Gamifying machine learning for stronger security and AI models
To stay ahead of adversaries, who show no restraint in adopting tools and techniques that can help them attain their goals, Microsoft continues to harness AI and machine learning to solve security challenges. One area we’ve been experimenting on is ... continue reading
Protect your business from email phishing with multi-factor authentication
Cybersecurity has been in the news far more often in the past 12 months than in previous years, as cybercriminals escalated their activity during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine. The seismic shift of hundreds of millions of people connecting and working ... continue reading
Azure LoLBins: Protecting against the dual use of virtual machine extensions
Azure Defender for Resource Manager offers unique protection by automatically monitoring the resource management operations in your organization, whether they’re performed through the Azure portal, Azure REST APIs, Azure CLI, or other Azure programmatic clients. In this blog, we will ... continue reading
Securing Azure datacenters with continuous IoT/OT monitoring
As more intelligent devices and machinery become connected to the internet, Operational Technology (OT) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have become part of your enterprise network infrastructure—and a growing security risk. With every new factory sensor, wind turbine monitoring ... continue reading
What's the difference between Azure Security Center, Azure Defender and Azure Sentinel?
It's common to have a pre-defined perspective when you hear the word "security". Some people think of applications being configured correctly or insecure coding practices. Some people think of identity concepts like password spray attacks, phishing or multi factor authentication ... continue reading
6 strategies to reduce cybersecurity alert fatigue in your SOC
Today, organizations are faced with the increasingly difficult task of trying to protect their expanding digital estate from sophisticated cybersecurity threats. Migration to the cloud and a mobile workforce has dissolved the network boundary and projected the digital estate beyond ... continue reading
Secure Application Lifecycle – Part 3 – Azure Sentinel
In the past part 1 and part 2, I discussed how we can monitor the security and health of our subscription manually. Also, we used Microsoft tools to find security issues with the subscription and discussed how we could resolve ... continue reading
Collaborative innovation on display in Microsoft’s insider risk management strategy
The disrupted work environment, in which enterprises were forced to find new ways to enable their workforce to work remotely, changed the landscape for operations as well as security. One of the top areas of concern is effectively managing insider ... continue reading
Digital Defense integrates with Microsoft to detect attacks missed by traditional endpoint security
This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association (MISA) guest blog series. You can learn more about MISA here. Cybercriminals have ramped up their initial compromises through phishing and pharming attacks using a variety of tools and tactics that, ... continue reading
Modernize secure access for your on-premises resources with Zero Trust
Change came quickly in 2020. More likely than not, a big chunk of your workforce has been forced into remote access. And with remote work came an explosion of bring-your-own-device (BYOD) scenarios, requiring your organization to extend the bounds of ... continue reading
