This whitepaper will help you to answer key questions such as: How will your organization protect itself from advanced cyber-attacks? What are you doing to detect suspicious behavior within the organization and beyond? What processes and tools will you implement to quickly respond to threats and quickly recover from the effects of an attack?
Securing Manufacturing: How we can improve speed and efficiency while protect...Conor Bronsdon
in 2019 Microsoft Services started a series of eBooks examining key opportunities in Cybersecurity & Identity transformation within different industries.
This paper (which I contributed to) examines industrial manufacturing security within the context of today's digital transformation.
Strategic Information Management Through Data ClassificationBooz Allen Hamilton
This white paper presents a comprehensive approach to information management programs. It outlines how data growth directly affects the risk posture of critical corporate information assets. In addition, it defines common problems caused by gaps in information management programs as well as consequences associated with immature methodologies.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the June Edition:
• Microsoft, Dell Technologies collaborate to simplify IoT solutions delivery.
• Oracle delivers next set of autonomous cloud platform services.
• Partner profitability - Ramkumar Balakrishnan, President, Redington Value.
• Fortinet report reveals an evolution of malware to exploit cryptocurrencies.
• Dell Technologies Customer Solution Centre opens in Dubai.
• Redington Value partners with Nutanix to deliver enterprise cloud solutions.
• Huawei’s roadshow focuses on driving digital transformation.
• Veeam announces vision for the Hyper-Available Enterprise.
• Micro Focus announces agreement with Utimaco to divest Atalla portfolio.
• Red Hat launches latest version of Red Hat virtualization.
• Palo Alto Networks Announces Intent to Acquire Secdo.
• Nexthink announces integration with Splunk.
Identity - building trust in a digital worldConor Bronsdon
A Microsoft Services Whitepaper which I contributed to where we examine the topic of Identity in today's evolving digital threat landscape.
You can download the Whitepaper from Microsoft Services' here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/7/C/E7CECE45-1749-4C2F-AA91-0586DAEAF464/Identity_Building_Trust_in_a_Digital_World_eBook.pdf
Enterprise Mobility Applications: Addressing a Growing GapBlackBerry
This new report on enterprise mobility applications highlights the alarming gap between Central IT and line-of-business IT environments. Millennials in particular are showing signs of growing frustration with the devices and software tools available to support them in the workplace. Many are making their own mobility arrangements, through ‘shadow IT’, despite growing regulatory risk. The advent of the ‘Internet of Things’ will further exacerbate the situation as mobile staff seek access to real time data from their phones and tablets.
Our recent survey of over 100 financial service organizations, conducted by Forbes Insights in the UK and North America, indicates that despite current business and employee demand, enterprise mobile applications remain at a very early stage of maturity, with less than a quarter of employees eligible to access such facilities. The implications here are profound, given the need to support mobile working with appropriate tools in every sphere of corporate activity today.
Many employees complain that the only advance over the last ten years has been to ‘mobilize the laptop’. This merely emulates the traditional desktop environment outside the office. Set against this stark background of underperformance in the mobility area, Central IT appears to be preoccupied with legacy issues such as costly infrastructures and aging systems. Our survey reveals that despite having developed policies and tools to address enterprise mobility, Central IT has little visibility of what is actually going on within the lines of business or at the end user level.
Nor does it have the necessary resources currently to respond rapidly to the growing pressures for workplace mobility. External agencies appear to be stepping in to fill this gap, frequently circumventing Central IT. Mobility remains low on the Central IT agenda.
Resilience Engineering as an IT Cultural DisciplineCognizant
To enable always-on and always-available digital business, IT organizations must become more operationally resilient to enhance system and application stability, which fuels service reliability and boosts reputational integrity.
This report addresses the common challenge of BMS cyber security and its underlying components. Vulnerable elements across a range of components were investigated, with the vulnerabilities potentially affecting more than 10 million people.
During the research, some of the risks discovered within these BMS components include the potential ability for threat actors to:
Remotely lock or unlock doors and gates;
Control physical access of restricted areas;
Deny service (shutdown controllers);
Manipulate alarms and video surveillance;
Control temperature, boilers, air-condition, windows blinds, gas readings, etc.
Through a detailed analysis of the affected components, we provide clear cyber security recommendations for end users, vendors and system integrators, as well as a thorough technical breakdown including Proof of Concept exploit code, which allow unauthenticated remote code execution against the affected BMS products.
https://applied-risk.com/resources/i-own-your-building-management-system
Securing Manufacturing: How we can improve speed and efficiency while protect...Conor Bronsdon
in 2019 Microsoft Services started a series of eBooks examining key opportunities in Cybersecurity & Identity transformation within different industries.
This paper (which I contributed to) examines industrial manufacturing security within the context of today's digital transformation.
Strategic Information Management Through Data ClassificationBooz Allen Hamilton
This white paper presents a comprehensive approach to information management programs. It outlines how data growth directly affects the risk posture of critical corporate information assets. In addition, it defines common problems caused by gaps in information management programs as well as consequences associated with immature methodologies.
Value Journal, a monthly news journal from Redington Value Distribution, intends to update the channel on the latest vendor news and Redington Value’s Channel Initiatives.
Key stories from the June Edition:
• Microsoft, Dell Technologies collaborate to simplify IoT solutions delivery.
