Entra 🆔 News #72 → This week in Microsoft Entra
Passkeys in Entra and dynamic admin units are now generally available 🔑, Security Copilot comes to the Entra admin center 🛡️, new public previews and private previews for Entra SSE 🌐, and more! ✨
👋 Hi, Merill and Joshua here with this week’s roundup of the latest news on Microsoft Entra from around the globe 🌍.
Check out all the Entra related Ignite announcements in this edition. The good news is some of the recorded sessions are now available to watch, so add them to your playlist.
The Microsoft Entra product group is also running an AMA session to answer all your questions on the new announcements. Register to attend 👇.
Enjoy!
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⚡️ Microsoft
🏆 General Availability
Support for device-bound passkey in Microsoft Authenticator for iOS and Android • Microsoft
Now Generally Available with improved registration and sign-in experiences
Dynamic Administrative Units • Microsoft Learn
🔥 Public Preview
Security Copilot is now embedded in Microsoft Entra • Sarah Scott
What’s new in Microsoft’s Security Service Edge solution • Sinead O'Donovan
Microsoft partners for new SASE ecosystem • Abhijeet Kumar Sinha
🏁 Private Preview
Microsoft and Netskope: Unified, identity-centric security • Reshmi Yandapalli
📖 Read
Defeating Adversary-in-the-Middle phishing attacks • Alex Weinert
Microsoft Security Copilot - Adoption Hub • Microsoft
🎥 Watch Entra sessions from Ignite 2024
Secure access for any identity to any resource with Microsoft Entra | BRK313 • Alex Simons, Nichole Peterson
Secure access for your workforce with the new Microsoft Entra Suite | BRK314 (42 min) • Irina Nechaeva, Jef Kazimer, Melanie Maynes, George Barron, Walter Rowe
Security Innovation to Strengthen Cyber Defense in the Age of AI | GS07 (54 min) • Joy Chik (President, Microsoft Entra)
Go passwordless and boost cyber resilience with Yubico and Microsoft | ODFP992 (13 min) • Erik Parkkonen (Yubico)
📺 Watch
Introduction to passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID (11 min) • Calvin Lui (Product Manager, Authentication Experiences Team), Mayur Santani (Product Manager, Microsoft Authenticator)
How to configure Passkeys in Microsoft Entra ID (7 min) • Calvin Lui (Product Manager, Authentication Experiences Team), Mayur Santani (Product Manager, Microsoft Authenticator)
AI for identity and access with Microsoft Security Copilot and Microsoft Entra (2 min) • Diana Vicezar
📆 Upcoming Events
Tech Community Live: Microsoft Security edition - December 3, 2024
Registration required
7:00 a.m. PT - Ask Microsoft Anything: Security Copilot
8:00 a.m. PT - Ask Microsoft Anything: Microsoft Entra Suite
8:30 a.m. PT - Ask Microsoft Anything: Microsoft Defender for Cloud
9:00 a.m. PT - Ask Microsoft Anything: Security Service Edge (SSE)
9:30 a.m. PT - Ask Microsoft Anything: Microsoft Security Exposure Management
10:30 a.m. PT- Ask Microsoft Anything: Security for AI
From the community…
🚀 Most popular posts from last week
Entra Sign-In logs hidden gems • Sapir Federovsky
Protect your Tokens with Intune & Conditional Access • Arno van Dijk
Security made easy! Pre-provision FIDO2 keys for your users with PowerShell! • Per-Torben Sørensen
☀️ Learn
🧰 Workload ID
🌐 Private Access & Internet Access (GSA)
Multiple Entra App Proxies for different authentication requirements within the same app • Rakhesh Sasidharan
📦 Apps
Standard Logic App and authentication with EasyAuth • Janne Mattila
Understanding Microsoft Entra ID Application & Service Principal Management: Restore or Remove Recently Deleted Applications • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
🔑 Authentication
Beware Of Deceiving Authenticator Apps on Apple and Google Devices • Den Delimarsky
Mandatory MFA for Microsoft 365 Admin Center Connections from February 3, 2025 • Tony Redmond
🤖 DevOps & PowerShell
How to use Get-MgGroupMember in PowerShell • Ali Tajran
🚦 Conditional Access
🔐 Credential Management
Selfservice for hardware (OATH) tokens in Entra ID. • Jan Bakker
How to configure and use hardware TOTP • Nicolas D
Deploying On-premises Microsoft Entra Password Protection for Enhanced Security • Sreejith Reghunathan Pillai
📈 Reporting and Insights
🥷 Security
Microsoft Zero Trust Assessment Workshop • Andy Lombardo
Microsoft’s Simple Message at Ignite: It’s All About AI • Tony Redmond
Gaining Initial Access Part 1: How Do Attackers Find People to Target? • Andy Lombardo
Gaining Initial Access Part 2: Password Spray Attack Detection, Defense, and Execution • Andy Lombardo
How to disable Self-Service Password Reset for administrators • Lukas Beran
⚒️ Toolkit
Conditional Access Gallery – Point, Select, and Deploy in Minutes • Daniel Chronlund
pimctl - pimctl is a tool to manage Azure/Entra PIM activations and approvals from the terminal (alpha release) • Simon Gottschlag
🔥 Maester
Microsoft Admin Tool Demo with Maester, CMD.ms, & Conditional Access Documenter • Andy Lombardo
Terraform Module for Maester • Håvard Løkensgard
👨🏽💻 Merill’s corner
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