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In this blog Jake Williams, Founder of Rendition InfoSec shares his insights on the 2020 threat landscape—who to watch for and why—and offers cybersecurity guidance and best practices on how to structure and evolve red and blue teaming within your organization.
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Microsoft Secure

January 4, 2021 TH Author

Forcepoint and Microsoft: Risk-based access control for the remote workforce

Forcepoint integrates with Azure Active Directory conditional access policies based on an individual’s dynamically calculated risk level.
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Microsoft Secure

December 28, 2020 TH Author

Using Microsoft 365 Defender to protect against Solorigate

This blog is a comprehensive guide for security operations and incident response teams using Microsoft 365 Defender to identify, investigate, and respond to the Solorigate attack if it’s found in your environment.
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Networkworld

December 28, 2020 TH Author

Wi-Fi: How to deploy 802.1x authentication using WPA3-Enterprise

Wi-Fi Protected Access 3 (WPA3) has brought significant security improvements to Wi-Fi networks, particularly WPA-3Enterprise, which includes tweaks to make authenticating to the network more secure. One of these is has to do with 802.1x authentication that is used to determine whether Wi-Fi clients will be granted access to the enterprise network.
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The enterprise mode of WPA has always allowed you to give each user a unique username/password to login to the Wi-Fi or to utilize unique digital certificates for each user to install on devices for even more security. Now with WPA3-Enterprise, the security is increased as clients are now required to make sure it’s communicating with the real authentication server before sending login credentials. That verification was optional with the earlier two versions of WPA.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

Networkworld

December 28, 2020 TH Author

How to deploy 802.1x for Wi-Fi using WPA3-Enterprise

Networkworld

December 23, 2020 TH Author

SolarWinds roundup: Fixes, new bad actors, and what the company knew

The SolarWinds Orion security breach is unfolding at a rapid pace, and the number of vendors and victims continues to grow. Each day brings new revelations as to its reach and depth. Of particular concern are the rate of infection and impact on government systems.In case you missed it, a backdoor was found in the SolarWinds Orion IT monitoring and management software. A dynamic link library called SolarWinds.Orion.Core.BusinessLayer.dll, a SolarWinds digitally-signed component of the Orion software framework, was found to contain a backdoor that communicates via HTTP to third-party servers.[Get regularly scheduled insights by signing up for Network World newsletters.]
After an initial dormant period of up to two weeks, the Trojan retrieves and executes commands, called jobs, that include the ability to transfer files, execute files, profile the system, reboot, and disable system services. In short, a total takeover of the machine.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

Networkworld

December 23, 2020 TH Author

SASE check list: 7 key evaluation criteria

The marriage of networking and security into the secure-access service edge stands to improve application performance, reduce infrastructure complexity, and protect sensitive data, and as such SASE is an attractive architecture for enterprises large and small.Due to the newness of SASE offerings, though, providers are still building and refining the features of their services, so available offerings are complex, often incomplete and require integration with customer organizations’ existing network and security architectures.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

Microsoft Secure

December 21, 2020 TH Author

Advice for incident responders on recovery from systemic identity compromises

Customers across the globe are asking for guidance on recovering their infrastructure after being impacted by Solorigate. DART walks you through remediation steps as well as some longer term mitigations.
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Microsoft Secure

December 18, 2020 TH Author

Analyzing Solorigate, the compromised DLL file that started a sophisticated cyberattack, and how Microsoft Defender helps protect customers

We, along with the security industry and our partners, continue to investigate the extent of the Solorigate attack. While investigations are underway, we want to provide the defender community with intelligence to understand the scope, impact, remediation guidance, and product detections and protections we have built in as a result. While the full extent of…
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Microsoft Secure

December 17, 2020 TH Author

Collaborative innovation on display in Microsoft’s insider risk management strategy

Partnering with organizations like Carnegie Mellon University allows us to bring their rich research and insights to our products and services, so customers can fully benefit from our breadth of signals.
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