Azure Defender for SQL is now generally available for use with SQL Server on premises, in multicloud deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and in virtual machines on Azure. Azure Defender for SQL constantly monitors your SQL Server for known vulnerabilities and threats.
There has been a huge focus on the recently patched CVE-2020-1472 Netlogon Elevation of Privilege vulnerability, widely known as ZeroLogon. While Microsoft strongly recommends that you deploy the latest security updates to your servers and devices, we also want to provide you with the best detection coverage possible for your domain controllers.
In recent months, we’ve detected cyberattacks from three nation-state actors targeting seven prominent companies directly involved in researching vaccines and treatments for COVID-19. The targets include leading pharmaceutical companies and vaccine researchers in Canada, France, India, South Korea, and the United States.
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). And there is still a lot to do!
Machine learning (ML) is making incredible transformations in critical areas such as finance, healthcare, and defense, impacting nearly every aspect of our lives. Many businesses, eager to capitalize on advancements in ML, have not scrutinized the security of their ML systems.
An essential requirement of being a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is stakeholder management. In many organizations, security is still seen as a support function; meaning, any share of the budget you receive may be viewed jealously by other departments.
A new report from Microsoft shows it is clear that threat actors have rapidly increased in sophistication over the past year, using techniques that make them harder to identify.
The rapidity of change in the cyberthreat landscape can be daunting for today’s cyber defense teams. Just as they perfect the ability to block one attack method, adversaries change their approach.
The incidents view in Microsoft Threat Protection empowers SOC analysts by automatically fusing attack evidence and providing a consolidated view of an attack chain and affected assets, as well as a single-click remediation with easy-to-read analyst workflows.
This blog provides lessons learned on how Microsoft hunts for threats in our IT environment and how you can apply these lessons to building or improving your threat hunting program. This is the seventh in a series.
Announcing the public preview of Microsoft Defender ATP for Android! In the rapidly evolving world of mobile threats, Microsoft is taking a holistic approach to tackling these challenges and to securing enterprises and their data with our new mobile threat defense capabilities.
Stay ahead of attacks and protect your workloads with Azure Security. Join us for demos of Azure Secure Score and Security Center threat protection capabilities, while Stuart Gregg, Security Operations Manager of ASOS, shares how they’ve gained stronger threat protection by pairing these technologies with smarter security management practices.
