Video discussion about VMware and their recent acquisition, security company Octarine. #Security #VMware #Octarine
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If you’re doing some compliance investigation work, you may need to search a user’s mailbox for specific words.
This is how To Search Email Content in Office 365 Security & Compliance for a specific user which sent email containing a specific word then export results.
Reference guides – Content search
Microsoft Docs Content Search
Microsoft Docs Export Search
Content Search : How to search a mailbox for specific keywords and export the data
Mircosoft 365 Admin Center -> Compliance Admin Center
Content Search > + New Search
New Search > Keywords “Blog” example > Specific Locations > Modify > Choose Users, Groups or Teams
Enter users name > Select > Choose
Done > Save > Save & Run > Save Search
This search will trigger a default alert email to be sent out
Next step, Export the results
Unable to preview results problem or export?
If you cannot preview, you need to add a role to the user account, eDiscovery Administrator role (Example) or eDiscovery Manager for specific cases / Compliance Admin / Compliance Data Administrator
You must sign out and sign in for the groups to take effect.
Now back to the search
After the you can see the preview, now you can click Export
Click Export > ReportsOnly or Export > Copy to clipboard export key > Download report > Install eDiscovery Export Tool
Export tool installs
Use the Export Key and Set a directory.
File Downloads
Now you can open the report exported
MS-101: Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security
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M365 Admin Portal > “Security & Compliance” > “Search”>”Audit log search” Learn more about searching the audit log
https://protection.office.com/unifiedauditlog
Audit log search, a great place to start regularly checking for unauthorised User Login Failed attempts. This example shows multiple attempts to login from various locations. None physically possible from this user based in the UK. We suspect there has been a breach where this email address / user name was previously registered. Thankfully, this is now only an Alias used these days on a domain we imported into the tenancy. In addition, we have features like MFA, and failed login attempt setting configured on all users.
There are no more than two attempts tried at each IP address logged. So we have avoided a user account being compromised by using a mix of, basic security login attempt policies, MFA enabled and an Alias.
Where can we see Failed login attempts
Audit Log Search
Audit Log Search > Set Activities / Dates > Search
Next apply a filter
Click >Filter Results> “Activity” = “UserLoginFailed”
After identifying the IP – Next Step, check the IPs out. https://whois.domaintools.com
A quick check on the details confirm it was not possible for one of our live users to be in the locations at the time of the failed logins and the IP addresses also weren’t blacklisted.
“78.140.7.9” – Russia
“203.147.83.159” – New Caledonia
“119.160.136.138” – Brunei
One attempt maybe just a one-off end user error, but multiple attempts and various locations something has been compromised. I would certainly suggest a quick change of password and recreate and App Passwords in use.
Check if the accounts have been pwned. A quick check to see if the account has be pwned https://haveibeenpwned.com/
In this case the account has previously had information “email address” & “Password” compromised.
Now going back to the IP address’s
This example located in Australia. Not blacklisted.
So what are the next options suggestions?
We could look at Conditional Access and block locations. However, that doesn’t block basic authentication (from my research, maybe wrong info).
So to help block any brute force basic authentication attempts, we could disable basic authentication, but is there any challenges? So before a blanket disable basic auth, legacy applications would need to be upgraded before disabling basic authentication. Note “Blocking Basic authentication will block app passwords in Exchange Online. For more information about app passwords, see Create an app password for Office 365.”.
AZ-500: Microsoft Azure Security Technologies
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Kubernetes in a production environment, and you need to apply a patch #Kubernetes #Security #Patching #Containers
You’re running Kubernetes in a production environment, and you need to apply a patch — perhaps to a commercial application, an open source component or even a container image. How long should it take to implement that patch in production? Thirty days? One day? One hour?
We have a storage account, “StorageV2 (general purpose v2)” and its can be accessed initially from all networks. We now want to restrict the storage access to an approved network location.
How?
Click on the storage account > Firewalls and virtual networks and click “selected networks”
You can allow access from virtual networks or allow access through the firewall. Example below adds a Virtual network name and an external IP range. Then click Save.
This post is looking at IT Security for the Enterprise. I have often visited new clients and reviewed the security landscape. The results are often surprising to the senior management. So the question is, does a business or brand need to review and plan IT Enterprise Security? The Sys Admin reports all the systems are all OK, the users are happy and the business hasn’t appeared on the news. So if you are hired as an IT Enterprise Security Architect, what does that mean and what value does this role bring to a business?
Take a step back and ask yourself, what is IT Enterprise Security? How can you understand the current IT Enterprise Security state? To learn about the IT enterprise security state, you need to pick and apply a security framework to a business. For example using a security framework like NIST gives us the ability to understand the security state of the business. This framework is a method to highlight information about the overall security state and which areas need investment and have room for improvement.
So how does the process start?
Prep Work, Review Core Areas:
What stage make up the core areas:
When you first enter a business unlock the knowledge.
Next work out how you would break into the business
Review and Protect
How would you know of an attack, an abnormality and how do you remediate?
Post to be continued – These are opinions of the author only.
Today I’m looking at Microsoft 365 Enterprise Mobility + Security E3 and E5 Licenses and trying to work out which licenses I need and what the differences are. I’ve reviewed the guide on features and pricing, visit compare-plans-and-pricing
There are four key areas for Enterprise Mobility + Security:
If you business it focused on Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 licenses but you need to save costs, its certainly worth reviewing what features your using and what is available / partially included in an Enterprise Mobility + Security E3 license. Microsoft would describe the differences as “Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 includes new and advanced security capabilities that make up our holistic and innovative approach to security for the mobile enterprise. Some E5 capabilities were previously only available as standalone products, such as Microsoft Cloud App Security, or as products in preview, such as Microsoft Azure Active Directory Identity Protection, Azure Active Directory Privileged Identity Management, and Azure Information Protection.”
A break down of the Key Additional Features in E5 and not in E3.
This is a quick break down of the additional features in the E5 license you don’t get in E3 currently. (Please check again, this is not a live feature list)
So does you business have any other 3rd party tools already providing the features of E5? It might be worth noting some components Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 can be purchased separately, but the logic is a suite gives more value in a bundle.
Another good option to get hands on and try the full E5 license, why not run a PoC to see if the features of Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 with a free Trial (90 days offered when I wrote this)?
I hope this post helped, additional information is available direct from the Microsoft Site.
Apologise if any information is incorrect, this is just a personal review and no way related to Microsoft.
Security and Compliance Admin Center in Office 365 you can create alert policys.
Todays challenge was to setup an Alert Policy so an admin is notifed if a user adds a file to OneDrive or SharePoint containing Malware.
Start in “Office 365 Security & Compliance > Alerts Dashboard > New Alert Policy
I started by creating an Alert, selecting Threat Management & High Severity
Set the Trigger “Detected malware in file”
Select the Admins to be notified. I set a daily limit notification limit of 5 so I’m not get overloaded with the same alert.
Then “Finish” you have the option to turn the policy on or off
View “Alert polices”