• Oracle delivers next set of autonomous cloud platform services.
• Partner profitability - Ramkumar Balakrishnan, President, Redington Value.
• Fortinet report reveals an evolution of malware to exploit cryptocurrencies.
• Dell Technologies Customer Solution Centre opens in Dubai.
• Redington Value partners with Nutanix to deliver enterprise cloud solutions.
• Huawei’s roadshow focuses on driving digital transformation.
• Veeam announces vision for the Hyper-Available Enterprise.
• Micro Focus announces agreement with Utimaco to divest Atalla portfolio.
• Red Hat launches latest version of Red Hat virtualization.
• Palo Alto Networks Announces Intent to Acquire Secdo.
• Nexthink announces integration with Splunk.
Identity - building trust in a digital worldConor Bronsdon
A Microsoft Services Whitepaper which I contributed to where we examine the topic of Identity in today's evolving digital threat landscape.
You can download the Whitepaper from Microsoft Services' here: http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/7/C/E7CECE45-1749-4C2F-AA91-0586DAEAF464/Identity_Building_Trust_in_a_Digital_World_eBook.pdf
Enterprise Mobility Applications: Addressing a Growing GapBlackBerry
This new report on enterprise mobility applications highlights the alarming gap between Central IT and line-of-business IT environments. Millennials in particular are showing signs of growing frustration with the devices and software tools available to support them in the workplace. Many are making their own mobility arrangements, through ‘shadow IT’, despite growing regulatory risk. The advent of the ‘Internet of Things’ will further exacerbate the situation as mobile staff seek access to real time data from their phones and tablets.
Our recent survey of over 100 financial service organizations, conducted by Forbes Insights in the UK and North America, indicates that despite current business and employee demand, enterprise mobile applications remain at a very early stage of maturity, with less than a quarter of employees eligible to access such facilities. The implications here are profound, given the need to support mobile working with appropriate tools in every sphere of corporate activity today.
Many employees complain that the only advance over the last ten years has been to ‘mobilize the laptop’. This merely emulates the traditional desktop environment outside the office. Set against this stark background of underperformance in the mobility area, Central IT appears to be preoccupied with legacy issues such as costly infrastructures and aging systems. Our survey reveals that despite having developed policies and tools to address enterprise mobility, Central IT has little visibility of what is actually going on within the lines of business or at the end user level.
Nor does it have the necessary resources currently to respond rapidly to the growing pressures for workplace mobility. External agencies appear to be stepping in to fill this gap, frequently circumventing Central IT. Mobility remains low on the Central IT agenda.
Resilience Engineering as an IT Cultural DisciplineCognizant
To enable always-on and always-available digital business, IT organizations must become more operationally resilient to enhance system and application stability, which fuels service reliability and boosts reputational integrity.
This report addresses the common challenge of BMS cyber security and its underlying components. Vulnerable elements across a range of components were investigated, with the vulnerabilities potentially affecting more than 10 million people.
During the research, some of the risks discovered within these BMS components include the potential ability for threat actors to:
Remotely lock or unlock doors and gates;
Control physical access of restricted areas;
Deny service (shutdown controllers);
Manipulate alarms and video surveillance;
Control temperature, boilers, air-condition, windows blinds, gas readings, etc.
Through a detailed analysis of the affected components, we provide clear cyber security recommendations for end users, vendors and system integrators, as well as a thorough technical breakdown including Proof of Concept exploit code, which allow unauthenticated remote code execution against the affected BMS products.
https://applied-risk.com/resources/i-own-your-building-management-system
Cyberattacks on government agencies at all levels can compromise private citizen information and leave the United States vulnerable to national security threats. Take these first steps toward stronger cybersecurity hygiene.
Insider's Guide to Cybersecurity for Government eBook: http://aka.ms/govcybersecurityguide
Cyber-I, in association with Intel Security (formerly McAfee), recently delivered an executive over entitled "Security Trends Affecting Security Strategy".
Secure Digital Transformation- Cybersecurity Skills for a Safe Journey to Dev...Troy Marshall
CyCon 3.0 presentation- February 15, 2020
Successful digital transformations don’t begin with technology, they begin with people. As organizations adopt DevOps and cloud and realize the increased release velocity, ensuring the security of software and systems at the same velocity is a necessity but doing so isn’t easy. In this talk you will learn about common security challenges in DevOps and cloud and the skills cybersecurity professionals need to solve these challenges.
"In this issue of “The 10 Most Trusted Companies in
Enterprise Security” Insights Success has shortlisted
those enterprise security providers which are providing
solutions that are systematically profile and
contextualize security threats with a level of detail and
granularity that has never been achieved before."
When you’re planning to move to the cloud and manage a hybrid environment, security is a top concern. But cloud is not necessarily less secure than a traditional environment. In fact, it may be possible to deliver even greater security in a hybrid cloud environment because it offers new and advanced opportunities.
In this eBook, you’ll discover how hackers are using traditional tactics in new ways to attack the cloud. You’ll also find out how the cloud can help you increase security with innovative approaches designed to detect threats long before they threaten your enterprise.
The Future of Security in Australia: a Think Tank Report by BlackBerry. This white paper from BlackBerry, the mobile-native software and services company dedicated to securing the Enterprise of Things, features the analysis and thoughts from a 10-expert roundtable late last year looking at trends in cyber and mobile security.
