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Microsoft works with healthcare organizations to protect from popular ransomware during COVID-19 crisis: Here’s what to do

April 1, 2020 TH Author coronavirus-themed threats, covid-19, Cybersecurity, Endpoint security, gateway, Healthcare, human-operated ransomware, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft security intelligence, ransomware, remote work, REvil, Secure remote work, Securing remote workers series, Security Intelligence, Sodinokibi, Threat protection, virtual private network (VPN), virtual private server (VPS), VPN

Microsoft identified several dozens of hospitals with vulnerable gateway and VPN appliances. We sent these hospitals a first-of-its-kind notification with important info about the vulnerabilities, how attackers can take advantage of them, and a strong recommendation to apply security updates.
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Welcoming a more diverse workforce into cybersecurity: expanding the pipeline

March 31, 2020 TH Author CISO series, Ciso series page, Cybersecurity

If you don’t have enough diversity on your cybersecurity team, it may be because you aren’t looking in the right places.
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Making it easier for your remote workforce to securely access all the apps they need, from anywhere

March 31, 2020 TH Author Azure Security, Identity and access management, Microsoft Authenticator, Microsoft Intune

Ensure your remote workforce has secure access to all the apps they need: SaaS, cloud-hosted, on-premises, and legacy.
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Alternative ways for security professionals and IT to achieve modern security controls in today’s unique remote work scenarios

March 26, 2020 TH Author Azure Security, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Defender ATP, Office 365 Security, Secure remote work, Securing remote workers series

Increased remote work has many organizations rethinking network and security strategies. In this post we share guidance on how to manage security in this changing environment.
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Welcoming and retaining diversity in cybersecurity

March 24, 2020 TH Author CISO series, Ciso series page, Cybersecurity

Do you have the right practices in place to retain and grow the cybersecurity women who already work at your company?
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Defending the power grid against supply chain attacks—Part 2: Securing hardware and software

March 23, 2020 TH Author Cybersecurity Policy, Identity and access management, IoT, Threat protection

The hardware and software companies who supply utilities must implement better security of their build and update environment to reduce the risk of an attack on critical infrastructure.
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Latest Astaroth living-off-the-land attacks are even more invisible but not less observable

March 23, 2020 TH Author Alternate Data Streams (ADS), Astaroth, behavioral blocking and containment, Cybersecurity, Endpoint security, fileless, info-stealing malware, living-off-the-land, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft security intelligence, ransomware, Security Intelligence, Threat protection, WMIC

Astaroth is back sporting significant changes. The updated attack chain maintains Astaroth’s complex, multi-component nature and continues its pattern of detection evasion.
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Protecting against coronavirus themed phishing attacks

March 20, 2020 TH Author Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Defender ATP, Office 365 Security, Phishing

Customers are asking us what Microsoft is doing to help protect them from phishing and cyberattacks, and what they can do to better protect themselves. We thought now would be a good time to share some best practices and useful information.
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Welcoming more women into cybersecurity: the power of mentorships

March 19, 2020 TH Author AI and machine learning, CISO series, Ciso series page, Cybersecurity, Security Intelligence

I’ve long been a proponent to challenging traditional schools of thought—traditional cyber-norms—and encouraging our industry to get outside its comfort zones.
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Forrester names Microsoft a Leader in 2020 Enterprise Detection and Response Wave

March 18, 2020 TH Author Microsoft Cloud App Security, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection, Microsoft Defender ATP, Threat protection

I’m proud to announce that Microsoft is positioned as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Detection and Response, Q1 2020.
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