Work remotely, stay secure—guidance for CISOs

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2020 16:00:48 +0000

With many employees suddenly working from home, there are things an organization and employees can do to help remain productive without increasing cybersecurity risk.

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Azure Sphere—Microsoft’s answer to escalating IoT threats—reaches general availability

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2020 09:00:18 +0000

Azure Sphere is now generally available: Ann Johnson and Galen Hunt discuss cybersecurity, IoT, and why device security matters.

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Afternoon Cyber Tea—The State of Cybersecurity: How did we get here? What does it mean?

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2020 17:00:00 +0000

Listen to Ann Johnson discuss the scale of cyber threats—past, present, and future—with security strategist, Marc Goodman on her new podcast, Afternoon Cyber Tea.

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How to implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)

Credit to Author: Elizabeth Wolk| Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2020 17:00:21 +0000

The goal of MFA implementation is to enable it for all your users, on all of your systems, all of the time. Learn how to successfully roll out and support MFA in your organization.

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Rethinking cyber scenarios—learning (and training) as you defend

Credit to Author: Elizabeth Wolk| Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 17:00:55 +0000

Gamified cybersecurity learning is an increasingly important must-have in your SecOps program, from understanding basic concepts all the way into advanced attacker and defense scenarios. Microsoft and Circadence are working together to democratize and scale cyber readiness globally.

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CISO series: Lessons learned from the Microsoft SOC—Part 3b: A day in the life

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 17:00:57 +0000

In this next post in our series, we provide insight into a day in the life of our SOC analysts investigating common front door attacks.

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Go passwordless to strengthen security and reduce costs

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 00:00:56 +0000

Joy Chik, Microsoft CVP, Identity, explains how passwordless works and provides steps to begin preparing your organization to eliminate passwords.

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Spear phishing campaigns—they’re sharper than you think

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 17:00:15 +0000

Spear phishing campaigns can be highly effective—but they aren’t foolproof. If you understand how they work, you can put measures in place to reduce their power.

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Rethinking cyber learning—consider gamification

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 17:00:55 +0000

Gamified cybersecurity solutions offer immense promise by giving users practical, hands-on opportunities to learn by doing. Microsoft and Circadence are partnering to deliver Azure-hosted cyber range learning solutions for beginners up to advanced SecOps pros. Gamification is an increasingly important way for enterprises to attract tomorrow’s cyber pro talent and create tailored learning and more defined career paths and progression.

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