Windows 10: Microsoft 365 Security Center reaches general availability

Brink · Mar 28, 2019

Last year at Ignite 2018 we announced Microsoft Threat Protection and demonstrated it using the Microsoft 365 security center which provides security professionals with a fully integrated and specialized workspace that enables them to manage and take full advantage of Microsoft 365 intelligent security solutions. Today we’re excited to announce that the Microsoft 365 security center (Sign in to your account) experience is now generally available and is providing customers with a world class platform and experience for securing the modern workplace across identity, devices, data, apps, and infrastructure.

What is the Microsoft 365 security center?
When we talk to customers about their requirements for security management, they generally ask for capabilities that provide:

Visibility into the organization’s security posture across their entire digital estate

Efficient management of the vast set of controls needed to secure their environment

Guidance that can help them achieve the maximum possible security posture

Today typical organizations attempt to address these requirements using a patchwork of dozens or more solutions coming from multiple vendors each of which provide varying user experiences, overlapping functionality, etc.

With Microsoft 365 security center we are addressing these challenges by providing our customers with a user experience that brings together many of our intelligent security solutions into a centralized location. The experience enables organizations to reduce security risks by providing them with the tools necessary to assess their current and historical security postures and determine the appropriate set of actions to mitigate future risks. These tools consist of rich dashboards, reports, and interactive experiences like Microsoft Secure Score, each of which are designed to provide security administrators with the tools they need to drive maximum security posture improvements. While the current release of the experience is primarily focused on satisfying the requirements of security administrators, it also provides integrated experiences for compliance data administrators and security operators (SecOps), with additional capabilities coming later this year.

A quick tour of Microsoft 365 security center
The Microsoft 365 security center isn’t just organized around the products that make up Microsoft Threat Protection. Instead, it renders them in a completely new way – one that’s focused on the entities that our customers need to secure across their entire digital estate. This means the experience is organized around the concepts of: Identity, Endpoints, User Data, Cloud App and Infrastructure, and not the underlying products that help secure them. This provides security administrators with end-to-end security insights, and management within a fully integrated Microsoft 365 security solution without needing to think about the specific boundaries between the products running behind the scenes.

Home page
By focusing the Microsoft 365 security center design around the entities our customers want to secure, we blur the lines between the underlying products as is evident on the Home page, where you can clearly see how we’ve abstracted away all product boundaries. On your Home page (i.e. Dashboard) you will find a selection of the top cards that can help security administrators quickly get visibility across the breadth of entities they need to secure, the issues they need to be aware of and inevitably what requires attention.

Security administrators will find the homepage a perfect place to start their day and for those that also manage compliance within their organization they’ll appreciate that we also offer a specialized compliance related workspace with Microsoft 365 compliance center which uses the exact same design patterns and concepts as Microsoft 365 security center.

This common design is also shared with the Microsoft 365 admin center which is the single place for admins to get started with Microsoft 365, discover the breadth of management capabilities, and the new experiences available to them.

Alerts page
While security administrators aren’t responsible for incident response, they’re often expected to know what types of alerts are currently active and have occurred in the past so they can better prepare for issues in the future. To do this they need centralized alert visibility across their entire Microsoft 365 security ecosystem, whether the alert is related to Office 365, Windows, Microsoft Cloud App Security, etc. The Alerts page shown below, as well as the cards and reports within the Monitoring & Reports page, do exactly this and will help them identify posture improvements that will help them better protected their organization in the future.

Monitoring & Reports page
The Home page is a great way to get access to the top cards and reports that will help security administrators conduct their day-to-day activities, but a more comprehensive set of reports can be found on the Monitoring & Reports page. Here you’ll find dozens of reports across Identity, Devices, Data, Apps and Infrastructure – now all available in a single location.

Each report is exposed by a card that provides security administrators with a top-level view. For example, the Devices with Active malware card provides the security administrator a quick way to quantify how many devices are currently impacted by malware.

