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New Security and Compliance add-ons for Microsoft 365 Business Premium – Enterprise security without Enterprise prices
Small and medium businesses face the same cybersecurity threats as enterprises – but rarely have the same budgets. Microsoft is addressing this gap with three new add-ons for Microsoft 365 Business Premium, available from September 2025. These add-ons deliver enterprise-level protection at SMB-friendly prices: Microsoft Defender Suite for Business Premium – $10/user/month End-to-end security across… Read More »
The great TLS certificate revolution – From 398 to 47-days lifetime
Prepare your certificates for the 47-day future with automated certificate management TLS certificate lifetimes are officially shrinking from 398 days to just 47 days by 15. March 2029, making automated certificate management not just a convenience but an absolute necessity. Organizations that don’t embrace automation will face operational chaos, security risks, and inevitable outages. The… Read More »
Microsoft introduces Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat and Copilot in Microsoft 365 Personal and Family
Microsoft has just unveiled the Microsoft 365 Copilot Chat, a secure, web grounded GPT-4o-powered chat experience for work and education that is accessible though web, Teams and Outlook. At the same time Microsoft has made Copilot in Microsoft 365 available for Microsoft 365 Family and Personal subscription owners, who can utilize the integrated Microsoft 365… Read More »
Microsoft enforcement of mandatory MFA
As part of the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative Microsoft have started enforcing the use of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for all users when accessing certain portals and services. First in line to be included are Azure portals and services, with Microsoft 365 following in 2025. Enforcement phases Beginning October 2024, Microsoft started phase 1, where MFA… Read More »
Microsoft rebrands Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID
Together with the introduction of several new security products, dashboards and capabilities, Microsoft today announced the rebranding of Azure Active Directory (AD) to Microsoft Entra ID.
Trusting MFA and device state for Azure AD external users
Azure Active Directory offers the ability to trust MFA and device compliance claims from other Azure AD tenants. Enabling MFA trust with another tenant streamlines the sign-in process for B2B collaboration users and enables access for B2B direct connect users. If you want to allow B2B direct connect with an external organization and your Conditional… Read More »
EU Parliament concludes political agreement on cybersecurity (NIS2)
The EU Parliament has on 13 MAY 2022 entered into a political agreement to approve the EU Directive 2020/0359 (called “NIS2”), containing new rules for cyber- and information security, which will affect a large number of European companies, authorities, and their supply chain. The final legal text is expected to be adopted by the end… Read More »
How to use Public Key Authentication with PuTTY SSH Client
PuTTY is an open source SSH and telnet client, originally developed for Microsoft Windows by a British programmer Simon Tatham. In addition to the SSH client, the development program includes the PuTTY Key Generator, which is a utility for generating RSA and DSA key pairs to enable more secure communication and passwordless authentication when accessing… Read More »
Windows update changes Group Policy Security Filtering (MS16-072)
With the 14. June 2016 patches, Microsoft released a Windows update that changes how Security Filtering is processed for Group Policies, and this change may cause group policies to fail on company computers. To solve the potential issue, follow the instructions below and ensure to apply one of the recommended resolution steps. MS16-072: Security update… Read More »