Newsletter #3 2024

Published on: February 11, 2024

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The community has created a lot of content. In this newsletter, I reviewed about 200 items, I selected 25 community blogs and 4 videos. I also highlighted the following 3 items:

  • Still, granting Graph API permissions to non-human entities to access Exchange Online resources?
  • Entra ID Governance Training
  • Differences between Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Microsoft 365 Cloud App Security?

Enjoy

Highlights

Still, granting Graph API permissions to non-human entities to access Exchange Online resources?

If you still grant Graph API permissions to non-human identities to access Exchange Online resources, please consider moving to Role Based Access Control for Applications in Exchange Online instead. It’s more granular and scalable than giving out mail.read/write.all, giving access to ALL mailboxes.

If we look at the latest hack at Microsoft, this is one of the lessons we can take from that. https://lnkd.in/e-mF5Qjv

Jan Bakker has written a blog post about it to raise awareness: Check out his blogpost here

Entra ID Governance Training

This GitHub repository is dedicated to Entra Identity Governance – a comprehensive resource hub designed to guide you through the intricacies of managing identities effectively. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just starting, here you’ll find the tools, documentation, and training materials to master the art of identity governance.

More information: Click here

Differences between Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps and Microsoft 365 Cloud App Security?

5 main differences in capability:
▪ Cloud Discovery
▪ Information Protection
▪ Threat Detection
▪ Conditional Access App Control
▪ Cloud Platform Security

More information: Click here

Security topics to watch

Power Platform Activity Logging In Microsoft Purview

Power Platform Activity Logging In Microsoft Purview.

Microsoft Purview provides detailed logs about Power Platform that you need to police the activity. This cannot be done via the existing Power Platform Center of Excellence (CoE) Tool and hence it is important to consider leveraging this feature. In this video I will walk you through where in Microsoft Purview this feature is available, how to use it, and then do a side-by-side comparison with Power Platform’s CoE tool.

Click here to view the video on YouTube

A New Approach to Get Your Cloud Risks Under Control

Oz Wilder (Director of Product – Microsoft Defender for Cloud) and Dr. Tamer Salman (Head of Research – Microsoft Defender for Cloud) share a new approach to get your cloud risks under control. We were platinum sponsors at the SANS 2023 Multicloud Survey: Navigating the Complexities of Multiple Clouds. Multicloud adoption will continue to increase as organizations require increased agility, flexibility, choice, and scalability.

Click here to view the video on YouTube

Recommendation Prioritization | Defender for Cloud in the Field #45

In this episode of Defender for Cloud in the Field, Aviram Yitzhak joins Yuri Diogenes to talk about recommendation prioritization in Microsoft Defender for Cloud. Aviram explains the correlation between recommendation prioritization and attack path, and when to use each dashboard. Aviram also demonstrates the user experience when using recommendation prioritization dashboard to triage recommendations based on risk factors.

Click here to view the video on YouTube

MS Purview Customer Network Monthly Meeting Series

In the February monthly call from Microsoft Purview Customer Network community I was invited to talk about MPARR, please review the recorded session where I was talking in general about MPARR but adiitionally, they are talking about new features, new reports and new things that I’m adding to our roadmap. I hope that you can enjoy this session.

Click here to view the video on YouTube

Blogs from the community

This is the end of this newsletter. Thank you for reading the Endpoint Security newsletter, I hope you have found valuable content that you can use.

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René Laas – MVP
EndpointCave

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