From here the security administrator can drill into the report and access more details as shown in the image below. These reports can easily be filtered and grouped by a variety of specific data types.

The Monitoring & Reports space will also include advanced workflow experiences to help security administrators make what in the past were challenging decisions. The first workflow example we are shipping today is to help with the configuration of Attack surface reduction rules. With it security administrators can disable operating system and application functionality that are not being used for business purposes and would likely prove useful to attackers.

With this workflow the security administrator can quickly monitor and assess the impact of enabling various Attack surface reduction rules across all their users and devices. If they determine there is no impact, they can be confident in deploying the rules broadly across their organization. If they determine there is some level impact they can identify where and then just target the appropriate users and devices. With this workflow what was once quite challenging and required a do it yourself project, has now been made relatively easy.

Microsoft Secure Score
Microsoft Secure Score provides organizations with increased visibility and control over their security posture by discovering opportunities that will help them improve security across their organization. These opportunities are surfaced as recommendations that are coupled with the guidance and the workflows necessary to help security administrators implement each recommendation and best practice. The more improvements you make the bigger your score!

This experience previously shipped as a stand-alone console, but it’s now been integrated directly into the Microsoft 365 security center. As shown in the previous images, Microsoft Secure Score will have a dashboard card right on the Home page, and users can drill into the full-blown experience directly from there. Alternatively, they can select the Secure Score item from the navigation.

For those of you who are familiar with Microsoft Secure Score you’ll notice that we’ve reorganized the user experience. Based upon customer feedback, we moved from a product-based way of organizing scores (e.g. Windows, Office) to one that maps to the Microsoft Threat Protection entities. This means scores are now organized around the concepts of Identity, Devices, Data, Apps, and Infrastructure.

There is a long list of additional Microsoft Secure Score improvements that we could tell you about today, but we’ll leave those for a dedicated blog that is planned for the coming weeks. In the meantime, log into Microsoft 365 security center and check it out for yourself!

Permissions
Today we focused much of our discussion around the security administrator, as that’s the primary persona we focused on for this release, but there are more experiences available including those for Compliance Data Administrators and Security Operators. For Compliance Data Administrators we provide a rich experience for classifying data on the Classification page, and then for Security Operators we currently have the Alerts page which provides them with an integrated view of the alerts across each of the Microsoft 365 security solutions. To support the access control requirements for the many personas types that will be using Microsoft 365 security center we have included role-based access control (RBAC) capabilities that can be managed on the Permissions page.

Eligibility
To experience the new Microsoft 365 security center and Microsoft 365 compliance center, your organization must have a subscription to Microsoft 365 E3 or E5, or a Volume Licensing equivalent (which consists of Office 365 Enterprise E3 or E5, Enterprise Mobility + Security E3 or E5, and Windows 10 Enterprise E3/E5). Our plan is to expand access to additional subscriptions and licenses later in the year.

Wrapping it up
So, there you have it – a quick tour of our new Microsoft 365 security center experiences for the security administrator. We encourage eligible customers to start using it right away and for those that aren’t, we would love to see you trialing one or more of the products so you can begin evaluating it. You can learn more about the new Microsoft 365 security center in our technical supporting document.
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Brink · Mar 28, 2019

Introducing new Microsoft 365 security center and compliance center

In the past few years, we have been heavily investing in the security and compliance areas to help organizations safeguard their digital estate and achieve compliance. According to recent customer research, we heard that while security and compliance are both top of mind areas in data protection, most organizations have different teams working in these two spaces. To empower your security and compliance professionals to work more efficiently in dedicated platforms, we are excited to announce the availability of Microsoft 365 security center (security.microsoft.com) and Microsoft 365 compliance center (compliance.microsoft.com).

The new specialized workspaces enable your security and compliance teams to have centralized management across your Microsoft 365 services, bringing together Office 365, Windows 10, and Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS), with several Azure capabilities.

