In brief Having issued an all-too-brief stay of execution on the decidedly whiffy Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols in Microsoft 365, the Windows giant has announced that deprecation enforcement will kick off again from 15 October.
The protocols were actually deprecated back in 2018 but Microsoft halted enforcement earlier this year, recognising that IT departments had quite a bit of unexpected work on their hands thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, "as supply chains have adjusted and certain countries open back up", a visit from Microsoft's axeman is due.
There has been plenty of notice – Microsoft went public with its plans in December 2017 and killing off TLS 1.0 and 1.1 once and for all is a pandemic holiday microsoft really going
