Microsoft 365: Information Barriers (IB) upgrading from IB v1 to IB v2 with new capabilities

Information Barriers (IB) V2 brings new capabilities including larger segment scale support, multi-segment support, and flexible people discoverability etc. Existing IB v1 tenants require an upgrade to IB v2 to take advantage of these new capabilities. This roadmap item is intended only for all IB v1 customers. All other customers will get IB v2 capabilities when they enable IB in their tenants.

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Microsoft Defender for Office 365: Built-in Protection Time of Click URL Email Protection

Last year, we enabled Built-in-Protection in Defender for Office 365 by default for all new and existing Defender for Office 365 customers. Specifically, it added a base level of Safe Links and Safe Attachment protections – delivery time file and URL detonation as well as time of click protection across email, Teams, and Office workloads.

We are now enabling the final remaining aspect of the built-in protection policy: SafeLinks URL time of click email protections.

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Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel

We’ve released updates to the following update channel for Microsoft 365 Apps:

  • Current Channel

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Microsoft 365 App: Customize App Bar

This feature enables users to pin and unpin apps to the App Bar on the side of the Microsoft 365 Web and Desktop App.

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Office App: Idle session timeout for Microsoft 365 web apps for Gov

Idle session timeout feature allows IT admins to configure a tenant-wide timeout value based on which users get automatically signed out after a period of inactivity on Microsoft 365 web apps. This feature is an improvement over, and will eventually replace, current idle timeout settings in Outlook Web App (OWA) and SharePoint Online (SPO).

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Data Loss Prevention – Surface existing non-Microsoft DLP policies with the migration assistant

Microsoft Purview Data Loss Prevention migration assistant helps you transfer your non-Microsoft existing DLP policies to the Microsoft Purview DLP with minimal effort. This tool will automatically detect your policy configurations and create equivalent policies in the Microsoft Purview DLP environment. The v1 of the tool supports conversion of Symantec DLP policies only.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Improved alert filtering

The update offers analysts and investigators the ability to filter out any activity that was already reviewed in a past alert for a user so they can focus their review on new activities that may lead to a data security incident. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Sequence detection starting with downloads from third-party sites

Admins can configure the new sequence feature to detect risky user actions that start with downloading from third-party domains, such as box.com or dropbox.com. This can help security teams gain visibility into actions that take place in their multi-cloud environments that may lead to a data security incident. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – Enhancements to the unusual activity booster detection

Today, admins can enable the risk score booster “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day”. With this update, the model to detect unusual activity will be enhanced to improve the ability to detect when a user’s activity is unusual compared to their historical norms. If an admin has opted-in to the “Activity is above user’s usual activity for that day” risk score booster in settings, the organization might see fewer activities with the risk score booster. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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Microsoft Purview compliance portal: Insider Risk Management – File archiving as obfuscation

Admins can configure policies and leverage sequence detection to detect file archiving actions taken by users that potentially obfuscate their data exfiltration activities. This can provide greater visibility into a series of connected activities that might be performed to evade detection of data exfiltration that could lead to a security incident. Microsoft Purview Insider Risk Management correlates various signals to identify potential malicious or inadvertent insider risks, such as IP theft, data leakage, and security violations. Insider Risk Management enables customers to create policies to manage security and compliance. Built with privacy by design, users are pseudonymized by default, and role-based access controls and audit logs are in place to help ensure user-level privacy.

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