CIA Brief 240203

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CIAOPS Need to Know Microsoft 365 Webinar – February

Join me for the free monthly CIAOPS Need to Know webinar. Along with all the Microsoft Cloud news we’ll be taking a look at Copilot for Microsoft 365 now that it is available generally..

Shortly after registering you should receive an automated email from Microsoft Teams confirming your registration, including all the event details as well as a calendar invite.

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February Webinar Registrations

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The details are:

CIAOPS Need to Know Webinar – Febraury 2024
Tuesday 20th of February 2024
11.00am – 12.00am Sydney Time

All sessions are recorded and posted to the CIAOPS Academy.

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January Microsoft 365 Webinar resources

The slides from this month’s webinar are available at:

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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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Need to Know podcast–Episode 312

Welcome to 2024! A few pieces of interesting news and updates from Microsoft especially around the PAYG offering with Syntex. I’m hanging out for the remaining items in the Intune suite to drop, especially third party patching so stay tuned for more information when that becomes available. Until then here’ s the latest in the Microsoft Cloud.

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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

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

Also, I’m doing a summer camp deep dive into Microsoft 365 Secure Score. You can read more and sign up here – https://blog.ciaops.com/2023/12/11/ciaops-summer-school-is-open-for-enrolments/

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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

I’m running a session on Microsoft Copilot in a few weeks. Read more and sign up for free here – https://blog.ciaops.com/2023/12/04/ciaops-need-to-know-microsoft-365-webinar-december-5/

Also, I’m doing a summer camp deep dive into Microsoft 365 Secure Score. You can read more and sign up here – https://blog.ciaops.com/2023/12/11/ciaops-summer-school-is-open-for-enrolments/

If you want to be part of a dedicated Microsoft Cloud community with information and interactions daily, then consider becoming a CIAOPS Patron – www.ciaopspatron.com.

Watch out for the next CIA Brief next week.