CISA and NSA Issue Urgent Guidance to Secure WSUS and Microsoft Exchange Servers

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and National Security Agency NSA, along with international partners from Australia and Canada, have released guidance to harden on-premise Microsoft Exchange Server instances from potential exploitation. "By restricting administrative...

QR Phishing. Fact or Fiction?

October 2023’s Cyber Security Awareness Month led to a flurry of blog posts about a new attack called Quishing QR Code phishing and how new AI powered email gateways can potentially block these attacks. What’s the attack? To understand the attack you need understand the challenge that the attacke...

Adopting guidance from the US National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the Internet of Things

The recently published United States National Cybersecurity Strategy warns that many popular Internet of Things IoT devices are not sufficiently secure to protect against many of today’s common cybersecurity threats.1 The strategy also cautions that many of these IoT devices are difficult—or, in...

Adopting guidance from the US National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the Internet of Things

The recently published United States National Cybersecurity Strategy warns that many popular Internet of Things IoT devices are not sufficiently secure to protect against many of today’s common cybersecurity threats.1 The strategy also cautions that many of these IoT devices are difficult—or, in...

Why Your Detection-First Security Approach Isn't Working

Stopping new and evasive threats is one of the greatest challenges in cybersecurity. This is among the biggest reasons why attacks increased dramatically in the past year yet again, despite the estimated $172 billion spent on global cybersecurity in 2022. Armed with cloud-based tools and backed b...

The 5 Core Principles of the Zero-Trust Cybersecurity Model

When even the US Government concludes that to ensure baseline security practices are in place and to realize the security benefits of cloud-based infrastructure while mitigating associated risks, they must migrate to a zero-trust model, every organization should be actively moving in that...

The Five Principles of a Zero Trust Cybersecurity Model

When even the US Government concludes that to ensure baseline security practices are in place and to realize the security benefits of cloud-based infrastructure while mitigating associated risks, they must migrate to a zero trust model, every organization should be actively moving in that...

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

For executives in the IT and security spaces, the current climate offers reasons to worry. As workers become accustomed to new flexibility in the workplace, hybrid and remote work options present more challenges. Users want to access corporate resources from their own devices without the...

The federal Zero Trust strategy and Microsoft’s deployment guidance for all

You’d be forgiven for missing the White House announcement on federal Zero Trust strategy on January 26, 2022.1 After all, on that day alone a Supreme Court Justice announced his intention to retire, the Federal Reserve announced its plan to raise interest rates, and the State Department was busy...

2021 in Review, Part 3: 5 Things Security Professionals Were Discussing this Year

Today, everyone is talking about CVE-2021-44228, and with good reason. But before that, here were five of the issues that dominated virtual “water cooler talk” in 2021: 5. Data security in the cloud Champion heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the...

Top 10 Cybersecurity Best Practices to Combat Ransomware

If you’re like most IT professionals, the threat of a ransomware attack might keep you up at night. And you have a valid reason to worry — ransomware doesn’t discriminate. Organizations across every industry, public or private, are potential victims, if they haven’t been victims already. In fact,...

VPN Exposes Data for 1M Users, Leading to Researcher Questioning

Free virtual private network VPN service Quickfox, which provides access to Chinese websites from outside the country, exposed the personally identifiable information PII of more than a million users in just the latest high-profile VPN security failure. The incident has some security practitioner...

Microsoft a Leader in 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Endpoint Management Tools

In today’s changing business world, where flexibility is more crucial than ever, we’re honored that Gartner has again recognized Microsoft as a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Unified Endpoint Management UEM Tools1. Over the last 18 months, millions of employees worldwide have had to shift their...

Zero Trust Adoption Report: How does your organization compare?

From the wide adoption of cloud-based services to the proliferation of mobile devices. From the emergence of advanced new cyberthreats to the recent sudden shift to remote work. The last decade has been full of disruptions that have required organizations to adapt and accelerate their security...

Afternoon Cyber Tea: Microsoft’s cybersecurity response to COVID-19

On February 25, 2020, Microsoft Chief Information Security Officer CISO Bret Arsenault was attending the RSA Conference in San Francisco when the city declared a state of emergency because of COVID-19. Shortly after flying back to Seattle, Bret learned of the first death from the coronavirus in...

Colonial Pipeline attack expected to trigger imminent hardening of cybersecurity rules for federal agencies

UPDATE 04:23 pm Pacific Time, May 12: On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order that broadly directs the Commerce Department to create cybersecurity standards for companies that sell software to the federal government. The Order comes in the immediate aftermath of a ransomware...

How to apply a Zero Trust approach to your IoT solutions

For many, 2020 was a year of survival as they rapidly transformed their businesses in response to a new normal. From enabling new remote and hybrid work models to implementing new technology to help optimize operations, the last year has seen a significant uptick in the proliferation and role of...

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...

Reprioritizing security requirements for 2021

To say 2020 was a strange year would be an understatement. Among the effects of the global pandemic were major changes in where and how people work and accelerated commitments to organizational digital transformation. Cyber attackers weren’t shy about taking advantage of the blind spots these...

4 Free Online Cyber Security Testing Tools For 2021

Set of must-have online security tools that we believe may make a real difference to your cybersecurity program and improve your 2021 budget planning. In September, Gartner published a list of "Top 9 Security and Risk Trends for 2020" putting a bold emphasis on the growing complexity and size of...