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Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams users report files are missing or moved to the Recycle Bin after the recent Azure Active Directory outage this week. Since Tuesday, BleepingComputer has spoken to numerous Microsoft SharePoint administrators bombarded with client calls about missing files in their SharePoint folders.
Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Teams users report files are missing or moved to the Recycle Bin after the recent Azure Active Directory outage this week. Since Tuesday, BleepingComputer has spoken to numerous Microsoft SharePoint administrators bombarded with client calls about missing files in their SharePoint folders.
Starting at approximately 3:34 PM EST, users began reporting being unable to login to their Microsoft 365 accounts, Microsoft Teams, or access other Microsoft apps. "As a result of the issues currently facing Azure AAD, we are currently experiencing problems on the Microsoft Tech Community with login and authentication. This will result in users being unable to login and users already logged in getting unexpected errors as sessions timeout," posted a Microsoft Tech Community manager.
CoreView announced a new add-on tool to get even deeper insight into Microsoft Teams. "The Teams Advanced add-on for CoreSuite collects and organizes all available Teams data and presents usage and quality insights. CoreView enables IT professionals to understand and optimize their organization's productivity through this massive change."
Microsoft has said it will add end-to-end encryption for some one-to-one Teams calls later this year - and urged folks to move away from using passwords with Azure AD. The Teams improvements, announced at the tech giant's Ignite conference this week, will be available "To commercial customers in preview in the first half of this year." Video conferencing rival Zoom offers end-to-end encryption with a few caveats and additional steps, and that appears to be more or less the approach Microsoft will take, too.
As the challenges of smaller security teams are certainly different than with larger teams, these IT professionals must be more creative and pragmatic than their large enterprise counterparts, according to Cynet. From initial deployment to post-installation analytics, alerts and maintenance, the costs of new security solutions cover multiple areas.
In a new e-book recently published, CISOs with small security teams talk about the drivers for replacing their EDR/NGAV solutions with an Autonomous XDR solution and why they believe consolidation provides significant benefits to organization and team. Organizations keep adding more and more security solutions that extend visibility, yet these solutions need to be maintained, monitored, and managed, taking up quite a bit of the analyst's time.
Microsoft adds new security, privacy, and compliance features to the Microsoft Teams chat and collaboration solution, including end-to-end encryption support for one-on-one voice calls. Microsoft Teams is a cloud collaboration platform designed to allow an organization's team to stay organized and communicate via text, audio, and video, all in one place.
The eBook "5 Security Lessons for Small Security Teams for a Post-COVID19 Era" helps companies prepare for these new work dynamics. The practical insights and provided recommendations make this a very helpful guide for small security teams that feel the brunt of security on a daily basis and now need to add one more item to their security strategy planning and execution.
CircleCI introduced new platform updates to increase the control, protection, privacy, and confidence of today's engineering teams. "As cloud adoption increases and security concerns grow, we believe that teams shouldn't have to choose between speed or security. We empower them to have both by providing ways to create and manage reusable components, patterns, and processes," said Jim Rose, CircleCI CEO. "CircleCI's latest privacy tools will provide users with an efficient way to share their code and intellectual property across teams, while reducing the risk of revealing secrets and minimizing surface area for attack from bad actors."