoint Premium for Information Workers –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfkGr7Pse3A

Copilot in Viva Engage is now in Public Preview –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/viva-engage-blog/copilot-in-viva-engage-is-now-in-public-preview/ba-p/4031051

Employee quick setup –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XV6ciESunUw

Building your own copilot – yes, but how? (Part 1 of 2) –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/educator-developer-blog/building-your-own-copilot-yes-but-how-part-1-of-2/ba-p/4029571

Introducing the new PowerShell Module for Microsoft Defender for Identity –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/introducing-the-new-powershell-module-for-microsoft-defender-for/ba-p/4028734

Visualize Entra Sign-in Logs using an Interactive Map –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/visualize-entra-sign-in-logs-using-an-interactive-map/ba-p/4013853

Train your users to be more resilient against QR code phishing –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/train-your-users-to-be-more-resilient-against-qr-code-phishing/ba-p/4022667

Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/copilot-for-microsoft-365

Microsoft 365 Copilot video play list –

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXPr7gfUMmKxDKxah3zpG4NhhDj-2lAvc

Copilot for Microsoft 365 for small and medium businesses –

https://adoption-dev.azurewebsites.net/en-us/copilot/smb/

Bringing the full power of Copilot to more people and businesses –

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2024/01/15/bringing-the-full-power-of-copilot-to-more-people-and-businesses/

Introducing Microsoft Copilot App –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKcyU8hh14Q

Introducing Copilot Pro: Supercharge your Creativity and Productivity –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QXS-boCQZI

Microsoft’s new Copilot Pro brings AI-powered Office features to the rest of us –

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/15/24038711/microsoft-copilot-pro-office-ai-apps

Microsoft unlocks Copilot AI inside Office apps for all businesses –

https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/15/24038726/microsoft-copilot-microsoft-365-business-launch-availability

Introducing Automatic File and URL (Detonation) Analysis –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-threat/introducing-automatic-file-and-url-detonation-analysis/ba-p/4000489

After hours

A Guided Tour of Apple Vision Pro –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vb0dG-2huJE

Editorial

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CIA Brief 240113

Intune iOS/iPadOS Management In a Nutshell –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/intune-ios-ipados-management-in-a-nutshell/ba-p/4015363

Introducing SharePoint Premium for IT Admins –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnqZYx_7tZA

Make any space a smart workplace with Microsoft Teams –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io4jXTtW5B4

Introducing Automatic File and URL (Detonation) Analysis –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-threat/introducing-automatic-file-and-url-detonation-analysis/ba-p/4000489

Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Endpoint Protection Platforms –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/01/12/microsoft-is-named-a-leader-in-the-2023-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-endpoint-protection-platforms/

Welcome to Business Assist –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFC0TTGMaRk

Microsoft Teams, the smart workplace for your frontline workers –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdWn5ShOqo8

Microsoft briefly overtakes Apple as world’s most valuable company –

https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-overtakes-apple-worlds-most-valuable-company-2024-01-11/

New Windows 365 Boot and Switch features in public preview –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/new-windows-365-boot-and-switch-features-in-public-preview/ba-p/4027398

Experience Defender Experts above the fold –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-experts-blog/experience-defender-experts-above-the-fold/ba-p/4026320

Monthly news – January 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/monthly-news-january-2024/ba-p/4025630

SharePoint Premium and Content Management: 2023 in Review and What’s Next in 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint-premium-blog/sharepoint-premium-and-content-management-2023-in-review-and/ba-p/4024391

Microsoft 365 Admin Monthly Digest – Jan 2024 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/microsoft-365-admin-monthly-digest-jan-2024/ba-p/4024956

Become a Microsoft Unified SOC Platform Ninja –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-sentinel-blog/become-a-microsoft-unified-soc-platform-ninja/ba-p/4014565

Microsoft, Palo Alto and other security leaders make 2024 AI security predictions –

https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/feature/microsoft-palo-alto-and-other-security-leaders-make-2024-ai-security-predictions/2024/01/

How Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365 works –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJsf0Tpz0ho&list=PLXtHYVsvn_b_t2dNsM86jUHpzlL0RlCF8

Onboarding Intune Managed iOS User Enrollment Devices to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/onboarding-intune-managed-ios-user-enrollment-devices-to/ba-p/4020858

Build customer relationships with Microsoft 365 for business –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtZ5hOxU3Z8

Stand out from the competition with Microsoft 365 for business –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaL1YUUQIUs

After hours

My kinda Copilot –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_BCS-Wisk

Editorial

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CIA Brief 240106

Rerun queries in query history

Microsoft Datacenter Tour: Virtual Experience

SharePoint Roadmap Pitstop: December 2023

Enabling Microsoft Syntex PAYG

Experience AI-enhanced meetings in every Teams Room

Introducing a new Copilot key to kick off the year of AI-powered Windows PCs

What’s New in Microsoft Teams | December 2023

Get organized at work with Microsoft Loop

Copilot app for iOS

Copilot app for Android

Financially motivated threat actors misusing App Installer

Overview of multi factor authentication

After hours

GoPro: Best of 2023 –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yb2cX8qwCho