In both specialized centers, you can easily find actionable insights, alerts, and scores to help you understand your security and compliance risks and leverage artificial intelligence to strengthen your security and compliance posture. You can find more details about each center in the following paragraphs.

Microsoft 365 security center

The new Microsoft 365 security center provides security administrators and other risk management professionals with a centralized hub and specialized workspace that enables them to manage and take full advantage of Microsoft 365 intelligent security solutions for identity and access management, threat protection, information protection, and security management. With it they’ll gain the visibility, control, and guidance necessary to understand and act on the threats that their organization is facing today, have faced in the past, and may face in the future.

This new workspace is organized around the products that make up Microsoft Threat Protection by rendering them in a completely new way, one that’s focused on the entities that our customers must secure across their entire digital estate. We have consolidated the experience across Microsoft 365 products and designed around the concepts of Identity, Endpoints, User Data, Cloud App and Infrastructure, and not the underlying products that help secure them. This enables end-to-end security insights and management and paves the way for a comprehensive Microsoft 365 security solution.

In addition, the Microsoft 365 security center enables organizations to reduce security risks by providing them with the tools necessary to assess their current and historical security postures and to determine the appropriate set of actions to take to mitigate future risks. These tools consist of rich dashboards, reports, and interactive experiences like Microsoft Secure Score, each of which are designed to provide security administrators with the visibility, controls, and guidance they need to drive maximum security posture improvements. Microsoft 365 security center also provides experiences for security operators (SecOps) through the integration of incident response capabilities such as a centralized alerts view and hunting capabilities which can be used to perform ad-hoc investigations.

Microsoft 365 compliance center

The new Microsoft 365 compliance center is a specialized workspace for your compliance, privacy, and risk management professionals. In the new center, you can assess your compliance risks through Compliance Manager, protect and govern your data with sensitivity and retention labels, respond to regulatory requests like Data Subject Requests, and access to more other compliance and privacy solutions.

The new experience helps you reduce compliance risks and protect your digital estate more easily and effectively with three new insights:

With the Compliance Manager integration, Microsoft 365 compliance center provides you with visibility into your compliance posture against key regulations and standards like the GDPR, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, and more on the homepage. You can then perform risk assessments and follow step-by-step guidance to enhance your compliance and privacy controls.

Additionally, to help you label data more accurately, the new Microsoft 365 Label Analytics preview can enable you to analyze and validate how sensitivity and retention labels are being used beyond your Office 365 workloads.

We also brought in the Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) insights into Microsoft 365 compliance center to help you identify compliance risks across applications, discover shadow IT, and monitor employees’ non-compliant behaviors.

We will be gradually rolling out the new experience from the end of January, and the rollout will be completed worldwide by the end of March. Once this new experience is rolled out, you can access it by visiting security.microsoft.com or compliance.microsoft.com or from the Microsoft 365 admin center.

You can learn more about the new Microsoft 365 security center and Microsoft 365 compliance center in our technical supporting document.
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Brink · Mar 28, 2019

Announcing General Availability of Microsoft 365 Business apps

Today we’re announcing general availability of new solutions purpose-built for small and medium-sized businesses with up to 300 employees. Available worldwide today, Microsoft 365 Business includes the Office 365 suite of productivity and collaboration tools, as well as device management and security tools to safeguard company information across Windows 10 PCs, mobile devices, and apps. It is an integrated solution designed to simplify IT for small and medium-sized businesses.

We’re also announcing general availability of three new business apps—Microsoft Connections, Microsoft Listings, and Microsoft Invoicing—which join Microsoft Bookings, Outlook Customer Manager, and MileIQ to create a suite of capabilities to help small businesses grow and thrive. These new apps are now available in Microsoft 365 Business and Office 365 Business Premium for customers in the U.S., U.K., and Canada.

In addition, Microsoft StaffHub, an app to help Firstline Workers manage their workday, is now included in Microsoft 365 Business and Office 365 Business Premium subscriptions.

