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Hardware-based threat defense against increasingly complex cryptojackers

Credit to Author: Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 17:00:00 +0000

To provide advanced protection against increasingly complex and evasive cryptojackers, Microsoft Defender Antivirus integrates with Intel® Threat Detection Technology (TDT) that applies machine learning to low-level CPU telemetry in detecting cryptojackers, even when the malware is obfuscated and can evade security tools.

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Connect with Microsoft Security experts at the 2022 Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft speakers at Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit focus on permissions management, infrastructure attacks, and moving to cloud-based identity.

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Disrupting SEABORGIUM’s ongoing phishing operations

Credit to Author: Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed and taken actions to disrupt campaigns launched by SEABORGIUM in campaigns involve persistent phishing and credential theft campaigns leading to intrusions and data theft.

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IT security: An opportunity to raise corporate governance scores

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Corporate Governance scoring is increasingly important to boards of directors, executive leadership, and the investment community. Governance frameworks now incorporate aspects of IT security. Communicating the security message in ways that impact a company’s governance score is important to getting attention and investment from corporate leadership. This post examines a leading governance framework from Institutional Shareholder Services, Governance QualityScore, and the specifics of how IT security can increase a company’s score.

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How IT and security teams can work together to improve endpoint security

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

The threat landscape has changed over the last few years. A mitigation strategy involves collaboration between the security operations and IT infrastructure teams. There are three best practices to enable collaboration, highlighting the role of endpoint management in helping organizations unify their efforts in this blog.

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Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting proactively hunts threats

Credit to Author: Christine Barrett| Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2022 16:00:00 +0000

Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting is now generally available. The security offering provides a proactive hunting service combining expert-trained technology with human-led services to hunt for threats across Microsoft 365 data.

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