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Microsoft this week announced a preview of dynamic administrative units, which facilitates matters for IT pros overseeing Azure Active Directory.
04/14/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced that it has updated its "best practices" advice for securing domain controllers.
04/14/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced the "general availability" commercial release of "differentiated protection for priority accounts" for Microsoft Defender for Office 365 users.
04/13/2022
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The Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance now has a certification program for IT professionals.
04/13/2022
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It's Patch Tuesday yet again. And Microsoft is making it a memorable one with 128 vulnerability fixes – the most seen since October 2020.
04/12/2022
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Microsoft on Monday announced that its Microsoft Defender for Endpoint security solution now supports older Windows Server products, namely Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016.
04/12/2022
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Was giving up the control of my self-hosted email worth it to hand Microsoft over the keys completely?
04/12/2022
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SQL Server 2022 is nearing a public preview release, Microsoft announced on Monday.
04/12/2022
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Microsoft's coming Windows 11 security improvements, announced last week, may be available for Windows 10 machines as well.
04/11/2022
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Security solutions companies CrowdStrike and Mandiant have formed a strategic partnership across some of their security products for organizations, per a Thursday CrowdStrike announcement.
04/08/2022
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Here's an interesting thought experiment in an age of automation and remote work.
04/07/2022
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Microsoft is previewing the ability for IT departments using its Configuration Manager tool to give their Windows users a so-called "native inbox experience" when getting updates, according to a Thursday announcement.
04/07/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday described security enhancements coming in "a future release of Windows 11."
04/07/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday offered guidance on the so-called "Spring4Shell" vulnerability in the Spring Framework overseen by VMware, while also indicating that its own services were unaffected.
04/06/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday unveiled Windows Autopatch, which lets Microsoft take over quality and security patching operations in organizations, including Windows operating system feature updates, plus driver updates.
04/05/2022
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In an effort to make Windows the "most accessible and inclusive" version of the OS, Microsoft on Tuesday outlined a few new upgrades and features, including a redesigned File Explorer.
04/05/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday profiled coming Windows 365 enhancements as part of an overall theme of supporting "hybrid work" scenarios.
04/05/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday described Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) as becoming a "single, cloud powered solution" for organizations, with new capabilities.
04/05/2022
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Microsoft on Friday announced the "general availability" commercial release of System Center 2022, its suite of management, configuration, deployment and analysis tools for enterprise organizations.
04/01/2022
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Google is pointing to government organizations' reliance on Microsoft technology as a serious security threat.
04/01/2022
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Microsoft on Thursday announced the acquisition of Minit, a maker of process mining software for organizations.
03/31/2022
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The Spring Framework can be subject to newly a disclosed "zero-day" vulnerability (CVE-2022-22965) that's deemed "Critical," according to a Thursday announcement by Spring developer VMware.
03/31/2022
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Software development and IT services company Globant appears to have confirmed getting hacked, and it likely was done by the Lapsus$ criminal gang.
03/30/2022
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Microsoft this week announced a public preview of the ability to use Azure Arc to manage Linux or Windows virtual machines (VMs) when using Azure Stack HCI.
03/30/2022
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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the "general availability" (GA) commercial release of Azure Front Door, its latest content delivery network (CDN) service for securing and supporting high-availability Web content and "global" applications.
03/29/2022
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The metaverse is coming and, with it, a new landscape for cyber threats.
03/29/2022
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While there's no real reason why you would need to read a floppy disk, that shouldn't stop us from seeing if we can do it!
03/29/2022
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Microsoft on Monday announced that Office 365 Government Secret, a new software-as-a-service offering for U.S. federal agencies and their partners, is getting ready for "availability starting mid-2022."
03/28/2022
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A new "Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework" was agreed to "in principle," as announced on Friday by the European Commission and the Biden White House.
03/25/2022
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Seven individuals connected with the Lapsus$ hacking group, including the suspected ringleader, were arrested on Thursday in the surrounding areas of London.
03/25/2022
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Microsoft announced this week that it has already started a phased rollout of its new "search highlights" feature for Windows 10 users, which also will be coming shortly to Windows 11 users.
03/25/2022
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Here's how Microsoft can make data migration easier on us.
03/25/2022
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Microsoft is continuing to add capabilities to its budding Windows Update for Business Deployment Service, introducing a "gradual rollouts" capability this week.
03/24/2022
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Okta issued a follow-up statement on Wednesday regarding an attack by the Lapsus$ group, indicating that 366 of its customers (about 2.5 percent) at maximum may have been affected.
03/23/2022
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In three years there will be 3.5 million vacant cybersecurity jobs across the globe. And that's going to lead to real problems in addressing the growing threat landscape, according to Microsoft.
03/23/2022
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Identity services provider Okta on Tuesday stated that its service wasn't breached by Lapsus$ attackers, although the account of a third-party support engineer working with Okta did get hacked back in January.
03/22/2022
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The Biden White House this week warned that U.S. "critical infrastructure" operators should "harden their cyberdefenses immediately" against possible Russian attacks.
03/22/2022
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
Sick of getting bugged every few minutes? make it stop. For good.
03/21/2022
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Microsoft last week introduced Operator Connect Mobile, a new capability to come that promises to make Teams calls and mobile phone connections more seamless.
03/21/2022
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Microsoft this week announced a preview of its next Windows Server ("VNext") enhancements, which includes a new approach for deterring brute-force attempts to guess system passwords and gain network access.
03/18/2022
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Upping the resolution is only one step in making VR headsets feel more natural to use.
03/18/2022
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Microsoft is planning to release a preview of Teams Connect shared channels at the end of this month, which aims to ease collaborations with external parties, according to a Wednesday announcement.
03/17/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday announced that its Surface Hub 2 Smart Camera is now commercially available.
03/16/2022
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Microsoft on Wednesday released its latest "Work Trend Index" report, which supports the remote-work trends of the last couple of years.
03/16/2022
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Microsoft this week announced the general availability of Azure Health Data Services, a platform for managing and analyzing various forms of patient data.
03/16/2022
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Organizations should not only use multifactor authentication (MFA), but they should also ensure that it's not misconfigured to ward off possible Russian state-sponsored attacks.
03/15/2022
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Microsoft is bringing a few new features to Teams aimed at improving how health care workers interact and communicate with patients.
03/15/2022
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Posey's Tips & Tricks
While third-party tools are usually the way to go, let's take a look how to back up your Windows system using the baked in resources.
03/14/2022
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Hardware still accounted for about almost a third (30 percent) of IT spending in 2021, despite the general cloud market pull, according to a newly published study.
03/14/2022
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Women accounted for just 25 percent of the global cybersecurity force in 2021, according to Microsoft.
03/11/2022