Become a modern workplace

Today’s modern, global workplace is changing, which brings tremendous opportunities and challenges for businesses of all sizes. Businesses must meet the needs of a five-generation workforce, contend with an increasingly complex cyberthreat landscape, and innovate quickly to meet evolving customer expectations.

At the same time, small and medium-sized customers tell us they want solutions that are easy to manage and maintain. Often small business owners find technology options to be complex and costly, leading many to make do with a patchwork of services or defer investments altogether. Such approaches compromise business productivity and introduce security vulnerabilities, which may be one reason why 43 percent of all cyber-attacks last year targeted companies with fewer than 100 employees.

Safeguard your business

Microsoft 365 Business is built to deliver the productivity tools and security services businesses need in a single, simple-to-manage product. It safeguards company information, extending security across users, apps, and devices. It helps ensure PCs are up to date and secure, helping prevent security vulnerabilities that cyber-thieves often exploit. It also provides protection for company information across devices, with the ability to remove company data from lost or stolen devices.

Empower your people

Microsoft 365 Business delivers the productivity and collaboration tools businesses need to help their people be their most productive. It includes the suite of Office 365 productivity and collaboration apps, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, as well as Outlook for email; SharePoint and OneDrive for sharing files with customers, co-workers, and suppliers; and Microsoft Teams for chat-based teamwork.

Simplify your IT management

Microsoft 365 Business is designed to reduce the complexity and costs of managing technology for businesses and their IT partners. It offers simple setup and management, so business owners and their teams can put more of their time and energy toward building their businesses. From a single console, you can quickly set up new employees, configure device security policies, and manage user identity and access, as well as ensure all your people are on the most up-to-date versions of Windows 10 and Office. And the single per-user, per-month subscription streamlines costs and simplifies management.

Microsoft is committed to helping empower and safeguard small and medium-sized businesses across the globe. To learn more about Microsoft 365 Business, contact your Microsoft Partner or visit a Microsoft Store.

Acquire customers and nurture business growth with three new apps

Today, we are also making available three new apps to help small businesses acquire new customers, increase revenue, and accelerate billing and receivables.

Microsoft Connections lets businesses send professional-looking marketing emails that showcase their brand and drive sales.

Microsoft Listings helps businesses acquire new customers and build their brand by getting their business listed on Facebook, Google, Bing, and Yelp.

Microsoft Invoicing provides estimate and invoicing tools that help accelerate payment and manage cash flow.

These new business apps can be managed centrally from the Business center. They build upon three business apps from Office 365 already available:

Bookings simplifies the process of scheduling and managing customer appointments.

Outlook Customer Manager provides simple customer management for small businesses, right within Outlook.

MileIQ offers a smarter way to track mileage, with automatic mileage logging, easy classification as business or personal, and comprehensive reporting.

Together, these apps form a toolkit for small business owners to run and grow their businesses. You can learn more about these apps in today’s business apps from Office 365 announcement.

Give Firstline Workers the tools they need to do their best work with StaffHub

Firstline Workers make up much of the global workforce and are the heart of many small and medium-sized businesses. StaffHub is a purpose-built app to help Firstline Workers manage their workday, allowing business owners and employees to easily create and manage schedules, assign and complete tasks, and communicate with each other.
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See also: Introducing Office 365 business apps Office - Windows 10 Forums

Guru Kiran G · Mar 28, 2019

Windows keeps turning off the security center.

Hi Maninder,

I suggest you to follow the steps below and check if it helps.

Press Windows key + R and type Services.msc then hit enter.

Services Console will appear.

Find Security Center Service on the right details pane > right click it choose properties >

Security Center Properties should appear > on the General Tab

set start-up type to automatic (Delayed start)

On service Status Stop and then Start.

If this does not works & error still continues then there are more chances that your system is infected

Let us know the status of the issue in regards with Security Center. Your reply is important to assist you further.

Regards,

Guru Kiran

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