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• 5 min read

6 strategies to reduce cybersecurity alert fatigue in your SOC

Alert fatigue is a top of mind challenge when it comes to security monitoring. As a result, organizations are constantly trying to improve their human capabilities, processes, and technology to address the challenge. Microsoft is uniquely positioned to take on this problem by tapping into the end-to-end capabilities of our Extended detection and response (XDR) offering that doesn’t just span the key security domains of concern but is also tightly integrated across those domains and powered by intelligence.
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• 3 min read

Are students prepared for real-world cyber curveballs?

Are today’s students getting the preparation they need to do the cybersecurity work of tomorrow? Read the findings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CyberForce Competition.™
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Beyond the buzzwords

Security vendors and professionals often use complex words and terminology to describe simple concepts. Here are few guidelines to consider when naming or describing your products, services, and features.
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Partnering with the industry to minimize false positives

Every day, antivirus capabilities in Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Microsoft Defender ATP) protect millions of customers from threats. To effectively scale protection, Microsoft Defender ATP uses intelligent systems that combine multiple layers of machine learning models, behavior-based detection algorithms, generics, and heuristics that make a verdict on suspicious files, most of the time in…
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• 4 min read

Use Windows Information Protection (WIP) to help make accidental data leakage a thing of the past

Windows Information Protection (WIP) is an out-of-the box data leakage prevention feature for Windows 10 that can automatically apply protection for work files and data to prevent accidental data leakage.
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Building a world without passwords

In this blog post, we will provide a brief insight into how we at Microsoft think about solving this problem, along with details on solutions that you can try out today.
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Teaming up in the war on tech support scams

Beyond customer education, the scale and complexity of tech support scams require cooperation and broad partnerships across the industry. Given the scale and complexity of tech support scams, how can the security industry at large work together to deal a major blow to this enduring threat?
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• 4 min read

SSN for authentication is all wrong

Unless you were stranded on a deserted island or participating in a zen digital fast chances are you’ve heard plenty about the massive Equifax breach and the head-rolling fallout. In the flurry of headlines and advice about credit freezes an important part of the conversation was lost: if we didn’t misuse our social security numbers,…
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Been shopping lately? Fake credit card email can spook you into downloading Cerber ransomware

As the shopping sprees become increasingly frenetic during holiday season, it’s hard not to worry about how much credit card debt we’re piling. Some of us rely on email notifications from our banks to track the damage to our finances. So what happens when we suddenly get notified about charges for things we never bought?…
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Windows 10: protection, detection, and response against recent Depriz malware attacks

A few weeks ago, multiple organizations in the Middle East fell victim to targeted and destructive attacks that wiped data from computers, and in many cases rendering them unstable and unbootable. Destructive attacks like these have been observed repeatedly over the years and the Windows Defender and Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection Threat Intelligence teams…
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