By Monilee Keller, Vice President, Product Management

Welcome to the September 2024 edition of Partner Center Technical Corner. This month, we are excited to highlight our actions to protect identities and secrets, along with several recently released experience improvements for our partners. As always, you can find the most up-to-date technical roadmap and essential Partner Center resources at the end of the blog.

Securing the channel

Partner Center Security workspace: The Security workspace in Partner Center provides Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners with a centralized view for all security actions and resources. Two new roles, Security Administrator and Security Reader, have been added, allowing detailed access management without needing the admin agent role.

Azure authentication and fraud discretionary credit criteria changes: Starting September 2024, the criteria for assessing refund eligibility for a one-time discretionary credit related to fraudulent activity on individual Azure customer tenants is now updated to comply with the Microsoft Partner Agreement, including the requirement for multifactor authentication (MFA). To be eligible for the credit, MFA must be enabled when fraudulent activity begins. Additionally, starting October 2024, as part of the Secure Future Initiative, Microsoft will enforce MFA for all users signing in to the Azure portal.

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