Security is a core focus at Microsoft Ignite 2025, reflected in dedicated sessions and hands-on experiences designed for security professionals and leaders. Take a look at the session catalog.
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Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a financially motivated threat actor that we track as Storm-2657 compromising employee accounts to gain unauthorized access to employee profiles and divert salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts, attacks that have been dubbed “payroll pirate”.
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Threat actors seek to abuse Microsoft Teams features and capabilities across the attack chain, underscoring the importance for defenders to proactively monitor, detect, and respond effectively. In this blog, we recommend countermeasures and optimal controls across identity, endpoints, data apps, and network layers to help strengthen protection for enterprise Teams users.
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Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) patterns and practices are practical, actionable, insights from practitioners for practitioners based on Microsoft’s implementation of Zero Trust through the Microsoft Secure Future Initiatives. By adopting these patterns, organizations can accelerate their security maturity, reduce implementation friction, and build systems that are more secure by design, default, and in operation.
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Incident response is never orderly. Threat actors don’t wait. Environments are compromised. Data is missing. Confidence is shaken. But for Microsoft’s Incident Response (IR) team, that chaos is exactly where the work begins.
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Storm-1175, a financially motivated actor known for deploying Medusa ransomware and exploiting public-facing applications for initial access, was observed exploiting the deserialization vulnerability in GoAnywhere MFT’s License Servlet, tracked as CVE-2025-10035. We are publishing this blog post to increase awareness of this threat and to share end-to-end protection coverage details across Microsoft Defender.
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Microsoft has been named a Leader in IDC’s inaugural category for Worldwide Extended Detection and Response (XDR) Software for 2025, recognized for its deep integration, intelligent automation, and unified security operations solutions.
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At Microsoft, we believe that cybersecurity is as much about people as it is about technology. Explore some of our resources for Cybersecurity Awareness Month to stay safe online.
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Microsoft Sentinel is expanding into an agentic platform with general availability of the Sentinel data lake, and the public preview of Sentinel graph and Sentinel Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
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To empower customers in becoming Frontier, we’re excited to announce the launch of the reimagined Microsoft Marketplace, your trusted source for cloud solutions, AI apps and agents.
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