{"id":37265,"date":"2020-09-22T14:57:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/blog\/?p=91812"},"modified":"2020-09-22T14:57:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:57:24","slug":"microsoft-announces-cloud-innovation-to-simplify-security-compliance-and-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/microsoft-announces-cloud-innovation-to-simplify-security-compliance-and-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft announces cloud innovation to simplify security, compliance, and identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

2020 will be remembered as a year of historic transformation. The pandemic has changed the way businesses operate and people work. One thing that has not changed is our basic human nature and the need to feel safe. Being safe and feeling safe is what allows us to do more, create more, and have trust in the technology that connects us all.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s no wonder, then, that cyber-security is so important right now<\/a>. Digital security is about people\u2014it\u2019s about empowering defenders to defend and protect employees, data, work, and personal safety. It\u2019s about making people and organizations resilient in an environment of unexpected change, like widespread remote work. Nearly overnight, organizations worldwide have had to enable remote workforces, support rapidly evolving business requirements, and steer to the next normal without knowing what that normal would be.<\/p>\n

All of this takes place against a backdrop of advanced threats and adversaries. For example, Microsoft threat intelligence teams recently exposed cyberattacks<\/a> targeting people and organizations involved in the upcoming U.S. presidential election including unsuccessful attacks on people associated with both presidential campaigns from a variety of foreign activity groups known to Microsoft as Strontium, Zirconium, and Phosphorus.<\/p>\n

For those responsible for securing their organization\u2019s digital infrastructure, this has all come on top of what they were already navigating\u2014levels of complexity that often translate into barriers for companies, their people, and the customers they serve. That\u2019s why we\u2019re so passionate about reimagining security, identity, and compliance. We hold a differentiated view among our peers that security should not only encompass all critical aspects of security\u2014including cybersecurity, identity, and compliance \u2013 but that these components should be tightly integrated, and built right into the products and platforms that businesses are already using, so that managing safe access, securing data, meeting regulatory requirements and protecting against threats is seamless.<\/p>\n

Countless innovative companies like ASOS<\/a>, CenturyLink<\/a>, Erie Insurance<\/a>, Frost Bank<\/a>, Rabobank<\/a>, Unilever<\/a>, Rockefeller Capital Management<\/a>, Uniper<\/a>, Komatsu<\/a>, and The Little Potato Company<\/a>; and public sector organizations including the US Department of Defense, New Jersey Administrative Office of the Courts<\/a>, Ashford & St. Peter\u2019s Hospitals (NHS)<\/a>, St. Luke\u2019s<\/a>, and Durham University<\/a> are tapping into the Microsoft cloud to help secure their futures. Today we\u2019re delivering a new set of security, compliance, and identity innovations to help all customers simplify and modernize their environments by embracing the reality that the past seven months have likely reshaped the next 10 years of security and digital transformation.<\/p>\n

Modern security with a new Microsoft Defender<\/h2>\n

Poor security posture is often rooted in complexity. Security teams have historically struggled to keep up with threats and signals across a patchwork of poorly integrated solutions that fail to cover the breadth of workloads, clouds, and devices that businesses run on. Fortunately, the cloud has given rise to a new generation of modern security tools that simplify the defender experience by combining signals and automating responses to catch threats that would otherwise go unchecked. The most important emerging tools are Extended Detection and Response (XDR) and cloud-native Security Information & Event Management (SIEM). Most vendors only offer one or the other.<\/p>\n

Microsoft offers a unique approach that empowers security professionals with both cloud-native SIEM and XDR tools from a single vendor. This brings a new level of integration that gives defenders the best of both worlds\u2014an end to end visibility across all of their resources and intelligent alerts built with a deep understanding of individual resources, enhanced with human and machine intelligence.<\/p>\n

Today we are making the following announcements to simplify the defender experience with modern and integrated capabilities:<\/p>\n