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

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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. We need to dispel this unfortunate notion.
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Afternoon Cyber Tea: Cybersecurity & IoT: New risks and how to minimize them

Every year billions of new connected devices come online. These devices enable businesses to finetune operations, optimize processes, and develop analytics-based services.
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Best security, compliance, and privacy practices for the rapid deployment of publicly facing Microsoft Power Apps intake forms

Security is a major concern of not only major governments but of other entities using Microsoft Power App intake forms.
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Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3d: Zen and the art of threat hunting

This blog provides lessons learned on how Microsoft hunts for threats in our IT environment and how you can apply these lessons to building or improving your threat hunting program. This is the seventh in a series.
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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.
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Defending Exchange servers under attack

Exchange servers are high-value targets. These attacks also tend to be advanced threats with highly evasive, fileless techniques. Keeping these servers safe from these advanced attacks is of utmost importance.
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CISO Stressbusters: Post #2: 4 tips for getting the first 6 months right as a new CISO

CISO Stressbusters: CISO guidance and support from around the world.
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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.
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Microsoft acquires CyberX to accelerate and secure customers’ IoT deployments

Today, we’re excited to announce that Microsoft has acquired the comprehensive, network-based IoT security platform CyberX.
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Modernizing the security operations center to better secure a remote workforce

The modern SOC will use machine learning to help humans protect organizations in a multi-cloud, IoT world.
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Barracuda and Microsoft: Securing applications in public cloud

The biggest blockers to public cloud adoption are sophisticated hackers, open vulnerabilities in applications, DDOs attacks and advanced bots/botnets. Learn how MISA Partner Barracuda works with Microsoft to protect cloud applications.
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Inside Microsoft Threat Protection: Mapping attack chains from cloud to endpoint

In the first blog in the Inside Microsoft Threat Protection series, we will show how MTP provides unparalleled end-to-end visibility into the activities of nation-state level attacks like HOLMIUM.
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