Is your infrastructure holding you back?Gabe Akisanmi
This ebook will help you connect the dots between
today’s biggest business opportunities and the specific
technology required to seize them. You’ll get the facts
you need to identify where current components may
be falling short—and how the right investments in infrastructure
can lead to better business outcomes while
strengthening your role as a strategic consultant within
your organization.
How the Internet of Things Leads to Better, Faster Crisis CommunicationBlackBerry
The Internet of Things promises to provide a wide range of futuristic benefits, but what is often overlooked is how deeply IoT sensors and data analytics already impact how we live and how we conduct business. This is especially true of crisis communications. Here, IoT has far-reaching implications, both in the present and in the future.
This whitepaper explores how IoT sensors powerfully expand the capabilities of networked crisis communication solutions. It also discusses typical scenarios for incorporating IoT sensor data within emergency preparedness scenarios. Finally, it demonstrates why AtHoc is particularly well suited for using IoT data to deliver faster, more accurate situational awareness in an intuitive manner, without inundating employees with excess data or forcing emergency management staff to become data scientists.
Cloud based security threats with present challenges and opportunities for ma...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Women in Technology Leadership Latest IT news In mid-March of last year, the World Health Organization officially declared the world was facing a pandemic, and countries rushed to enact measures to stem the spread. A popular measure to combat the pandemic was switching companies to remote work. However, with little time to make the transition, many companies had no time to enact proper security measures, leaving them vulnerable to a number of new security risks. One of the most common were attacks against the protocols used by employees to access corporate resources remotely. RDP is perhaps the most popular remote desktop protocol and is used to access Windows or servers. After the switch to remote work, bruteforce attacks against this protocol skyrocketed. In a bruteforce attack, attackers test different usernames and passwords until the correct combination is found-and they gain access to the corporate resources. Over the past year, while the total number of bruteforce attacks has ebbed and flowed, they have continued to increase when compared to pre-pandemic levels. Visit on varindia official site https://www.varindia.com/ to know more. According to Kaspersky’s telemetry, when the world went into lockdown in March 2020, the total number of bruteforce attacks against RDP jumped from 93.1 million worldwide in February 2020 to 277.4 million 2020 in March—a 197 percent increase. The numbers in India went from 1.3 million (1363953) in Feb 2020 to 3.3 million (3301848) in March 2020. From April 2020 onward, monthly attacks never dipped below 300 million, and they reached a new high of 409 million attacks worldwide in November 2020. The highest number of attacks 4.5 million (4586533) in India was recorded in July 2020. In February 2021—nearly one year from the start of the pandemic—there were 377.5 million brute-force attacks—a far cry from the 93.1 million witnessed at the beginning of 2020. India alone witnessed 9.04 million (9048791) attacks in Feb 2021.
The total number of attacks in India from Feb-Dec 2020 was around 37 million (37664893), while the total number of attacks recorded in India during Jan & Feb 2021 are around 15 million (15804209).
The Essential Ingredient for Today's EnterpriseReadWrite
The innovation that comes with the mobile enterprise are immense but problems come with this new world of devices. Namely the huge security concerns that arise. Devices can carry so much important information. How do you control it?
This paper from CIO Custom Solutions Group examines the mobile security landscape, including myths surrounding the risks and threats, and how organizations can establish a solid mobile security strategy.
Government and Education Webinar: Public Sector Cybersecurity Survey - What I...SolarWinds
Join SolarWinds® CISO, Tim Brown, and Group Vice President, Brandon Shopp for a webinar to review and discuss our most recent Public Sector Cybersecurity Survey results, including significant differences across public sector market segments and how confident the respondents were in their teams’ ability to keep up with evolving threats.
Digital workspaces
are becoming powerful competitive differentiators in all industries.
That’s because businesses are seeking new levels of agility in
their processes and service delivery methods. They also want
flexibility for their employees.
Cyber Training: Developing the Next Generation of Cyber AnalystsBooz Allen Hamilton
Part of the solution involves identifying and recruiting top thinkers into the field of cybersecurity, but the more immediate challenge is ensuring that cyber professionals have access to the training and information they need to keep their cyber intelligence analysis skills relevant and effective. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of the threat, education and training must be continuous, and this document focuses on strategies and best practices for developing a cyber force that maintains America’s position as a global leader in the information age.
Attackers are already signaling that they view identity as crucial to modern security, concentrating their attacks on this important control plane as identity-based attacks lead the 300% overall increase in attacks experienced over the last year. This attack concentration is due to the changing shape of the modern workplace, with identity playing such a vital role in every cloud IT environment, cyber-attacks against identities will only continue to increase in their sophistication and persistence.
Are you exploring the best way for your business to save expenses, enhance margin, or reinvest in the coming years? Check out the top technological advancements in business that are beneficial for business expansion and that result in a technology roadmap that has an impact on a number of the organization's strategic goals.
For more information, see: https://www.albiorixtech.com/blog/technology-trends-in-business/
#technology #technologytrends #webappdevelopment #mobileappdevelopment #softwaredevelopment
Cyberattacks on government agencies at all levels can compromise private citizen information and leave the United States vulnerable to national security threats. Take these first steps toward stronger cybersecurity hygiene.
