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Microsoft announces new solutions for threat intelligence and attack surface management

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IT security: An opportunity to raise corporate governance scores

Corporate Governance scoring is increasingly important to boards of directors, executive leadership, and the investment community. Governance frameworks now incorporate aspects of IT security. Communicating the security message in ways that impact a company’s governance score is important to getting attention and investment from corporate leadership. This post examines a leading governance framework from Institutional Shareholder Services, Governance QualityScore, and the specifics of how IT security can increase a company’s score.
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How IT and security teams can work together to improve endpoint security

The threat landscape has changed over the last few years. A mitigation strategy involves collaboration between the security operations and IT infrastructure teams. There are three best practices to enable collaboration, highlighting the role of endpoint management in helping organizations unify their efforts in this blog.
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Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting proactively hunts threats

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is now generally available. The security offering provides a proactive hunting service combining expert-trained technology with human-led services to hunt for threats across Microsoft 365 data.
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Industrial systems: What it takes to secure and staff them

Chief Executive Officer and owner of Ampere Industrial Security Patrick C. Miller discusses the security and hiring challenges of protecting industrial systems.
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Untangling KNOTWEED: European private-sector offensive actor using 0-day exploits

MSTIC and MSRC disclose technical details of a private-sector offensive actor (PSOA) tracked as KNOTWEED using multiple Windows and Adobe 0-day exploits, including one for the recently patched CVE-2022-22047, in limited and targeted attacks against European and Central American customers.
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Malicious IIS extensions quietly open persistent backdoors into servers

Attackers are increasingly leveraging managed IIS extensions as covert backdoors into servers, providing a durable persistence mechanism for attacks.
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How one Microsoft product manager acts as champion for identity security

Microsoft Partner Director of Identity Security Alex Weinert talks with Nitika Gupta, a Microsoft Principal Product Manager who leads the team responsible for enterprise admin capabilities for identity security.
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Discover 5 lessons Microsoft has learned about compliance management

Just like our customers, Microsoft has been on a compliance journey. Here’s what we’ve learned about the most effective mindset and tools to manage compliance.
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How Microsoft Purview and Priva support the partner ecosystem

We are excited to announce the general availability of the new Microsoft Graph APIs for Microsoft Purview eDiscovery. With the new Microsoft Purview eDiscovery APIs, partners and customers can leverage automation to streamline common, repetitive workflows that require a lot of manual effort in the product experience.
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How Microsoft Security partners are helping customers do more with less

The Microsoft Security partner opportunity grew 21 percent year-over-year, particularly in Microsoft 365 security, cloud security, compliance, and identity. Microsoft Security partners are expanding their existing offerings and creating new offerings in all these areas, packaging their unique experience, expertise, and IP for effective and efficient service delivery.
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North Korean threat actor targets small and midsize businesses with H0lyGh0st ransomware

A group of actors originating from North Korea that MSTIC tracks as DEV-0530 has been developing and using ransomware in attacks since June 2021. This group, which calls itself H0lyGh0st, utilizes a ransomware payload with the same name.
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Microsoft recognized as a Leader in UEM Software 2022 IDC MarketScape reports

Competition for talent has increased pressure to lead in the digital space, and business decisions now weigh user experience for employees heavily among costs and benefits. Workers insist on experiences that mirror their personal experience, often on their own device.
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