How to protect your CAD data files with MIP and HALOCAD
This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. Computer-aided design (CAD) files are used by design professionals in the manufacturing, engineering, architecture, surveying, and construction industries. These highly valuable files contain confidential ... continue reading
When coin miners evolve, Part 1: Exposing LemonDuck and LemonCat, modern mining malware infrastructure
[Note: In this two-part blog series, we expose a modern malware infrastructure and provide guidance for protecting against the wide range of threats it enables. Part 1 covers the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts ... continue reading
Behind the scenes of business email compromise: Using cross-domain threat data to disrupt a large BEC campaign
Microsoft 365 Defender researchers recently uncovered and disrupted a large-scale business email compromise (BEC) infrastructure hosted in multiple web services. Attackers used this cloud-based infrastructure to compromise mailboxes via phishing and add forwarding rules, enabling these attackers to get access ... continue reading
STIGing Made Easy – Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Introduction This is John Barbare and I am a Sr Customer Engineer at Microsoft focusing on all things in the Cybersecurity space. With my large customer base in the Microsoft Federal space and having to comply with internal security baselines ... continue reading
CRSP: The emergency team fighting cyber attacks beside customers
What is CRSP? Microsoft Global Compromise Recovery Security Practice. Who is CRSP? We are a worldwide team of cybersecurity experts operating in most countries, across all organizations (public and private), with deep expertise to secure an environment post-security breach and ... continue reading
Azure API for FHIR enables health organizations to deliver CMS Patient Access and Provider Directory APIs
On July 1, 2021, new requirements from the US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) begin that require regulated payers to enable new Patient Access and Provider Directory APIs. While this change may be happening without a lot of ... continue reading
Announcement: New SCOM Management Pack for Microsoft 365 – CTP Release
The wait is over! Today, we announce the Management Pack for monitoring Microsoft 365 in its CTP (Community Technical Preview) form. This has been a long pending ask amongst SCOM Customers and now, it is available for you to monitor ... continue reading
Automate and manage Azure AD tasks at scale with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK
Howdy folks, We’ve heard from customers that having a great PowerShell experience is critical in helping manage your identity needs at scale from automating tasks through scripts to managing users in bulk. Today we wanted to share the investments we’re ... continue reading
How user experience is shaping verifiable credentials and identity
Since 2017, Microsoft has been working with the identity community on two groundbreaking technologies designed from the ground up to make digital privacy convenient and practical: decentralized identifiers and verifiable credentials. We believe verifiable credentials will revolutionize the way we ... continue reading
Becoming resilient by understanding cybersecurity risks: Part 4—navigating current threats
In part three of this blog series on aligning security with business objectives and risk, we explored what it takes for security leaders to shift from looking at their mission as purely defending against technical attacks, to one that focuses ... continue reading
