With the ever-increasing sophistication of cyber-attacks, the increasing use of cloud-based services, and the proliferation of mobile devices, it’s essential th
🔐 In today's digital age, with cyber-attacks growing more sophisticated, the use of cloud services increasing, and mobile devices proliferating, securing access for all identities has never been more crucial. 📢 Microsoft announces feature releases for Jan-Mar 2024, enhancing security across Microsoft Entra products:
✅ Microsoft Entra ID ✅ ID Governance ✅ External ID ✅ Permissions Management ✅ Workload ID
Key Changes and Action Items:
Azure AD Graph Retirement:
Apps created after June 30, 2024 will be blocked from using Azure AD Graph APIs.
Action: Migrate affected apps to Microsoft Graph before June 2025.
Action: Migrate to cloud-based Azure MFA with the Migration Utility.
Conditional Access for Risk-Based Policies:
Legacy user and sign-in risk policies will be retired.
Action: Start migrating to Conditional Access. Creation of new legacy risk policies will be disabled May 1, 2024, and editing capabilities disabled July 1, 2024.
Other Notable New Features:
Microsoft Entra Identity Protection:
Real-time threat intelligence
New Suspicious API Traffic user risk detection
Integration with the Azure Mobile App
Microsoft Entra Workload Identities:
Soft delete capability for Managed Service Identity
Additional Changes:
Updates to My Apps Secure Sign-in Extension
Changes to Dynamic Group Rule Builder
Conditional Access 'Locations' condition updates
Change Password in My Security Info replacing legacy experience