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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Microsoft’s 4 principals 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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CISO series: Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3a: Choosing SOC tools

In the next post of our series, we provide tips on choosing technology to help a security operations center (SOC) be more responsive, effective, and collaborative.
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Azure Sentinel—the cloud-native SIEM that empowers defenders is now generally available

Our goal has remained the same since we first launched Microsoft Azure Sentinel in February: empower security operations teams to help enhance the security posture of our customers. Today, we take the next step in that journey by making Azure Sentinel generally available.
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Preparing your enterprise to eliminate passwords

If you’re a CIO, a CISO, or any other exec at a company who is thinking about digital security, the user name/password paradigm is more than a hassle, it’s a true security challenge, which keeps many of us up at night. Today, I’m outlining the basic steps necessary to eliminate passwords, with the acknowledgement that we’re still on the journey. I believe we’ve mapped out the right path, but we aren’t finished yet.
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Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC Part 2b: Career paths and readiness

In our second post about people—our most valuable resource in the SOC—we talk about our investments into readiness programs, career paths, and recruiting for success.
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