GoldMax, GoldFinder, and Sibot: Analyzing NOBELIUM’s layered persistence

Microsoft has identified three new pieces of malware being used in late-stage activity by NOBELIUM – the actor behind the SolarWinds attacks, SUNBURST, and TEARDROP.
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6 strategies to reduce cybersecurity alert fatigue in your SOC

Alert fatigue is a top of mind challenge when it comes to security monitoring. As a result, organizations are constantly trying to improve their human capabilities, processes, and technology to address the challenge. Microsoft is uniquely positioned to take on this problem by tapping into the end-to-end capabilities of our Extended detection and response (XDR) offering that doesn’t just span the key security domains of concern but is also tightly integrated across those domains and powered by intelligence.
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Azure Sentinel achieves a Leader placement in Forrester Wave, with top ranking in Strategy

I’m thrilled to announce Forrester Research has named Microsoft Azure Sentinel as a “Leader” in The Forrester Wave™: Security Analytics Platform Providers, Q4 2020. When we released Azure Sentinel almost a year ago—the industry’s first cloud-native SIEM on a major public cloud—our goal was to provide a new, innovative approach to help organizations modernize security…
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Go inside the new Azure Defender for IoT including CyberX

In 2020, the move toward digital transformation and Industry 4.0 took on new urgency with manufacturing and other critical infrastructure sectors under pressure to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs. But the cybersecurity model for operational technology (OT) was already shown to be lacking before the pandemic. A series of major cyberattacks across industries served…
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CISO Spotlight: How diversity of data (and people) defeats today’s cyber threats

This year, we have seen five significant security paradigm shifts in our industry. This includes the acknowledgment that the greater the diversity of our data sets, the better the AI and machine learning outcomes. This diversity gives us an advantage over our cyber adversaries and improves our threat intelligence. It allows us to respond swiftly…
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Microsoft Security—detecting empires in the cloud

Microsoft threat analysts have detected another evolution in GADOLINIUM’s tooling that the security community should understand when establishing defenses.
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STRONTIUM: Detecting new patterns in credential harvesting

Microsoft has tied STRONTIUM to a newly uncovered pattern of Office365 credential harvesting activity aimed at US and UK organizations directly involved in political elections.
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Accelerate your adoption of SIEM using Azure Sentinel and a new offer from Microsoft

Security operations teams need the cost savings and efficiency benefits of the cloud now more than ever. Accelerate your adoption of Azure Sentinel with an Azure credit offer.
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