Editorial

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CIA Brief 231231

Financially motivated threat actors misusing App Installer –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/12/28/financially-motivated-threat-actors-misusing-app-installer/

Overview of multi factor authentication –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCFAoMPFq-Q

CIAOPS Need to Know podcast – Episode 311 – https://ciaops.podbean.com/e/episode-311-copilot-fatigue/

After hours

How scam call centers actually work –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrZZan7QfEo

Editorial

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CIA Brief 231223

Microsoft Intune and Security Copilot – Policy Generation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV1Q5X6P8yM

Microsoft Intune and Security Copilot – Troubleshooting – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4atFroJw28I

Perspectives on 2023 – https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/perspectives-2023-jeff-teper-kk0ic/

Research at Microsoft 2023: A year of groundbreaking AI advances and discoveries –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/research-at-microsoft-2023-a-year-of-groundbreaking-ai-advances-and-discoveries/

Managing Microsoft Sentinel across multiple tenants using Lighthouse –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/marketplace-blog/managing-microsoft-sentinel-across-multiple-tenants-using/ba-p/4013847

Microsoft Viva Overview –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxRSA55nRVg

Decorate your background in Teams meetings –

https://insider.microsoft365.com/en-us/blog/decorate-your-background-in-teams-meetings

With Copilot, Every Meeting Is a ‘Digital Artifact’ –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/worklab/with-copilot-every-meeting-is-a-digital-artifact

Upcoming changes to Windows single sign-on –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/upcoming-changes-to-windows-single-sign-on/ba-p/4008151

After hours

Car Thief Gets Instant Karma (the FINAL Glitterbomb 6.0) –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWWWyG5ZwG8

Editorial

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CIA Brief 231217

Investigating malicious OAuth applications using the Unified Audit Log –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-experts-blog/investigating-malicious-oauth-applications-using-the-unified/ba-p/4007172

Patching Perforce perforations: Critical RCE vulnerability discovered in Perforce Helix Core Server –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/12/15/patching-perforce-perforations-critical-rce-vulnerability-discovered-in-perforce-helix-core-server/

Advancing Cybersecurity: The Latest enhancement in Phishing-Resistant Authentication –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/advancing-cybersecurity-the-latest-enhancement-in-phishing/ba-p/2365681

Get started with Microsoft 365 for business –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWutD2Zb1Zk

Copilot for Microsoft 365 | Work On –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QEL9Y3Udvc

Satya Nadella 2023: Year of AI –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu6Wq8lLUN0

Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty now generally available, opening new pathways for government innovation –

https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/12/14/microsoft-cloud-for-sovereignty-now-generally-available-opening-new-pathways-for-government-innovation/

Introducing New Features of Microsoft Entra Permissions Management –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-entra-blog/introducing-new-features-of-microsoft-entra-permissions/ba-p/2466925

Announcing updates to Copilot for Microsoft 365 availability –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/copilot-for-microsoft-365/announcing-updates-to-copilot-for-microsoft-365-availability/ba-p/4007075

Microsoft Sentinel – SOAR through the SIEM, begin with the basics –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/fasttrack-for-azure/microsoft-sentinel-soar-through-the-siem-begin-with-the-basics/ba-p/3990142

Disrupting the gateway services to cybercrime –

https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2023/12/13/cybercrime-cybersecurity-storm-1152-fraudulent-accounts/

Protect your organizations against QR code phishing with Defender for Office 365 –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-for-office/protect-your-organizations-against-qr-code-phishing-with/ba-p/4007041

Strengthening identity protection in the face of highly sophisticated attacks –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/security-compliance-and-identity/strengthening-identity-protection-in-the-face-of-highly/ba-p/4006009

Threat actors misuse OAuth applications to automate financially driven attacks –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/12/12/threat-actors-misuse-oauth-applications-to-automate-financially-driven-attacks/

New Microsoft Incident Response team guide shares best practices for security teams and leaders –

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2023/12/11/new-microsoft-incident-response-team-guide-shares-best-practices-for-security-teams-and-leaders/

Microsoft Defender XDR unified role-based access control (RBAC) model is now generally available –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-defender-xdr-blog/microsoft-defender-xdr-unified-role-based-access-control-rbac/ba-p/3993793

Staged rollout management for Graph connectors is generally available –

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-search-blog/staged-rollout-management-for-graph-connectors-is-generally/ba-p/3998367

After hours

MInesweeper the movie –

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHY8NKj3RKs

Editorial

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