Security

Technical articles from Microsoft’s official blogs of in-depth discussions of security, cybersecurity and technology trends affecting trust in computing. This includes timely security news, trends, and best practices.

Defender for cloud’s Agentless secret scanning for virtual machines is now generally available!

Cloud cybersecurity is of paramount importance in today’s digital landscape, as organizations increasingly rely on cloud services to store and manage sensitive data, applications, and infrastructure. Attacks on cloud infrastructure pose severe risks to organizations such as data theft, ransomware attacks, crypto mining attacks, and service disruption. During a cyber-attack, after gaining initial access to …

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Diamond Sleet supply chain compromise distributes a modified CyberLink installer

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a supply chain attack by the North Korea-based threat actor Diamond Sleet (ZINC) involving a malicious variant of an application developed by CyberLink Corp., a software company that develops multimedia software products. This malicious file is a legitimate CyberLink application installer that has been modified to include malicious code that …

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Defender for Cloud unified Vulnerability Assessment powered by Defender Vulnerability Management

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a multicloud application protection platform (CNAPP) designed to protect your cloud-based applications from code-to-cloud. A key component of cloud security is continuously monitoring and managing new vulnerabilities across your cloud workloads. Vulnerability management helps organizations improve their security posture, reduce the attack surface, and prevent security breaches. We are thrilled …

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Securing your GitLab Environment with Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Introduction In the dynamic landscape of software development, developers across diverse organizations are embracing a wide variety of Source Code Management (SCM) and CI/CD pipeline systems to optimize their workloads. While this trend presents flexibility, collaboration, and speed to software development, the challenges of securing the application lifecycle become increasingly complex. As organizations strive to improve …

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Elevating Cybersecurity Intelligence with Microsoft Sentinel’s Enrichment Widgets

At Microsoft, we are continually advancing our tools to empower users in making data-driven and informed decisions. Our latest advancement in Microsoft Sentinel is the introduction of Enrichment Widgets. Widgets provide critical enrichment data, delivering key insights often encapsulated in just a few lines of text, which is pivotal in the realm of cybersecurity. What …

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