The Microsoft Security 20/20 awards honor partners who align to Microsoft’s focus on customer obsession and have developed innovative, integrated solutions during the past year across the security, compliance, and identity ecosystem.
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Tanya Janca, Founder of We Hack Purple Academy, talks with Microsoft about the biggest application security challenges and AppSec’s role in cybersecurity.
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Though you may know and follow basic security measures on your own when installing and managing your network and websites, you’ll never be able to keep up with and catch all the vulnerabilities by yourself.Vulnerability scanners can help you automate security auditing and can play a crucial part in your IT security. They can scan your network and websites for up to thousands of different security risks, producing a prioritized list of those you should patch, describe the vulnerabilities, and give steps on how to remediate them. Some can even automate the patching process.Though vulnerability scanners and security auditing tools can cost a fortune, there are free options as well. Some only look at specific vulnerabilities or limit how many hosts can be scanned but there are also those that offer broad IT security scanning.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…
Azure Defender for Resource Manager automatically monitors the resource management operations. This blog discusses the threats that are caused by ‘Living off the land Binaries’.
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Today, March 8, we are proud to celebrate International Women’s Day. The United Nations announced this year’s theme as “Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world.” As a woman, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a friend and a leader at Microsoft, this is an important time to acknowledge and celebrate the strength and resiliency women have shown during this pandemic.
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The challenges are greater than ever. But security pros have learned a lot – and with luck, the right strategic defenses can help even the highest-value targets withstand severe attacks. READ MORE HERE…
Learn how Microsoft Cloud App Security helps manage your SaaS apps and services, protecting against cyber threats, data leaks, and lack of compliance.
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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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We have recently expanded the integration of Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI) with Office 365 to include the runtime scanning of Excel 4.0 (XLM) macros, to help antivirus solutions tackle the increase in attacks that use malicious XLM macros.
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Like many of you, I’m thrilled to have my 2020 calendar safely in the recycling pile. During that time though, you too might have noticed how, perhaps unknowingly, you were able to turn some of last year’s lemons into lemonade. Maybe you developed a deeper appreciation for everyday moments and the people in your life,…
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