by Contributed | Dec 15, 2020 | Technology
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Howdy folks,
Today we are announcing the public preview of password management and autofill capability in the Microsoft Authenticator app. For any sites or apps you visit on your mobile device, Authenticator will help you autofill strong passwords without having to remember them. These passwords can be synced across mobile and desktop, so you can seamlessly autofill passwords as you move across devices. This is currently only available for Microsoft accounts (MSA) and not for Azure AD based work or school accounts.
Rajat Luthra, one of our program managers in the Identity team, has written a guest blog post diving into details of this new capability. You can see his blog post below.
As always, we’d love to hear from you. Please let us know what you think in the comments below or on the Azure AD feedback forum.
Best regards,
Alex Simons (@Alex_A_Simons)
Corporate VP of Program Management
Microsoft Identity Division
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Hi everyone!
I’m excited to share that Microsoft Authenticator can now securely store and autofill passwords on apps and sites you visit on your mobile device. Once you make Authenticator an autofill provider, it will offer to save your passwords when you enter them on a site or app’s login page. Your synced passwords are protected on mobile with multi-factor authentication. These passwords are synced using your Microsoft account (outlook.com, hotmail.com, live.com, etc.), making them also available on your desktop with Microsoft Edge and the new Google Chrome extension.
While passwordless and multi-factor authentication is the way to go for security, we understand many sites still require passwords and some don’t even support multi-factor authentication. In a previous blog, we showed how no human generated password can be unique enough to beat attackers. That’s where Authenticator can help! Since you no longer need to remember passwords, Authenticator can autofill complex and unique passwords for you.
Here’s a sneak peek of autofill experience on iOS. A similar experience exists for Android.
When you visit a site or app for which you have saved a password, Authenticator offers to autofill it.
When you visit a site or app where your username and password is not saved, “Passwords” text appears on top of keyboard, clicking on which lets you save password in Authenticator.
Getting started
To use the autofill feature and sync passwords, use your Microsoft account (MSA) and follow these simple steps. We’ve provided iOS screenshots below – the feature is available on both iOS and Android.
- Open your Authenticator app, go to Settings –> Beta –> Autofill, and turn the toggle ON. Once you toggle ON Autofill in Settings, the Passwords tab will appear.
- Then, go to the Passwords tab, and sign-in using your Microsoft account or sync passwords from a Microsoft account already added to your Authenticator app.
- Finally, make Authenticator the default autofill provider on your phone.
- iOS: Open Settings –> Search for “Autofill Passwords” –> Click on “Autofill Passwords” –> Select “Authenticator”
- Android: Open Settings –> Search for “Autofill” –> Select “Auto-fill service” –> Click on “Auto-fill service” on next screen –> Select “Authenticator”
- You can sync and autofill these passwords in Microsoft Edge. If you also use Google Chrome on desktop, you can sync and autofill the same passwords using the Google Chrome extension.
Prerequisites
Autofill experience is rolling out in Authenticator app on iOS (iOS 12.0 and above) and Android (Android 6.0 and above). To learn more about the autofill feature, visit our FAQs page.
Autofill only works with Microsoft accounts (MSA), and is currently disabled for enterprise users who are using the Authenticator app for Phone sign-in or multi-factor authentication on their enterprise accounts. To allow enterprise users to use this feature on their Authenticator app, click here.
We look forward to your feedback!
Thanks,
Rajat Luthra (@_luthrarajat)
Senior Program Manager
Microsoft Identity Security & Protection
by Contributed | Dec 15, 2020 | Technology
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As we wrap up the end of the year, I wanted to share my gratitude for all the partners that have contributed in helping our customers rapidly enable a secure remote workforce. From securing applications to rolling out passwordless solutions or ensuring seamless collaboration across organizations, our partners have been critical in helping our customers adapt to a new way of work.
We built Microsoft identity as a platform to bring together all your tools, apps, and services—whether or not we built them—to allow you to deliver better experiences for you and your employees. We now have over 3,400 applications in our Azure AD app gallery and deep partner integrations across categories.
We’ve seen amazing progress in our partner ecosystem and wanted to share 5 recent integrations with partners as we wrap 2020.
Simplifying identity management and access to your apps
As employees continue to work remotely, they need secure, seamless access to all types of applications from cloud apps to on-premises apps. That’s why we continue to partner with software providers to integrate with Azure AD to simplify and secure application access. Last month we added over 52 new federated applications and 9 new provisioning connectors in our Azure AD app gallery for you to quickly enable single sign-on and automate user provisioning.
Hashicorp Terraform SSO
One new federated application that has been recently added to our Azure AD app gallery is Terraform Cloud from Hashicorp. Terraform Cloud provides infrastructure automation-as-a-service for the open source project Terraform. Many of our customers have adopted Terraform as a mechanism to automate the provisioning of resources in their Azure environments. Terraform Cloud helps customers manage infrastructure provisioning, collaborate across teams, and provide governance and security across an organization. By integrating with Azure AD, Terraform Cloud customers can easily secure and manage organizational access to their Terraform environment. Users can get the convenience of single sign-on for Terraform Cloud, and admins can assign each user to the Terraform Cloud team with the appropriate permissions for their role in minutes. You can learn more and sign up for Terraform Cloud for free at terraform.io/cloud.