Insider's Guide to Cybersecurity for Government eBook: http://aka.ms/govcybersecurityguide
Cyber-I, in association with Intel Security (formerly McAfee), recently delivered an executive over entitled "Security Trends Affecting Security Strategy".
Secure Digital Transformation- Cybersecurity Skills for a Safe Journey to Dev...Troy Marshall
CyCon 3.0 presentation- February 15, 2020
Successful digital transformations don’t begin with technology, they begin with people. As organizations adopt DevOps and cloud and realize the increased release velocity, ensuring the security of software and systems at the same velocity is a necessity but doing so isn’t easy. In this talk you will learn about common security challenges in DevOps and cloud and the skills cybersecurity professionals need to solve these challenges.
"In this issue of “The 10 Most Trusted Companies in
Enterprise Security” Insights Success has shortlisted
those enterprise security providers which are providing
solutions that are systematically profile and
contextualize security threats with a level of detail and
granularity that has never been achieved before."
When you’re planning to move to the cloud and manage a hybrid environment, security is a top concern. But cloud is not necessarily less secure than a traditional environment. In fact, it may be possible to deliver even greater security in a hybrid cloud environment because it offers new and advanced opportunities.
In this eBook, you’ll discover how hackers are using traditional tactics in new ways to attack the cloud. You’ll also find out how the cloud can help you increase security with innovative approaches designed to detect threats long before they threaten your enterprise.
The Future of Security in Australia: a Think Tank Report by BlackBerry. This white paper from BlackBerry, the mobile-native software and services company dedicated to securing the Enterprise of Things, features the analysis and thoughts from a 10-expert roundtable late last year looking at trends in cyber and mobile security.
Is your infrastructure holding you back?Gabe Akisanmi
This ebook will help you connect the dots between
today’s biggest business opportunities and the specific
technology required to seize them. You’ll get the facts
you need to identify where current components may
be falling short—and how the right investments in infrastructure
can lead to better business outcomes while
strengthening your role as a strategic consultant within
your organization.
How the Internet of Things Leads to Better, Faster Crisis CommunicationBlackBerry
The Internet of Things promises to provide a wide range of futuristic benefits, but what is often overlooked is how deeply IoT sensors and data analytics already impact how we live and how we conduct business. This is especially true of crisis communications. Here, IoT has far-reaching implications, both in the present and in the future.
This whitepaper explores how IoT sensors powerfully expand the capabilities of networked crisis communication solutions. It also discusses typical scenarios for incorporating IoT sensor data within emergency preparedness scenarios. Finally, it demonstrates why AtHoc is particularly well suited for using IoT data to deliver faster, more accurate situational awareness in an intuitive manner, without inundating employees with excess data or forcing emergency management staff to become data scientists.
Cloud based security threats with present challenges and opportunities for ma...eSAT Publishing House
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
Women in Technology Leadership Latest IT news In mid-March of last year, the World Health Organization officially declared the world was facing a pandemic, and countries rushed to enact measures to stem the spread. A popular measure to combat the pandemic was switching companies to remote work. However, with little time to make the transition, many companies had no time to enact proper security measures, leaving them vulnerable to a number of new security risks. One of the most common were attacks against the protocols used by employees to access corporate resources remotely. RDP is perhaps the most popular remote desktop protocol and is used to access Windows or servers. After the switch to remote work, bruteforce attacks against this protocol skyrocketed. In a bruteforce attack, attackers test different usernames and passwords until the correct combination is found-and they gain access to the corporate resources. Over the past year, while the total number of bruteforce attacks has ebbed and flowed, they have continued to increase when compared to pre-pandemic levels. Visit on varindia official site https://www.varindia.com/ to know more. According to Kaspersky’s telemetry, when the world went into lockdown in March 2020, the total number of bruteforce attacks against RDP jumped from 93.1 million worldwide in February 2020 to 277.4 million 2020 in March—a 197 percent increase. The numbers in India went from 1.3 million (1363953) in Feb 2020 to 3.3 million (3301848) in March 2020. From April 2020 onward, monthly attacks never dipped below 300 million, and they reached a new high of 409 million attacks worldwide in November 2020. The highest number of attacks 4.5 million (4586533) in India was recorded in July 2020. In February 2021—nearly one year from the start of the pandemic—there were 377.5 million brute-force attacks—a far cry from the 93.1 million witnessed at the beginning of 2020. India alone witnessed 9.04 million (9048791) attacks in Feb 2021.
The total number of attacks in India from Feb-Dec 2020 was around 37 million (37664893), while the total number of attacks recorded in India during Jan & Feb 2021 are around 15 million (15804209).
The Essential Ingredient for Today's EnterpriseReadWrite
The innovation that comes with the mobile enterprise are immense but problems come with this new world of devices. Namely the huge security concerns that arise. Devices can carry so much important information. How do you control it?
This paper from CIO Custom Solutions Group examines the mobile security landscape, including myths surrounding the risks and threats, and how organizations can establish a solid mobile security strategy.
Government and Education Webinar: Public Sector Cybersecurity Survey - What I...SolarWinds
Join SolarWinds® CISO, Tim Brown, and Group Vice President, Brandon Shopp for a webinar to review and discuss our most recent Public Sector Cybersecurity Survey results, including significant differences across public sector market segments and how confident the respondents were in their teams’ ability to keep up with evolving threats.
