Today we are going to look at one of the quickest ways any organisation (that uses Microsoft 365) can enhance its cyber security – encryption. Why encryption? I was leading a Cyber Security Awareness course last week and one of the first things we discussed was best practice when it …
Is Microsoft and New Outlook being “reasonable”?
Here is an interesting story about the new Microsoft Outlook app spying on you – well not on me I do not use it. It comes from a source that I am unfamiliar with, but it was referenced by Bruce Schneier, a source I respect. Outlook is Microsoft’s new data …
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Secure those Online Services
We were early adopters when Microsoft launched Office 365, the online services that would become Microsoft 365. Up to then we had been purchasing Microsoft Office licenses each time a new version of Office was released, which was a substantial cost to a small IT company, but we needed to …
If Microsoft can get it wrong…
It has emerged that senior executives at Microsoft had their emails hacked and monitored by Russian threat actors for nearly 2 months. Microsoft network breached through password-spraying by Russian-state hackers | Ars Technica The attack was not sophisticated. The threat actors – Midnight Blizzard – using nothing more than a …
Microsoft raises the security bar
Microsoft is going to automatically deploy a policy for many of it’s customers that will make it mandatory for administrator users to use MFA. Microsoft will roll out MFA-enforcing policies for admin portal access (bleepingcomputer.com) Of course the admins could turn this policy off – but why would they? Watch …