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Monday, December 19, 2016

A Practical Overview of Office 365 Advanced Security Management - Part 1
Introduction & Audit Logs

In June 2016, Microsoft released its first iteration of Office 365 Advanced Security Management, a new capability within the Office 365 platform that allows organizations to go above and beyond the typical security management features that let them secure users, permissions, content and apps. In September the team added the Productivity App Discovery feature, and in October the solution continued to progress with additional capabilities to manage app permissions.

This multi-part blog series will look at how to use the features that make up Advanced Security Management and share some technical details that you will hopefully find helpful.

In part 1 of this series we introduce Advanced Security Management and share technical details about how it works with the Office 365 Unified Audit Log.
Let's jump in...

SharePoint 2010 Security Patches - How Vulnerable Are You?
UPDATED: December 2016

YES, this blog post is about SharePoint 2010! 

YES, SharePoint 2010 is old, over 6 years old actually. 
YES, its no longer officially supported by Microsoft, without very specific Premiere Support that is.
YES, we still see a lot of it out there!
YES, if you're going to continue to stick with SharePoint 2010 for now, you must keep current with security patches!

One of the most common security issues we see with SharePoint 2010 farms is that administrators have not kept up with security patches and updates.  This not only makes it difficult to support and maintain the environment, but it also opens your farm up to security vulnerabilities - security vulnerabilities that have already been fixed! 

This article reviews all SharePoint 2010 security updates that have been released in the last 5+ years since Service Pack 1, and discusses the importance of keeping up to date with those patches.

Sunday, December 4, 2016

SharePoint Saturday Ottawa: How Secure is My Data in Office 365? [Updated Slides]

Thanks to everyone that attended my session in Ottawa this weekend. There were some good questions and I hope everyone found it helpful. Please let me know if you have any questions.  For those folks who think that Office 365 is not secure, please read this previous post and my slides carefully and please reach out with questions!

You can also find another post of mine with some discussion about just how secure your data is in Office 365 here: http://www.trustsharepoint.com/2016/10/how-secure-is-my-data-in-office-365.html.

My most up to date slides, which I presented this past weekend, can be found here:



Enjoy!
-Antonio