Digital workspaces
are becoming powerful competitive differentiators in all industries.
That’s because businesses are seeking new levels of agility in
their processes and service delivery methods. They also want
flexibility for their employees.
Cyber Training: Developing the Next Generation of Cyber AnalystsBooz Allen Hamilton
Part of the solution involves identifying and recruiting top thinkers into the field of cybersecurity, but the more immediate challenge is ensuring that cyber professionals have access to the training and information they need to keep their cyber intelligence analysis skills relevant and effective. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of the threat, education and training must be continuous, and this document focuses on strategies and best practices for developing a cyber force that maintains America’s position as a global leader in the information age.
Attackers are already signaling that they view identity as crucial to modern security, concentrating their attacks on this important control plane as identity-based attacks lead the 300% overall increase in attacks experienced over the last year. This attack concentration is due to the changing shape of the modern workplace, with identity playing such a vital role in every cloud IT environment, cyber-attacks against identities will only continue to increase in their sophistication and persistence.
Are you exploring the best way for your business to save expenses, enhance margin, or reinvest in the coming years? Check out the top technological advancements in business that are beneficial for business expansion and that result in a technology roadmap that has an impact on a number of the organization's strategic goals.
For more information, see: https://www.albiorixtech.com/blog/technology-trends-in-business/
#technology #technologytrends #webappdevelopment #mobileappdevelopment #softwaredevelopment
The 5 most trusted cyber security companies to watch.Merry D'souza
Through this latest edition of Insights Success, we wish to feature organizations that are quite adept in utilizing and adopting these tech-trends in their operations. ‘The 5 Most Trusted Cyber Security Companies to Watch,’ is an edition which will take you on a journey towards the digital security space. So, give it a read and enjoy articles curated by our in-house editorial team.
Modernizing your organization safely takes a clear roadmap and with that in mind we’ve created our new whitepaper on the roadmap to protecting your modern workplace.
OpenTeQ Mobility Management Solutions help your enterprise focus on core skills while managing your enterprise mobility day-to-day operations. Visit: https://www.openteqgroup.com/blogs/enterprise-mobility-challenges
Cybersecurity Trends 2024: Are You Ready?
As technology progresses, threat actors continually adapt their tactics. What considerations should your cybersecurity team prioritize to effectively address the evolving cyber landscape in 2024?
The GRAMAX CYBERSEC presents insights into forthcoming cybersecurity trends, offering frontline intelligence from our experts. The year ahead will be a crucial one in the realm of cybersecurity, with the emergence of new trends that will revolutionize the way organizations shore up their defenses. In this age of interconnected systems, cybersecurity trends emerging in 2024 will transform defense mechanisms significantly and pave the way for a more robust and proactive approach to countering cyber risk.
The Cisco 2010 Midyear Security Report includes:
* Results and analysis from two new Cisco studies -- one focused on employee collaboration and the other on the concerns of IT decision-makers worldwide
* International trends in cyber-security and their potential impact on business
* Insight into how hackers penetrate “soft spots” in enterprise security to steal sensitive data and sell it to the highest bidder
* An update on global spam trends since late 2009 and spam volume predictions for 2010
* Guidance from Cisco security experts to help businesses improve their enterprise security by 2011
CIO's implanting digital transformation strategies are facing increasing challenges on how to migrate security integrated hybrid technologies. Find out here the future of Future Networks today
VMblog - 2020 IT Predictions from 26 Industry Expertsvmblog
Find out what's going on in the world of #artificialintelligence, #machinelearning, #cloud, #kubernetes, #containers, #virtualization, #security, #disasterrecovery, #networking, #data and so much more in 2020. Read these #predictions from 26 of the industry's leading experts to learn more! Hear from industry thought leaders from companies like Altaro, Citrix, Commvault, Datacore, IGEL, Kaspersky, Liquidware, SolarWinds, Veeam, Vembu, VMware and more. And make sure to also read the more than 430+ other expert predictions here: http://bit.ly/2QVorPI at VMblog.com.
In the face of evolving cyber threats, businesses and individuals must stay alert in safeguarding their digital assets. Keeping abreast of the latest cybersecurity trends in 2023 and adopting robust security protocols can help minimize the risk of falling prey to these emerging dangers.
IT Security at the Speed of Business: Security Provisioning with Symantec Dat...Symantec
Today’s data centers are transitioning into software-defined data centers (SDDC). In the SDDC, the core elements of the infrastructure—storage, server and compute, networking, databases, and business applications—are virtualized and delivered as services. The deployment, provisioning, configuration, management and operation of the entire infrastructure is abstracted from hardware and implemented through software. The infrastructure resources across the stack are application-centric, and customers have the ability to provision IT assets across their public cloud, private cloud, and on-premise domains. These SDDC capabilities are intended to enhance an enterprise’s ability to quickly respond to new opportunities and emerging threats.
As a result of the pandemic's transition to remote work, companies have become more exposed to malicious assaults. To combat such attacks, you must keep a close eye on developing cybersecurity trends. The main cybersecurity trends for 2022 will be discussed in this article.
Read more: https://www.cigniti.com/blog/cybersecurity-trends-2022/
Digital disruption is a top-of-mind issue in the C-suites of every industry. Senior executives of traditional firms are looking over their shoulders and wondering if they are in the crosshairs of a digital insurgent.
