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Tailored AI insights from Microsoft Security Copilot
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December 10, 2020

2 min read

New cloud-native breadth threat protection capabilities in Azure Defender

As the world adapts to working remotely, the threat landscape is constantly evolving, and security teams struggle to protect workloads with multiple solutions that are often not well integrated nor comprehensive enough.
December 3, 2020

5 min read

Understanding influences shaping the cybersecurity landscape, enabling digital transformation, and helping to protect our planet

The accelerated rate of digital transformation we have seen this past year presents both challenges and endless opportunities for individuals, organizations, businesses, and governments around the world.
December 2, 2020

2 min read

Protect your SQL Server on-premises, in Azure, and in multicloud

Azure Defender for SQL is now generally available for use with SQL Server on premises, in multicloud deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and in virtual machines on Azure.
November 30, 2020

5 min read

Zerologon is now detected by Microsoft Defender for Identity

There has been a huge focus on the recently patched CVE-2020-1472 Netlogon Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, widely known as ZeroLogon.
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November 18, 2020

1 min read

Cyberattacks targeting health care must stop

In recent months, we’ve detected cyberattacks from three nation-state actors targeting seven prominent companies directly involved in researching vaccines and treatments for COVID-19.
October 29, 2020

3 min read

It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month and there is still a lot to do

October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM).
October 22, 2020

4 min read

Cyberattacks against machine learning systems are more common than you think

Machine learning (ML) is making incredible transformations in critical areas such as finance, healthcare, and defense, impacting nearly every aspect of our lives.
October 15, 2020

6 min read

CISO Stressbusters: 7 tips for weathering the cybersecurity storms

An essential requirement of being a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is stakeholder management.
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September 29, 2020

2 min read

Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2020: Cyber Threat Sophistication on the Rise

A new report from Microsoft shows it is clear that threat actors have rapidly increased in sophistication over the past year, using techniques that make them harder to identify.
July 23, 2020

2 min read

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Peak, Plateau, or Plummet? Cyber security trends that are here to stay and how to detect and recover from ransomware attacks

The rapidity of change in the cyberthreat landscape can be daunting for today’s cyber defense teams.
July 9, 2020

4 min read

Inside Microsoft 365 Defender: Correlating and consolidating attacks into incidents

The incidents view in Microsoft Threat Protection empowers SOC analysts by automatically fusing attack evidence and providing a consolidated view of an attack chain and affected assets, as well as a single-click remediation with easy-to-read analyst workflows.
June 25, 2020

5 min read

Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3d: Zen and the art of threat hunting

This blog provides lessons learned on how Microsoft hunts for threats in our IT environment and how you can apply these lessons to building or improving your threat hunting program.