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Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 21:00:51 +0000

Antimalware products play a key role in collaboration to reduce security complexity and deliver better protection to customers.

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Dismantling a fileless campaign: Microsoft Defender ATP next-gen protection exposes Astaroth attack

July 8, 2019 admin AI and machine learning, Antimalware Scan Interface (AMSI), Astaroth, behavior monitoring, Command-line scanning, cybersecurity, Endpoint security, Execution stage, fileless, fileless malware, heuristics, Initial access stage, living-off-the-land, Microsoft Defender ATP, Security Intelligence, Threat protection, Windows Defender Antivirus, Windows Security, WMIC

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 16:00:51 +0000

Advanced technologies in Microsoft Defender ATP next-generation protection exposed and defeated a widespread fileless campaign that completely “lived off the land” throughout a complex attack chain that run the info-stealing backdoor Astaroth directly in memory

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Microsoft’s Threat & Vulnerability Management now helps thousands of customers to discover, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities in real time

July 2, 2019 admin cybersecurity, Endpoint security, Microsoft Defender ATP, Security Intelligence, Threat and Vulnerability Management, Threat protection, TVM, Windows Security

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2019 16:00:13 +0000

I’m excited to announce that Microsoft’s Threat & Vulnerability Management solution is generally available as of June 28! We have been working closely with customers for more than a year to incorporate their real needs and feedback to better address vulnerability management. Our goal is to empower defenders with the tools they need to better…

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Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC Part 2b: Career paths and readiness

June 6, 2019 admin CISO series, Ciso series page, Incident Response, Security Intelligence, Threat protection

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2019 16:00:16 +0000

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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Defend your digital landscape with Microsoft 365

April 17, 2019 admin cybersecurity policy, Microsoft 365, Security Intelligence

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 16:00:50 +0000

Detect a security breach in real-time and respond immediately to reduce damage. Read our latest e-book, “Defend your digital landscape,” to find out how.

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Forcepoint DLP integration with Microsoft Information Protection—protecting your critical data

April 10, 2019 admin Information/data protection, Microsoft 365, Security Intelligence

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 19:00:42 +0000

Microsoft and Forcepoint are working closely to develop an integrated solution that makes it easy to discover, classify, label, and protect critical business data.

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Building the security operations center of tomorrow—better insights with compound detection

April 10, 2019 admin Azure Security, Security Intelligence

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 16:00:06 +0000

Learn how compound detection can help you apply the law of data gravity and correlate insights across your security platforms.

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Analysis of a targeted attack exploiting the WinRar CVE-2018-20250 vulnerability

April 10, 2019 admin cybersecurity, Endpoint security, Office 365 Security, Security Intelligence

Credit to Author: Eric Avena| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:00:58 +0000

A complex attack chain incorporating the CVE-2018-20250 exploit and multiple code execution techniques attempted to run a fileless PowerShell backdoor that could allow an adversary to take full control of compromised machines.

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