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6 strategies to reduce cybersecurity alert fatigue in your SOC

February 17, 2021 TH Author Azure Security, Azure Sentinel, Tips & Talk

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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Are students prepared for real-world cyber curveballs?

September 12, 2019 TH Author Security Intelligence, Security strategies, Tips, Tips & Talk

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

August 29, 2019 TH Author Tips, Tips & Talk

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

August 16, 2018 TH Author Cybersecurity, Tips & Talk

Every day, antivirus capabilities in Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Windows Defender ATP) protect millions of customers from threats. To effectively scale protection, Windows 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 Read more READ MORE HERE…

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

May 15, 2018 TH Author BYOD, data leakage, Data Privacy, mobile application management (MAM), mobile device management, Tips & Talk, Windows Information Protection (WIP)

Have you always wished you could have mobile application management (MAM) on Windows? Now you can! 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. With 600 million active Windows 10 devices, corporate customers Read more READ MORE HERE…

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Building a world without passwords

May 1, 2018 TH Author Cybersecurity, Data Privacy, FIDO2, Microsoft Authenticator app, password-less, Tips & Talk, Windows Hello

Nobody likes passwords. They are inconvenient, insecure, and expensive. In fact, we dislike them so much that weve been busy at work trying to create a world without them a world without passwords. In this blog, we will provide a brief insight into how we at Microsoft think about solving this problem, along with Read more READ MORE HERE…

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Teaming up in the war on tech support scams

April 20, 2018 TH Author Cybersecurity, tech support scam, Tips & Talk

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? READ MORE HERE…