Microsoft’s latest announcements bring a host of licensing and pricing changes that can impact your planning for 2025 and beyond. In this blog post, we’ll run through the most critical updates—from annual plan price increases to new Team’s Phone rates and CoPilot’s new monthly billing options—so you can make informed decisions and communicate effectively with […]
Some of you out there might be thinking, “not another article on the end of passwords, we’ve been listening to this for years.” And to your credit, you are spot on. People have been telling a tale of the end of passwords for at least 5 years now, largely becoming a more popular tale with […]
If you want to provide secure access to your corporate data on personal smart phones without enrolling that device under full IT management, stay tuned because in this article, I am going to show you the exact policies you need to configure to protect your organization. Access on the Go When we think about users […]
Below are all of the latest feature updates coming to Microsoft 365 Automated Security Assessments mapped to the CIS Controls I am excited to announce the launch of an automated tool, CloudCapsule, I’ve been working on over the past year that automates your M365 security assessments against the CIS Controls. I started CloudCapsule because I saw […]
Did you know that users outside your organization can initiate Teams chats with other members of your team by default in Microsoft 365? Attackers are leveraging this to conduct sophisticated phishing attacks in Teams, impersonating a help desk to trick users into compromising their accounts or devices. In today’s article, I am going to show […]
If Microsoft 365 security feels very ad hoc and reactive to you today, stay tuned because in this blog I am going to show you a tool I built that allows you to scale your cybersecurity practice to focus on the preventative while also reducing your assessment time from hours or days to just minutes. […]
There are some subtle but potentially highly impactful changes coming to default retention for unlicensed OneDrive accounts you need to know. Classic Microsoft has come out with highly confusing support article so in this blog post I am going to break this down so you understand the implications. TLDR: Starting January 27, 2025, unlicensed OneDrive accounts for […]
1. Teams Interpreter A tool for Microsoft Teams that delivers “real-time, speech-to-speech” interpretation capabilities. Starting in early 2025, people using Teams for meetings will be able to use Interpreter to simulate their voices in up to nine languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=V0fweZp7QAXDWrVR&v=J1I-nReRTyc&feature=youtu.be 2. Microsoft Places Microsoft introduced […]
Today i am going to be recapping the M365 highlights from Microsoft Ignite, a conference you can spend 5 thousand dollars to attend to listen to Microsoft aggressively shove Copilot down your throat for 3 days in a row. With that being said, still some pretty cool announcements so lets dive in. These announcements are […]
When it comes to data protection, we usually throw out all of our security protections when external collaboration and guest users are added to the mix. Guest users can: Download files locally Access sensitive documents on insecure devices Do not even need to prove their identity (by default, setting dependent) In this article, I am going […]
By default in Microsoft 365 Users can register or join any device into your active device inventory in Entra. Additionally, a common method of maintaining persistence for hackers is to join a device to entra after initial user compromise to maintain persistence. In today’s article, I am going to show you my top policies for […]
Allowing users to access resources from any device is the equivalent of an airline company like United saying, “you know what, we are just going to let our pilots fly any plane they want. We don’t know if it is up to code. We don’t really know who is on the plane but they can […]
