Guiding principles of our identity strategy: staying ahead of evolving customer needs

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Data governance and retention in your Microsoft 365 tenant—a secure and highly capable solution

Microsoft 365 has a built in secure, highly capable data governance and retention capability.
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Guarding against supply chain attacks—Part 1: The big picture

Paying attention to every link in your supply chain is vital to protect your assets from supply chain attacks.
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Foundations of Flow—secure and compliant automation, part 2

In part 2 of our two-part series, we go deeper into how Microsoft Flow secures your users and data, as well as enhances the IT experience.
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3 strategies for building an information protection program

Five years ago, we started on a journey to update and simplify information protection at Microsoft. We’ve learned a lot about data protection and tools and today we’re sharing some of our best practices.
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CISO series: Talking cybersecurity with the board of directors

To maintain a board’s confidence, you need to engage them in your strategy early and often.
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How to help maintain security compliance

This is the last post in our eight-blog series on deploying Intelligent Security scenarios. In this post, we explain how Microsoft 365 security solutions enable you to manage security compliance processes.
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CISO series: Build in security from the ground up with Azure enterprise

Shawn Anderson, a former CISO, now meets with CISOs every other week to answer their questions on moving to the cloud and where to start. Today, Shawn shows you how you can use the Azure enterprise scaffold to migrate to the cloud—even in a hybrid-cloud environment.
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Ignite 2018 highlights: password-less sign-in, confidential computing, new threat protection, and more

What a week it was in Orlando! Ignite is always a biggie, and this one was no exception. At this year's event we put even greater emphasis on providing attendees with access to engineering experts throughout more than 100 focused sessions, workshops, and hands-on immersion experiences for the latest technologies in security.
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Here is Homeland Security, black swans, and thwarted cyberattacks

Last week, I had the honor of addressing The Homeland Security Training Institute (HSTI) at the College of DuPage as part of the HSTI Live educational series. The event featured other prominent speakers at the forefront of cybersecurity defense, including: Dave Tyson, CEO of CISO Insights, a global cybersecurity consultant and Nicole Darden Ford, Vice…
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IGF proves the value of bottom-up, multi-stakeholder model in cyberspace policy-making

In December, the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) brought the world together to talk about the internet. I tend to take a definite interest in cybersecurity, but there were many more important topics discussed. They ranged from diversity in the technology sector through to philosophy in the digital age. Cybersecurity was, nonetheless, a major theme. My…
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Minimize cybersecurity risk with Software Asset Management

This post is authored by Patama Chantaruck, General Manager of Worldwide Software Asset Management & Compliance.  By 2021, worldwide cybercrime damage is expected to reach $6 trillion—double what it cost businesses in 2015. Unapproved apps, unmanaged devices, poor password protection, and other security issues are leaving far too many organizations vulnerable to attack. And as…
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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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