Microsoft 365 Data Governance has always been critical - but it's only getting more important! Richard talks to Nikki Chapple about her experiences working with companies trying to get their "data estate in order." That phrase is what Microsoft recommends before turning on tools like Copilot for M365. Nikki talks about how hard the goal of data security is - that it is just as tricky as any other security goal. Data security is an endless process that needs refining and work on routinely as new data and classes of data arrive in the organization. In the meantime, users are taking advantage of LLMs like ChatGPT for their work whether we want them to or not - so there is a need to act quickly to provide secure capabilities!

Links

• Data. Privacy, and Security for Microsoft Copilot for M365
• Exabeam Business Rewards vs Security Risks Report
• Microsoft 2024 Work Trend Index Report
• Microsoft Purview Data Security and Compliance Protections for Generative AI Apps
• Microsoft Copilot Studio for M365
• Entra Entitlement Management
• Shareable Links in OneDrive and SharePoint in M365
• Nikki's M365 Governance Blog
• All Things M365 Governance on YouTube

Recorded August 16, 2024

What does Windows Server 2025 bring to Active Directory? Richard chats with Orin Thomas about the new version of Windows Server coming and what to expect around Active Directory. Orin talks about how mature the Windows Server space is, so only incremental improvements are warranted, but they are important ones - like retiring NTLM once and for all. And when it comes to Active Directory, there are new secure features you're going to want, but you do need to up your functional level to get them, and that means getting to at least Server 2016 functional level first... then moving everything else. When was the last time you transferred a FSMO role? Orin also digs into the new certification practice options available, where instead of answering questions, you do the work and get evaluated - cool!

Links

• What's New in Server 2025
• Sandworm
• Active Directory FSMO Roles in Windows
• Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate
• Windows LAPS

Recorded August 6, 2024

Do you know how asymmetric encryption works? While at the Kansas City Developers Conference, Richard sat down with Eli Holderness to discuss many of the encryption technologies being used today—and the new options coming in the future! Eli talks about how symmetrical encryption and public key encryption have been the focus of modern encryption, especially on the web. But the ongoing security arms race means we have to keep tweaking encryption—what if we made a bigger leap? Asymmetric encryption offers huge potential - but there's still a long way to go!

Links

• Passwordless Identity with Eli Holderness
• Elliptic-Curve Cryptography
• Shor's Algorithm
• Isogeny Key Exchange
• Learning with Errors
• Chrome and Hybrid Kyber KEM
• liboqs
• Lets Encrypt

Recorded June 27, 2024