Microsoft SDL: Evolving security practices for an AI-powered world

As AI reshapes the world, organizations encounter unprecedented risks, and security leaders take on new responsibilities. Microsoft’s Secure Development Lifecycle SDL is expanding to address AI-specific security concerns in addition to the traditional software security areas that it has...

Product Walkthrough: A Look Inside Pillar's AI Security Platform

In this article, we will provide a brief overview of Pillar Security's platform to better understand how they are tackling AI security challenges. Pillar Security is building a platform to cover the entire software development and deployment lifecycle with the goal of providing trust in AI system...

ObfusBFA: a Holistic Approach to Safeguarding DNNs from Different Types of Bit-Flip Attacks

Bit-flip attacks BFAs represent a serious threat to Deep Neural Networks DNNs, where flipping a small number of bits in the model parameters or binary code can significantly degrade the model accuracy or mislead the model prediction in a desired way. Existing defenses exclusively focus on...

​​Explore practical best practices to secure your data with Microsoft Purview​​

According to the Microsoft 2024 Data Security Index, organizations experience an average of 156 data security incidents annually, and this cyberthreat continues to be a top concern for data security decision-makers.1 A full 82% of security decision-makers believe a comprehensive, fully integrated...

​​Explore practical best practices to secure your data with Microsoft Purview​​

According to the Microsoft 2024 Data Security Index, organizations experience an average of 156 data security incidents annually, and this cyberthreat continues to be a top concern for data security decision-makers.1 A full 82% of security decision-makers believe a comprehensive, fully integrated...

Akamai IP Accelerator: A Holistic Approach to Security and Performance

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Why it Pays to Have a Comprehensive API Security Strategy

In an era dominated by digital connectivity and rapid technological advancements, Application Programming Interfaces APIs play a pivotal role in facilitating seamless communication and data exchange between diverse software applications. As API usage continues to grow, so does the need for robust...

Microsoft shifts to a comprehensive SaaS security solution

Software as a service SaaS apps are ubiquitous, hybrid work is the new normal, and protecting them and the important data they store is a big challenge for organizations. Today, 59 percent of security professionals find the SaaS sprawl challenging to manage1 and have identified cloud...

Microsoft publishes new report on holistic insider risk management

The risk landscape for organizations has changed significantly in the past few years. The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes through 2025.1 Traditional ways of identifying and mitigating risks don’t always work. Historically, organization...

Microsoft publishes new report on holistic insider risk management

The risk landscape for organizations has changed significantly in the past few years. The amount of data captured, copied, and consumed is expected to grow to more than 180 zettabytes through 2025.1 Traditional ways of identifying and mitigating risks don’t always work. Historically, organization...

Data governance: 5 tips for holistic data protection

Your data is a strategic asset. To benefit your business, data requires strict controls around structure, access, and lifecycle. However, most security leaders have doubts about data security—nearly 70 percent of chief information security officers CISOs expect to have their data compromised in a...

Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs Year in Review: $13.7M in Rewards

The Microsoft Bug Bounty Programs and partnerships with the global security research community are important parts of Microsoft’s holistic approach to defending customers against security threats. Our bounty programs incentivize security research in high-impact areas to stay ahead of the...

What Is Zero Trust? It Depends What You Want to Hear

The cybersecurity world’s favorite catchphrase isn’t any one product or system, but a holistic approach to minimizing damage...

Zero Trust: 7 adoption strategies from security leaders

Microsoft considers Zero Trust an essential component of any organization’s security plan. We have partnered with Cloud Security Alliance, a not-for-profit organization that promotes cloud computing best practices, to bring together executive security leaders to discuss and share insights about...

Microsoft surpasses $10 billion in security business revenue, more than 40 percent year-over-year growth

I joined Microsoft a little more than six months ago—amid a global pandemic and a new norm of remote work, as well as one of the most rapidly evolving threat landscapes in history. We’ve witnessed more sophisticated attacks, like the recent SolarWinds incident, as well as an increase in attack...