A whopping 74 percent of organizations recently surveyed experienced at least one data security incident with their business data exposed in the previous year. That’s just one of our interesting insights from Microsoft’s new Data Security Index: Trends, insights, and strategies to secure data report, released today. […]
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Today, at the Microsoft Business Applications Launch Event, we kicked off the 2023 release wave 2 for Microsoft Dynamics 365 and Microsoft Power Platform, a six-month rollout of new and enhanced capabilities scheduled for release between October 2023 and March 2024. This release wave introduces hundreds of new[…]
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We are excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security, Q4 2023. Microsoft received the highest possible scores in the strategy category for the vision and roadmap criteria. Forrester notes, “Microsoft’s outstanding roadmap for endpoint security includes expanding [Microsoft Defender[…]
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The era of AI brings unprecedented opportunities for us, and at the same time we are also facing an unprecedented surge in cyberthreats, coupled with a global shortage of security experts. Security and safety is the defining challenge of our times and protecting organizations from cybercrime has only[…]
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Since early October 2023, Microsoft has observed two North Korean nation-state threat actors – Diamond Sleet and Onyx Sleet – exploiting CVE-2023-42793, a remote-code execution vulnerability affecting multiple versions of JetBrains TeamCity server. TeamCity is a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) application used by organizations for DevOps and other[…]
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Since our announcement in July 2023, we have made significant efforts to enhance the access to Microsoft Purview’s audit logging.1 This ongoing work expands accessibility and flexibility to cloud security logs, which began rolling out to customers around the world in September 2023. Our decision to update the[…]
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Our experience and insights from real-world incidents tell us that the swift containment of compromised user accounts is key to disrupting hands-on-keyboard attacks, especially those that involve human-operated ransomware. In these attacks, lateral movement follows initial access as the next critical stage for attackers to advance their objective[…]
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Defenders need every edge they can get in the fight against ransomware. Today, we’re pleased to announce that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint customers will now be able automatically to disrupt human-operated attacks like ransomware early in the kill chain without needing to deploy any other capabilities. Now, organizations[…]
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Since we first introduced Microsoft Security Experts in May 2022, we’ve worked hard to expand our new security services category. In the past 16 months, we’ve launched new services, expanded our capabilities, and introduced new ways to buy. Our customers face an unprecedented number of security threats that[…]
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AI is here, and it’s ready to support work. On complex challenges like analyzing troves of data, speeding up time-consuming tasks, or helping customers help themselves—the newest AI sets up organizations for operational excellence by allowing employees to quickly create solutions for complicated problems on their own. That’s[…]
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