Protect your business with Microsoft Security’s comprehensive protection
Securing an organization has never been simple. But over the past year, we’ve seen significant changes in the threat landscape that are having a major impact on organizations of every size in every sector. The frequency and sophistication of cyber ... continue reading
When coin miners evolve, Part 2: Hunting down LemonDuck and LemonCat attacks
[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 covered the evolution of the threat, how it spreads, and how it impacts ... continue reading
A guide to balancing external threats and insider risk
The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Rockwell Automation Vice ... 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
How to Switch a Failover Cluster to a New Domain
First published on MSDN on Jan 09, 2018 For the last two decades, changing the domain membership of a Failover Cluster has always required that the cluster be destroyed and re-created. This is a time-consuming process, and we have ... continue reading
Windows 10 – All Things About Application Guard
Hi IT Professionals, While working on a Customers ‘requests on Windows Defender Application Guard related to Microsoft Endpoint Manager – Attack Surface Reduction Policies, I could not find an up-to-date and detailed document from internet search. I have ended up ... continue reading
Phorpiex morphs: How a longstanding botnet persists and thrives in the current threat environment
Phorpiex, an enduring botnet known for extortion campaigns and for using old-fashioned worms that spread via removable USB drives and instant messaging apps, began diversifying its infrastructure in recent years to become more resilient and to deliver more dangerous payloads ... continue reading
Attack Surface Reduction Rules – Warn Mode with MEM/M365 Defender
Introduction This is John Barbare and I am a Sr Customer Engineer at Microsoft focusing on all things in the Cybersecurity space. In a previous blog back in July, 2020, I walked through a demo of setting up an Attack ... continue reading
10 Reasons to Love Passwordless #3: Why biometrics and passwordless are a dream combination
The Microsoft identity team recently launched a series explaining why they love passwordless authentication (and why you should too!).The series kicked off with posts on FIDO and NIST compliance. Alex Weinert continues the series with this post speaking to biometric ... continue reading
10 Reasons to Love Passwordless #10: Never use a password
In this series, Microsoft identity team members share their reasons for loving passwordless authentication (and why you should too!). Pamela Dingle closes the series with a post about the tighter security of passwordless authentication. Here we are at the last ... continue reading
