Threat and Vulnerability Mitigation

Find prescriptive guidance on assessing security risk and implementing security technologies that offer defense-in-depth protection against attacks and provide IT professionals with central visibility and control of the security environment.

Identity and Access Management

Learn about Microsoft technologies that allow legitimate users to access resources, while raising the bar for unauthorized users such as external hackers or internal disgruntled employees. Find guides, webcasts, and virtual labs to help you verify user identity, control user access to resources, and protect access to data throughout its life cycle.

Security Fundamentals

Combine Microsoft technology with tools and guidance to help build a secure foundation for your IT infrastructure. Learn about technologies intrinsic to the operating system that help make computers more resilient to attacks and provide the foundation upon which you can build your other technology investments.

Plan

Planning begins with understanding your priority assets, as well as their risks and vulnerabilities as identified through a risk management process, then creating corporate security policies to manage risks.

Prevent

Policies are mapped to solutions and processes, which are implemented in the Prevent phase.

Detect

Detection involves the tools, technologies and best practices for managing and monitoring the solutions and processes implemented during the Prevent phase.

Respond

The Respond phase encompasses pre-planned courses of action used to intercept security violations.