Microsoft Defender Weekly Wrap - Issue #14
Welcome one and all to issue 14 of this newsletter. I hope the recent changes are settling in fine with everyone as we focus on the wider range of Defender-branded services and products.
As continues to be the case, Microsoft this week has laid out some pretty spectacular new advances in how our security platforms and services are designed to deliver for our customers. You'll read in this issue about some bold new strategies that have piqued the interest of even the technology news sites. I find it interesting how many more tech media orgs are now covering our security advances where in the past security was just a minor topic. It's good to see security and security focused topics hit the mainstream. Through this exposure security will become more top of mind instead of just something delegated to that hooded, tattooed group in the office basement.
Have a great week everyone!
My wife and I celebrated 32 years of marriage together on Thursday. More amazing than the number of years we've been able to string together is that they've been happy and fulfilling. She somehow found a way to tolerate my silliness and still seems to tolerate this grumpiness the older I get. I'm truly blessed.
-Rod
Things that are Related
Extend the reach of Azure AD Identity Protection into workload identities - Microsoft Tech Community — techcommunity.microsoft.com We are delighted to announce the public preview for Azure AD Identity Protection for workload identities ! This work comes from working with our customers
CloudKnox Permissions Management is now in Public Preview - Microsoft Tech Community Last July we announced the acquisition of CloudKnox Security, a leader in Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) . As an important move in our
Things in the News
Microsoft Security delivers new multicloud capabilities - Microsoft Security Blog — www.microsoft.com Today, we’re announcing new advances to help customers strengthen visibility and control across multiple cloud providers, workloads, devices, and digital identities—all from a centralized management view. These new features and offerings are designed to secure the foundations of hybrid work and digital transformation.
Microsoft now delivers comprehensive protection with new multi-cloud capabilities - Neowin — www.neowin.net Microsoft has announced new multi-cloud capabilities to aid customers in enhancing visibility and control across multiple cloud providers, workloads, devices, and digital identities from a centralized management view.
Microsoft Defender expands its reach, now supports Google Cloud as well as AWS | Windows Central — www.windowscentral.com Microsoft Defender for Cloud just added support for Google Cloud. Microsoft’s security solution now works with three of the most popular cloud providers: Azure, AWS, and Google Cloud.
Microsoft Defender Is About To Make It Tougher For Hackers To Steal Windows Passwords | HotHardware — hothardware.com Microsoft Defender gets a new default setting for security policy on enterprise systems.
Microsoft updates security applications for multicloud environments | CSO Online — www.csoonline.com Microsoft is extending Microsoft Defender for Cloud to support Google Cloud environments, rolling out a raft of security updates for Azure Active Directory and Azure, and making its CloudKnox Permissions Management platform available for public preview.
Microsoft Added Google Cloud Support in its Defender For Cloud Suite — techdator.net Microsoft today announced adding security support for Google Cloud Platform through its Defender for Cloud.
Defender for Endpoint Things
Defender for Cloud Things
NEW: Protect your Google Cloud workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud Public Preview — techcommunity.microsoft.com Microsoft Defender for Cloud provides threat protection for GCP workloads
NEW: Auto provision Log Analytics agent to Azure Arc-enabled machines (preview) — docs.microsoft.com A description of what's new and changed in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
NEW: Microsoft Defender for Key Vault - Deploy to Azure Synapse Analytics - Microsoft Tech Community — techcommunity.microsoft.com We are excited to announce that Microsoft Defender for Key Vault has moved the back-end processing infrastructure to Azure Synapse Analytics. The benefits
NEW: Recommendations to enable Microsoft Defender plans on workspaces (in preview) — docs.microsoft.com A description of what's new and changed in Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Microsoft 365 Defender Things
BLOG: Reduce time to response with classification — techcommunity.microsoft.com Classifying an alert or incident means you tag it as representing true malicious activity or a false alarm as part of the initial triage process. This
BLOG: Quickly get assessment recommendations in Microsoft Compliance Manager - Microsoft Tech Community — techcommunity.microsoft.com Microsoft Compliance Manager helps you manage your organization's (or customer's) compliance requirements with greater ease and convenience by providing
Microsoft Defender for IoT Things
NEW: What's new in Microsoft Defender for IoT - Microsoft Defender for IoT | Microsoft Docs — docs.microsoft.com This article lets you know what's new in the latest release of Defender for IoT.
BLOG: Microsoft Defender for IoT - General Release Update - Microsoft Tech Community — techcommunity.microsoft.com In addition to our December announcement for the recent version of Microsoft Defender for IoT . Today we are excited to announce that our first General
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps Things
DOCS: Integrate Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Defender for Cloud Apps | Discover Shadow IT — docs.microsoft.com This article describes how to integrate Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with Defender for Cloud Apps for enhanced visibility into Shadow IT and risk management.