Making it easier for your remote workforce to securely access all the apps they need, from anywhere

Since I published my last blog, Five identity priorities for 2020, COVID-19 has upended the way we work and socialize. Now that physical distancing has become essential to protect everyone’s health, more people than ever are going online to connect and get things done. As we all adjust to a new...

Alternative ways for security professionals and IT to achieve modern security controls in today’s unique remote work scenarios

With the bulk of end users now working remotely, legacy network architectures that route all remote traffic through a central corporate network are suddenly under enormous strain. The result can be poorer performance, productivity, and user experience. Many organizations are now rethinking their...

Work remotely, stay secure—guidance for CISOs

With many employees suddenly working from home, there are things an organization and employees can do to help remain productive without increasing cybersecurity risk. While employees in this new remote work situation will be thinking about how to stay in touch with colleagues and coworkers using...

Quick wins—single sign-on (SSO) and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

With Multi-Factor Authentication MFA and single sign-on SSO being a few of the most effective countermeasures against modern threats, organizations should consider a Cloud Identity as a Service IDaaS, and MFA solution, like Azure Active Directory AD. Here are seven benefits: 1. Azure AD is simple...

Microsoft and Zscaler help organizations implement the Zero Trust model

While digital transformation is critical to business innovation, delivering security to cloud-first, mobile-first architectures requires rethinking traditional network security solutions. Some businesses have been successful in doing so, while others still remain at risk of very costly breaches...

A Practical Guide to Zero-Trust Security

Employees are demanding that employers enable flexible workstyles. Apps are moving to the cloud. A company’s device and application mix are increasingly heterogeneous. All of these factors are breaking down the enterprise security perimeter, rendering traditional security approaches obsolete, and...

Mobile threat defense and intelligence are a core part of cyber defense

The modern workplace is a mobile workplace. Today’s organizations rely on mobility to increase productivity and improve the customer experience. But the proliferation of smartphones and other mobile devices has also expanded the attack surface of roughly 5 billion mobile devices in the world, man...

Gartner names Microsoft a Leader in 2019 Endpoint Protection Platforms Magic Quadrant

Our mission as a company is to empower every person on the planet to achieve more. We deliver on that mission through products that achieve the highest marks in the industry, which we believe is inclusive of Gartner’s Magic Quadrant. We have been on a journey for the last several years working ha...

Veeam Backup for Office 365 Complete Permissions

This KB is being phased out The content of this article is being transitioned to the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 User Guide. An up-to-date list of Required Permission is available in the Veeam Backup for Microsoft 365 User Guide. Authentication Modes Summary Depending on the Microsoft 365...

5 principles driving a customer-obsessed identity strategy at Microsoft

The cloud era has fundamentally changed the way businesses must think about security. For a long time, we built security around the perimeter. But today, the boundaryless landscape demands that we start with the individual. In our journey with customers co-designing our products and services,...

Ovum recommends Microsoft security to safeguard your hybrid and multi cloud environments

According to a new Ovum report, "Azure Sentinel…positions Microsoft to be a force for change in a security information and events management SIEM market that is ripe for disruption at the moment." As enterprises migrate to the cloud, they’re increasingly operating on-premises and cloud environmen...

Secure access to your enterprise with Microsoft 365 Enterprise E5

Most lessons in cybersecurity are born out of necessity. In this case, it was my need for a haircut. Last weekend, I was reminded why it’s time to rethink the conventional wisdom about secure passwords and user access. I was making an appointment online and at the very end of the process, the...

Windows Defender ATP device risk score exposes new cyberattack, drives Conditional access to protect networks

Several weeks ago, the Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Windows Defender ATP team uncovered a new cyberattack that targeted several high-profile organizations in the energy and food and beverage sectors in Asia. Given the target region and verticals, the attack chain, and the toolsets...

How Microsoft 365 Security integrates with your broader IT ecosystem—part 3

Todays post was coauthored by Debraj Ghosh, Senior Product Marketing Manager, and Diana Kelley, Cybersecurity Field CTO. Customer satisfaction is one of the most important goals for Microsoft 365 Security. In part 1 of this series, we discussed Microsofts overall security strategy for connecting...

Protect your data in files, apps, and devices

This blog is part of a series that responds to common questions we receive from customers about deployment of Microsoft 365 security solutions. In this series youll find context, answers, and guidance for deployment and driving adoption within your organization. Check out our last blog, Enable yo...

Building Zero Trust networks with Microsoft 365

The traditional perimeter-based network defense is obsolete. Perimeter-based networks operate on the assumption that all systems within a network can be trusted. However, todays increasingly mobile workforce, the migration towards public cloud services, and the adoption of Bring Your Own Device...

February 22, 2018—KB4077528 (OS Build 15063.936)

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Cross-site Scripting (XSS)

Moodle is vulnerable to cross-site scripting XSS attacks. A malicious user can inject and execute arbitrary script through the conditional access rule value of a user field as the input is not properly escaped in that field...

How to Configure NetScaler Gateway and Microsoft Intune (MDM) for Single Factor Authentication

Background The integration of Microsoft Intune with NetScaler Gateway provides best-of-class application access and data protection solution offered by Citrix NetScaler Gateway and Intune. You get the most complete suite of secure productivity apps, including: email calendar contacts note-taking...

CVE-2013-2244

Multiple cross-site scripting XSS vulnerabilities in lib/conditionlib.php in Moodle 2.4.x before 2.4.5 and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the conditional access rule value of a user field...