CISO series

Discover successful security strategies and valuable lessons learned from CISOs and Microsoft’s top security experts to help you navigate an ever-expanding threat landscape.

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Azure Sphere—Microsoft’s answer to escalating IoT threats—reaches general availability

Azure Sphere is now generally available: Ann Johnson and Galen Hunt discuss cybersecurity, IoT, and why device security matters.
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Afternoon Cyber Tea—The State of Cybersecurity: How did we get here? What does it mean?

Listen to Ann Johnson discuss the scale of cyber threats—past, present, and future—with security strategist, Marc Goodman on her new podcast, Afternoon Cyber Tea.
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How to implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

The goal of MFA implementation is to enable it for all your users, on all of your systems, all of the time. Learn how to successfully roll out and support MFA in your organization.
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Rethinking cyber scenarios—learning (and training) as you defend

Gamified cybersecurity learning is an increasingly important must-have in your SecOps program, from understanding basic concepts all the way into advanced attacker and defense scenarios. Microsoft and Circadence are working together to democratize and scale cyber readiness globally.
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CISO series: Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3b: A day in the life

In this next post in our series, we provide insight into a day in the life of our SOC analysts investigating common front door attacks.
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Spear phishing campaigns—they’re sharper than you think

Spear phishing campaigns can be highly effective—but they aren’t foolproof. If you understand how they work, you can put measures in place to reduce their power.
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Rethinking cyber learning—consider gamification

Gamified cybersecurity solutions offer immense promise by giving users practical, hands-on opportunities to learn by doing. Microsoft and Circadence are partnering to deliver Azure-hosted cyber range learning solutions for beginners up to advanced SecOps pros. Gamification is an increasingly important way for enterprises to attract tomorrow’s cyber pro talent and create tailored learning and more defined career paths and progression.
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Zero Trust strategy—what good looks like

Zero Trust is a model that will ultimately be infused throughout your enterprise and should inform virtually all access decisions and interactions between systems.
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Thinking about the balance between compliance and security

Ann Johnson shares best practices and tips on how to balance security with privacy compliance from her visit with Emma Smith, Global Security Director at Vodafone Group.
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Improve security with a Zero Trust access model

Microsoft Corporate Vice President and CISO, Bret Arsenault, describes how Microsoft is approaching Zero Trust with advice for applying learnings to your organization.
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Microsoft’s 4 principles for an effective security operations center

Microsoft Chief Cybersecurity Strategist, Jonathan Trull, outlines four principles any organization can use to improve the effectiveness of its SOC.
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Patching as a social responsibility

To plan, implement, and improve an enterprise patch management strategy, Microsoft is partnering with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). Learn how you can also help.
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