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April 13, 2021

Secure unmanaged devices with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now

April 19, 2021

Surface expands its Secured-core portfolio with the new Surface Laptop 4 powered by AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors

Microsoft is proud to announce our latest Secured-core offering, the all-new Surface Laptop 4 powered by AMD Ryzen™ Mobile Processors. These devices offer comprehensive security out-of-the-box with tightly integrated hardware, software, firmware, and identity protection layers.

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April 15, 2021

CyberMDX and Microsoft: Protecting life-saving medical devices

While hospitals continue to battle the COVID-19 pandemic, many are battling other “viruses” behind the scenes.

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April 13, 2021

How far have we come? The evolution of securing identities

What are today’s biggest identity challenges? Have I Been Pwned Founder Troy Hunt talks with Microsoft about the current state of identity.

April 9, 2021

Investigating a unique “form” of email delivery for IcedID malware

Microsoft threat analysts have been tracking activity where contact forms published on websites are abused to deliver malicious links to enterprises using emails with fake legal threats. The emails instruct recipients to click a link to review supposed evidence behind their allegations, but are instead led to the download of IcedID, an info-stealing malware.

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April 8, 2021

Threat matrix for storage services

Storage services are one of the most popular services in the cloud. In this blog, we outline potential risks that you should be aware of when deploying, configuring, or monitoring your storage environment.

April 8, 2021

Gamifying machine learning for stronger security and AI models

We are open sourcing the Python source code of a research toolkit we call CyberBattleSim, an experimental research project that investigates how autonomous agents operate in a simulated enterprise environment using high-level abstraction of computer networks and cybersecurity concepts.

April 5, 2021

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now supports Windows 10 on Arm devices

Today, we are excited to announce that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint support of Windows 10 on Arm devices is generally available. This expanded support is part of our continued efforts to extend Microsoft Defender for Endpoint capabilities across all the endpoints defenders need to secure.

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April 5, 2021

Protect your business from email phishing with multi-factor authentication

Cybersecurity has been in the news far more often in the past 12 months than in previous years, as cybercriminals escalated their activity during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown.

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April 1, 2021

BlueVoyant optimizes customer security with Microsoft security services

Exponential growth in remote users and accelerated digital transformation involving migration of applications and data to the cloud has expanded the organizations’ attack surface.

April 1, 2021

Automating threat actor tracking: Understanding attacker behavior for intelligence and contextual alerting

A probabilistic graphical modeling framework used by Microsoft 365 Defender research and intelligence teams for threat actor tracking enables us to quickly predict the likely threat group responsible for an attack, as well as the likely next attack stages.

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March 31, 2021

Zero Trust: 7 adoption strategies from security leaders

How can your organization move to a Zero Trust security model? Ten executive security leaders met virtually to share strategies that been effective for them.

March 30, 2021

New Security Signals study shows firmware attacks on the rise; here’s how Microsoft is working to help eliminate this entire class of threats

The March 2021 Security Signals report showed that more than 80% of enterprises have experienced at least one firmware attack in the past two years, but only 29% of security budgets are allocated to protect firmware.

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