#Modern Workplace

  Microsoft recently released next version of  Windows 11 known as 22H2. This feature update comes with many new security capabilities and one of such capability is Enhanced Phishing Protection. As part of Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, Enhanced Phishing Protection helps in protecting Microsoft school or work passwords against phishing and unsafe usage on sites and apps. It currently supports the following 3 scenarios: 1. If users type their work or school password on any Chromium browser, into a site deemed malicious by Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, Enhanced Phishing Protection will alert them. It will also prompt them to change their password so attackers can't gain access to their account. 2. Reusing work or school passwords on sites and apps will prompt them to change their password. 3. Storing plaintext passwords in text editors such as Notepad or Office applications like Word, will result in a warning and a recommendation for removing the password from the file. If yo...

In my previous post on  How to enable and configure Web Content Filtering within Microsoft Defender for Endpoint , I touched upon some of the requirements that were needed for enabling Web Content filtering. One such requirement was enabling of Network Protection & Smart screen within Defender for endpoint. Let' start with Network Protection and understand what it is all about. Network protection is an attack surface reduction capability which helps in protecting devices from Internet-based events arising from accessing dangerous domains through applications, phishing scams, exploits, and other malicious content. With the help of Microsoft Defender SmartScreen, all outbound HTTP(s) traffic that attempt to connect to low-reputation sources (based on the domain or hostname) gets blocked. Network protection also extends the protection to the operating system as a whole. It provides web protection functionality in Edge, other supported browsers and non-browser applications. Additio...