In this interview, Principal Product Manager Joey Cruz explains how his military experience inspires his work protecting customers in identity and access management at Microsoft.
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Mastercard Deputy Chief Security Officer Alissa “Dr. Jay” Abdullah, Ph.D., shares insights on why identity and access management is necessary and strategies for securing identities.
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In recent months, Microsoft detected weaponization of legitimate open-source software by an actor the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) tracks as ZINC, targeting employees at media, defense and aerospace, and IT service provider organizations in the US, UK, India, and Russia.
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Microsoft discovered an attack where attackers installed a malicious OAuth application in compromised tenants and used their Exchange servers to launch spam runs.
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A fake mobile banking rewards app delivered through a link in an SMS campaign has been making the rounds, targeting customers of Indian banking institutions. Users who install the mobile app are unknowingly installing an Android malware with remote access trojan (RAT) capabilities.
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In this follow-up post in our series about threat hunting, we talk about some general hunting strategies, frameworks, tools, and how Microsoft incident responders work with threat intelligence.
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With Windows 11, you can protect your valuable data and enable secure hybrid work with the latest advanced security. We’re proud to announce the new security features you heard about this spring are now available.
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In partnership with Microsoft, Terranova created the Gone Phishing Tournament, an online phishing initiative that uses real-world simulations to establish accurate phishing clickthrough rates and additional benchmarking statistics for user behaviors.
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After a compromise recovery follows what we call a Security Strategic Recovery. This is the plan for moving forward to get up to date with security posture all over the environment. The plan consists of different components like securing privileged access and extended detection and response, but it all points in the same direction: moving ahead with Zero Trust Strategy over traditional network-based security.
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When it comes to cybersecurity, the ability to normalize and correlate disparate logs from different devices, appliances, and resources is key, as is the ability to react quickly when under attack. In this blog post, we explore the importance of EPP as an essential component in your security strategy.
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