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Prevent threats with Microsoft Defender

The Microsoft Defender family offers comprehensive threat prevention, detection, and response capabilities for everyone—from individuals looking to protect their family to the world’s largest enterprises.

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July 21, 2020

6 min read

Preventing data loss and mitigating risk in today’s remote work environment

New solutions and features—like the new Endpoint Data Loss Prevention—help organizations to protect against data loss and other risks, especially in remote work scenarios.
July 20, 2020

4 min read

Hello open source security! Managing risk with software composition analysis

Software composition analysis guides the selection and management of open source components to help you reduce your security risk.
July 15, 2020

4 min read

Prevent and detect more identity-based attacks with Azure Active Directory

Security controls built into Azure Active Directory can reduce your risk of compromise.
July 14, 2020

7 min read

Microsoft Intelligent Security Association expands to include managed security service providers

The Microsoft Intelligent Security Association expands to include Security MSSPs, through a pilot program that launched July 2020.
Retain Microsoft Security Experts

Microsoft Security Experts are now available to strengthen your team with managed security services. Learn how to defend against threats with security experts.

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July 9, 2020

1 min read

Making Azure Sentinel work for you

A new white paper outlines best practice recommendations for configuring data sources for incident response and proactively hunting for threats using Azure Sentinel.
July 9, 2020

4 min read

Inside Microsoft 365 Defender: Correlating and consolidating attacks into incidents

The incidents view in Microsoft Threat Protection empowers SOC analysts by automatically fusing attack evidence and providing a consolidated view of an attack chain and affected assets, as well as a single-click remediation with easy-to-read analyst workflows.
July 8, 2020

4 min read

Protecting your remote workforce from application-based attacks like consent phishing

Learn how to protect your workforce from application-based attacks and the investments Microsoft is making to help foster a secure and trustworthy app ecosystem.
July 7, 2020

6 min read

New study shows customers save time, resources and improve security with Microsoft Cloud App Security

Learn how customers benefit most from Microsoft’s Cloud App Security to gain visibility to Shadow IT and gain ROI on their investment.
Modernize your Security Operations Center with Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM solution powered by AI and automation that delivers intelligent security analytics across your entire enterprise.

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July 2, 2020

3 min read

The world is your authentication and identity oyster

For decades we have been taught that passwords are some level of security that can be implemented to protect websites.
June 30, 2020

6 min read

The psychology of social engineering—the “soft” side of cybercrime

Build a phishing resistant culture with Cialdini’s 6 Principles of Persuasion .
June 24, 2020

2 min read

Feeling fatigued? Cloud-based SIEM relieves security team burnout

Most CISOs and CSOs are worried that a growing volume of alerts is causing burnout among their teams, according to new research from IDG.
June 23, 2020

3 min read

Microsoft continues to extend security for all with mobile protection for Android

Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Defender ATP for Android! In the rapidly evolving world of mobile threats, Microsoft is taking a holistic approach to tackling these challenges and to securing enterprises and their data with our new mobile threat defense capabilities.