Presentation delivered by Pablo Junco to the HOLA Community at Microsoft. The objective was to provide guidelines to people how want to become a mentor (or improve their skills as mentor.
HOLA stands for Hispanic & Latino Organization of Leaders in Action. HOLA provides professional development and networking opportunities for members and allies of the LatinX and Hispanic communities.
Hablando de blockchain en la Uniandes de ColombiaPablo Junco
os comparto mi presentacion de Blockchain y el papel de arquitecto de aplicaciones para los estudiantes de la maestría de arquitectura de tecnología de la Universidad de los Andes en Colombia.
Creciendo el negocio con uso responsable de IAPablo Junco
Presentación utilizada por Pablo Junco (CTO de Microsoft para Latina America) sobre como crecer el negocio con un uso responsable de la INTELIGENCIA ARTIFICIAL #AI aplicada al sector financiero. La sesión fue parte del congreso organizado por Asobancaria "Innovación y Transformación Digital – Meeting ON 2020".
Information Protection is the ability to positively control and report on the use and modification of your most important information assets. In this whitepaper you will find useful information to protect your organization with Microsoft Technologies,
NEO DevCon 2019 - Blockchain Use Cases and Enterprise Needs Pablo Junco
Presentation delivered by Pablo Junco (WW Director at Microsoft) during the NEO DevCon 2019 in Seattle. A session about Microsoft experiences delivering blockchain projects in the enterprise.
White paper - Customer Experience TransformationPablo Junco
This white paper highlights the business value of customer experience as a differentiator and explores three critical enablers to guide organizations embarking on the transformation journey.
White Paper - Charting the course, An odyssey of Operational TransformationPablo Junco
Operational Transformation (OT) is about changing enterprise’s business operations to serve their digital customers’ needs and expectations.
OT is Core to every Enterprise’s Digital Transformation journey focusing on operational excellence with a customer centric approach.
Enterprises are increasingly rely on Emergency Technologies such as Cognitive Services, Intelligent Agents/Apps, Internet of Things, and Value-Exchange Apps (Blockchain) to create differentiating operational digital capabilities to drive sustainable business & shareholder value.
Whitepaper - IoT Maturity Model (IoTMM)Pablo Junco
This maturity model is a response to an underlying issue encountered in Microsoft Services’ experiences working with large and global organizations on their IoT deployments.
Whitepaper - IoT adoption in digital transformation journeys (v2.0)Pablo Junco
The Internet of Things or IoT is disrupting organizations across industries such as Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail. Microsoft is undertaking Digital Transformation projects with over 1,000 customers, and with many of them, we had observed that IoT is the enabler of the business change.
However, Digital transformation isn’t necessarily about solving new business problems. It’s about how to solve existing problems more quickly, economically, efficiently, securely and with an extensible design that allows customers to iterate and evolve more rapidly.
The trends driving Digital Transformation include business, people, technology, and generational factors. Organizations are quickly experimenting with new technologies as the time between hype and adoption has shortened. The maturity of technologies such as IoT plus the acceptability of consumers is helping organizations to unlock the value of connecting things. In response, organizations are digitally transforming their business models to shift how they deliver value and drive efficiency.
This paper introduces a new engagement model based on Microsoft’ experience helping organizations succeed while adopting IoT as part of their Digital Transformation Journey.
Supply chain with blockchain - Solution BriefPablo Junco
Blockchain technology is uniquely positioned to help create trust, transparency, collaboration, and accountability between parties in supply chain scenarios. The technology allows supply chain participants to track an asset’s status as it moves across a custodial chain and share information on its origins and how it’s handled along the way.
Microsoft Services can help you to quickly start your blockchain project to transform your supply chain with blockchain on Microsoft Azure. The Supply Chain with Blockchain Offer provides a framework to accelerate time to value through integrations and extensions to the cloud services and consuming apps you already use, and innovate with confidence on an open, trusted, and globally available platform.
Blockchain is one of the top emerging technologies revolutionizing today’s business models. Blockchain is a technology for exchanging value between trusted participants without the need of intermediaries and can help lower transaction costs.
Microsoft is your strategic partner to assess the value of blockchain for your business and deliver a proof of value with the right solution for you to solve your business challenges.
Microsoft Services provides a three-week engagement to help you to understand the potential impact of blockchain technology, determine your business scenario suitable for blockchain, and develop a proof of concept (PoC) with a small initial investment.
e-Book Transforming the external value chain and back office with Digital Ec...Pablo Junco
Read this eBook “Start thinking like a digital company” for a peek into how Microsoft Services can help your business transform its external value chain and back office with Digital Ecosystem and Operations.
Topics include:
• Supply chain
• Trade finance
• Know your customer
• Digital DNA
• Open API
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2. Tableof
contents
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The new security
landscape
04
Digital
transformation
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New challenges
for security
professionals
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Have you adapted
to the modern
threat landscape?
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A new approach to
security
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The 4 pillars of cyber
resilience
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Developing a cyber
resilient strategy
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Improving your security
posture with Microsoft
Enterprise Services
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Conclusion
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The new security landscape
Recent high-profile incidents have brought cybersecurity to the forefront of mainstream
conversations as the impact of attacks has been felt around the world by organizations and
individuals alike. Unfortunately, given current trends, organizations will continue to see
sophisticated cyber-attacks for the foreseeable future. Sustained ransomware campaigns,
spear phishing, and other high-profile attacks continue to highlight the need for an
advanced and comprehensive cybersecurity strategy.