Adobe rolls out support for SCIM-based provisioning
At Microsoft Ignite, Adobe announced a private preview of SCIM standard-based app provisioning integration for its core Adobe Identity Management platform. The updated admin experience makes it easier to manage user lifecycles across Adobe Creative Cloud, Adobe Document Cloud, and Adobe Experience Cloud. We are excited to announce that this integration is now publicly available for all Adobe and Azure AD customers. Get started setting this up by going to the documentation here.
Protect legacy applications through new secure hybrid access partnerships
To help customers secure and manage access to their legacy authentication-based apps, we continue to expand our secure hybrid access partnerships. Our secure hybrid access partnerships allow our customers to use their existing application delivery networks, VPNs and software defined perimeter solutions to secure access to legacy applications.
Pulse Secure SSO
One new solution that we recently added is Pulse Connect Secure. Pulse Connect Secure is a VPN solution that provides secure, authenticated access for remote and mobile users from any web-enabled device to corporate resources. With our integration, employees can easily sign-in to Pulse Connect Secure with their Azure AD credentials to access legacy application and admins can secure access to Pulse Connect Secure.
Enabling the move to passwordless
Weak passwords are a vulnerable attack vector for bad actors, which is why we are such strong advocates of passwordless technologies. According to Forrester, passwordless technology is top security trend that customers are evaluating to ensure secure yet easy to use experiences. To help customers adopt passwordless methods, including FIDO2 security keys, we’ve worked with hardware partners like Yubico to pilot a program to accelerate deployment of passwordless solutions through our services partners.
Yubico Passwordless Pilot Program
Services partners like System Integrators are an important catalyst to help customers accelerate their passwordless deployment. That’s why we’ve partnered with Yubico to provide services partners the ability to nominate their customers to pilot YubiKeys. Services partners can leverage our joint pilot program and receive 25 YubiKeys to deploy with customers. Here’s what one partner, Metsys, who has participated in the pilot program and deployed YubiKeys for Groupe Bel had to say:
“The passwordless campaign run by Microsoft and Yubico is the opportunity to show our customers the benefits of the YubiKeys in the Microsoft environment: a simplified user experience for a maximum level of security”- Laurent Cayatte, President of Metsys
New FIDO2 security keys from VinCSS
We are always seeking new partnerships with FIDO2 security key vendors who enhance our ability to provide customers with passwordless authentication options. We’ve recently added VinCSS, the cybersecurity affiliate of VinGroup in Vietnam, to our list of FIDO2 security key vendors that are compatible with our passwordless experience. With this latest addition, customers in Vietnam and Asia Pacific have another FIDO2 solution to go passwordless.
See you next year!
Look out next month for another update on how our partners are contributing to help enable a secure remote workforce and ensuring seamless access to all your apps and resources. Be sure to check out the Azure AD partner page to learn more about all the partnerships we have to help you with solving your identity needs.
Have a great holiday season and Happy New Year!
Best Regards,
Sue Bohn
Partner Director of Program Management
Microsoft Identity Division
by Contributed | Dec 15, 2020 | Technology
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Sync Up is your monthly podcast hosted by the OneDrive team taking you behind the scenes of OneDrive, shedding light on how OneDrive connects you to all your files in Microsoft 365 so you can share and work together from anywhere. You will hear from experts behind the design and development of OneDrive, as well as customers and Microsoft MVPs. Each episode will also give you news and announcements, special topics of discussion, and best practices for your OneDrive experience.
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In this year’s final episode, we look back over 2020, discussing product highlights, our team’s learnings and achievements, and what are looking forward to for 2021. This month, cohosts Ankita Kirti and Jason Moore talk with Randy Wong. Principal PM Manager, responsible for customer success, sharing, and collaboration. OneDrive played a critical role for customers all over the world this year in essential jobs in governments, schools, pharmaceutical companies and more. We also share other important learning lessons from this year, including our focus on empathy, health, gratitude, and Jason’s “No Meetings Friday” policy.
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Jason Moore is the principal group program manager for OneDrive and the Microsoft 365 files experience. He loves files, folders, and metadata. Twitter: @jasmo
Ankita Kirti is a product manager on the Microsoft 365 product marketing team responsible for OneDrive for Business. Twitter: @Ankita_Kirti21
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Be sure to visit our show page to hear all the episodes, access the show notes, and get bonus content. And stay connected to the OneDrive community blog where we’ll share more information per episode, guest insights, and take any questions from our listeners and OneDrive users. We, too, welcome your ideas for future episodes topics and segments. Keep the discussion going in comments below.
As you can see, we continue to evolve OneDrive as a place to access, share, and collaborate on all your files in Office 365, keeping them protected and readily accessible on all your devices, anywhere. We, at OneDrive, will shine a recurring light on the importance of you, the user. We will continue working to make OneDrive and related apps more approachable. The OneDrive team wants you to unleash your creativity. And we will do this, together, one episode at a time.
Thanks for your time reading and listening to all things OneDrive,
Ankita Kirti – OneDrive | Microsoft
by Contributed | Dec 15, 2020 | Technology
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by Scott Muniz | Dec 15, 2020 | Security, Technology
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