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S5E38 - Microsoft updates October - new products and features released

Let's Talk Azure!

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Updates on Microsoft Defender and Entra Features

This chapter explores recent updates in Microsoft security tools, particularly Defender for Cloud Apps and Entra. It covers new advanced hunting features, improvements in threat detection, and updates on passkey authentication for Android devices.

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so that's really good so that's gonna be helping you know secure your active directory on-prem and things like that so uh moving on and so for dev fender for cloud apps in effect what we're seeing here is new data going into the advanced hunting cloud app events table in the defender xdr pool so they've got stuff around new anomaly data new conditional access app control and inline data i want to see what uh off app ids so they're just updating it's probably helping with the integrations in effect to bring some of that extra data for from defender for cloud apps now being truly sort of integrated into the xdr sort of platform so extra data that you can create, yeah, custom detection rules or your, yeah, will be custom detection rules to detect threats and things like that. I think that's quite good. Yeah. And of course that data is included in your licensing because it's not being pushed into Sentinelinel so that's that's quite good as well uh entra so on to entra um there wasn't anything for uh defender for endpoint uh this this month so yeah that's why we've jumped on to entra uh really around here it's all about um pass key authentication uh on android so being able to use your pass keys uh from in your in uh for your microsoft apps on android uh using the brokers for microsoft authenticator or the company portal so that's a push to start actually using it on on mobile devices and i think that was probably it that's worth talking about on entra i do need to check whether they've um whether they include gsa global secure access in these updates as or there's another separate page for that it's kind of different in itself that makes sense because this is actually entry id so yeah i'll check that in the background uh so if we move to defender for cloud uh within here uh we've got some deprecations uh let's just look at this yeah so it's a couple of deprecations it's more around the compliance standards so they're getting weird getting weird rid of uh swift csp version 2020 because it's a 2282 version so it kind of makes sense uh and the cis microsoft assure foundational benchmark 1.1 and 1.3 because there's two new versions 1.4 and 2 that have come out uh and there's some other ones for defender for cloud standards uh they're removing the adors cspm and gcp cspm and i think that's more that it's basically being replaced with the defender uh sorry not defender the microsoft cloud security benchmark because in effect it's the same thing i think they just used that whilst it

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