The statistics clearly indicate the adverse impact cyber threats have on today’s businesses.
With this in mind, Microsoft has invested heavily in the security domain to enable
organizations to mitigate the effects of the evolving threat landscape and empower them
to succeed in the new norm of daily cyber-attacks.
The main challenges organizations are facing with respect to threat protection include: vulnerability
to advanced attacks, the inability to detect malicious activities, and difficulty in responding to threats
quickly. The escalation in the number of threats and their corresponding level of sophistication leave
many organizations more exposed to risk. With the volume of threats and evolving capabilities of
attackers, detection of malicious activity has become increasingly difficult for security professionals.
Security teams often struggle to understand how to respond to threats and the length of time to
respond can add to the devastating effects of a breach.
You need to ask yourself:
How will your organization protect itself from advanced cyber-attacks?
What are you doing to detect suspicious behavior within the organization and
beyond?
What processes and tools will you implement to quickly respond to threats and
quickly recover from the effects of an attack?
Before we take a deeper look at how Microsoft Enterprise Services can help customers with these
threat scenarios, it is important to understand how the IT industry and threat potential has evolved
over the last decade or so.
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Digital transformation
To be competitive in the marketplace businesses are seeking to transform and innovate
using new and powerful technologies. The proliferation and availability of cloud, mobile,
and IoT technologies is fueling major disruptions in once-settled markets as:
1. Digital native startups leverage this new technology to disrupt longstanding
business models.
2. Existing organizations are driving digital transformation to empower
employees, optimize operations, and deliver value to customers.
As organizations make the transition to a digital workplace they are often overwhelmed by a new set
of security challenges which can impact innovation and speed to market. Likewise, Microsoft is seeing
major transformation of almost all aspects of IT and information security. Several key trends stand out
as Information Security departments operate in a world that has changed dramatically since the
current generation of security best practices were established.
These trends are the IT transformation components that support the business’s digital transformation
and will provide both challenges and opportunities for information security
at your organization.
DATA POINT
86% of CEOs considered digital transformation
their #1 priority; believing technology will transform
their business more than any other global trend.
Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2015/02/27/new-pwc-
survey-ceos-embrace-digital-transformation/
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5. Enterprise IT is cloud hybrid
In an age where almost all enterprises are embracing digital transformation, it will be
difficult for IT, business, and security stakeholders to resist the value proposition of cloud
computing as vendors offer compelling new capabilities exclusively through cloud services.
However, it will also be difficult and undesirable for many organizations to shut down all
on-premises datacenters and networks due to a variety of reasons including dependence
on legacy applications, bandwidth, unreliable connectivity in some geographies, and
regulatory reasons. While Microsoft offers best in class solutions for these challenges, we
still anticipate that enterprise IT departments will be operating under hybrid cloud models
for the foreseeable future during this transition.
“We have begun our journey to both
private and public cloud platforms for
select applications. Having met our
strict compliance, security, and risk
requirements, Microsoft was our choice
as a strategic partner in this journey.
“
Keith Silvestri
Chief Technology Officer, KeyBank
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Technology mobility and volume is exploding
With expectations set for the continued growth of mobile devices, organizations will have to improve
their ability to manage the variance of trustworthiness across devices to better balance risk and
productivity. Even so, users will continue to demand a world-class experience within native
applications versus the limited productivity functionality of most current Mobile Device Management
(MDM) solutions.
Pervasive digital transformation and IoT
Businesses will be digitally transforming to compete with cloud-native startups that seek to disrupt
existing industries and markets. This will likely drive a massive increase in Internet of Things (IoT)
device adoption and cloud service adoption to accommodate the need for storage, processing,
analytics, blockchain, management, etc. Since personal computer risk strategies don’t apply to most
IoT devices, the IoT space will create increased challenges around new ways of managing device risk.
Increasingly hostile environment
Both the attack surface of the modern enterprise and the volume and sophistication of threats are
continuing to rise. Fortunately, we have observed that attackers tend to follow rational behavior as
they manage their return (successful attacks) for their investment (time and resources on an attack,
developing or acquiring tools, and learning skills). Due to this, most attackers tend to favor the
simplest and cheapest means to achieve their goals. Most attackers will choose a proven method such
as an existing tool or a freely available toolkit before developing a new tool or technique.
Despite this advantage, one challenge is that many well-funded attackers such as nation states have
already developed a large library of sophisticated tools that cost very little to use against another
target. While not the norm, these well-funded attackers also have the time and capital to invest in new
strategies that are necessary for some targets. Over time, these new tools make their way into the tool
kit of the standard monetarily motivated attacker, forcing modern day security to compete not just
with standard threats but with nation state capabilities. This problem is further enhanced as certain
state actors target key economic and infrastructure targets as part of their campaigns.
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6. New challenges for
security professionals
While the challenges are significant, there is also
a massive opportunity for organizations to solve
longstanding security problems with this next
generation of computing. Digital transformation
provides unique challenges for security
administrators but may also offer some
surprising solutions.
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Software as a Service (SaaS) adoption to increase
collaboration and agility
SaaS provides rapid value without many of the challenges of traditional software deployment and
maintenance. While IT professionals typically do not have to update this software, they do need to be
aware of their use, assess their trustworthiness, and manage the available security controls. One of the
major challenges of this is that 80% of users reported using non-approved SaaS apps.² Is your IT
department ready to mitigate shadow IT while providing the tools your employees need to be
productive?
Demand for a 1st class mobile experience
With many workplaces supporting a Bring Your Own Device or Choose Your Own Device model, users
increasingly get to decide what devices and apps they can use to get their job done. This variety of
devices and platforms create a challenge for IT professionals to meet the goal of providing a great user
experience on secure mobile devices. Business users need fully functional applications for creating
value on corporate data and capabilities beyond the limited functionality that come with most MDM
providers.
Internet of Things
With the proliferation of IoT, the manageability and visibility of these devices varies greatly from PC to
mobile devices in the following ways:
• Higher volume and limited functionality
• Limited resources to run traditional agents
• Frequently collect new forms of telemetry with new privacy and security implications
Cloud required to support analytics and IoT
management
Even if IT departments are not adopting cloud platforms and infrastructure for its own value
propositions, many of the new IoT architectures require cloud services to collect and report on IoT
scenarios. This forces IT professionals to evaluate the trustworthiness and integration of controls for
these platforms. Fortunately, this comes with both security and cost benefits as organizations report
11% lower IT support costs for worker solutions in the cloud.³
2 https://enterprise.microsoft.com/en-gb/articles/digital-transformation/10-stats-that-reveal-the-changing-face-of-it-security/
3 Forrester Total Economic Impact Analysis, “Improving Firstline Worker Performance With Microsoft Office 365”
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Have you adapted to the
modern threat landscape?
While the digital workplace has evolved, so too has the threat landscape across the globe, with hackers
using more sophisticated methods to compromise users and networks. The days of young hackers sitting at
a desk writing malware for notoriety is no longer the norm. They still exist, but more often than not today’s
attackers are mostly people or organizations out for financial gain or nation states that are trying to move
their agenda forward. The way that hackers approach cyber-attacks today has dramatically changed, and
organizations must therefore adapt and change the ways that they protect themselves.
In addition, today’s cyber-attacks are often more rapid and disruptive than the types of attacks that security
programs have traditionally encountered. Much like the worms of decades past, these attacks happen very
rapidly because they are often fully automated and self-propagate once launched. The attacks are designed
to be disruptive to operations by encrypting, and sometimes destroying, data. We can help-Microsoft’s
built-in, intelligent capabilities work together to more effectively govern data and save it from both
inadvertent employee leaks and advanced threats.
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst
Not long ago, the mindset was for security professionals to do everything within their power to protect their
organization from being breached. But times have changed, and the approach to cybersecurity has evolved
into one in which the mindset should be that a breach has already occurred or will occur. Every organization
should assume compromise, whether it’s a legitimate employee accessing information they shouldn’t by
accident or a hacker that’s been sitting quietly monitoring network traffic for clear text passwords or by
using a user name password acquired by social engineering. Therefore, you need to ask yourself, if one of
your user’s account credentials or workstation has been compromised, what actions are you able to take to
minimize the fallout and prevent someone from gaining a foothold in your organization? What solutions do
you have in place to not only detect, but to recover from a breach? With the average cost of a breach
hovering just under $4 million per incident⁴ , a quick response is vital for your organization. Today,
organizations need to focus on both the prevention of attacks and post-breach detection and response.
A new approach to security
The digital world in which we now live requires a new approach to how we protect, detect and respond
to security threats. In November 2015, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella delivered a keynote that highlighted
this need for a new approach to security. He showcased how innovations in Windows 10, Office 365,
Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite work in tandem with each other, and with
solutions from the security ecosystem, to deliver a holistic and agile security platform for today’s
enterprise.
Satya also shared how Microsoft uses its unique insight into the threat landscape to create an intelligent
security graph that we use to inform how we protect all endpoints, better detect attacks and accelerate
our response. The Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph is powered by inputs we receive from across
on-premises and Microsoft cloud services such as Office 365, Azure, and Windows. Each month, there
are an average of 400 billion emails analyzed for spam and malware, 450 billion user authentications
processed, 1 billion Windows devices updated, and 18 billion web pages scanned.5
“As the world continues to change and
business requirements evolve, some things
are consistent: a customer’s demand for
security and privacy. We firmly believe that
every customer deserves a trustworthy
cloud experience and we are committed to
delivering that experience in the cloud.
“Satya Nadella
CEO, Microsoft
4 Ponemon Institute, “2017 Cost of Data Breach Study: Global Overview”
5 Anderson, Brad. “Secure and Manage your Digital Transformation.” Microsoft. 2017. https://myignite.microsoft.com/
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What makes the cloud safer than on-premises?
The cloud has significant advantages for solving today’s cybersecurity problems. In contrast
to on-premises computing, cloud services can detect and respond in almost real time. This
response time advantage can be attributed to the continuous logging of activities and
access to security event information across millions of devices with many millions of
network connections. Behavioral analysis, anomaly detection and sophisticated statistical
algorithms are used and continuously updated to help identify potential security incidents
as they occur.
“We wanted the best of both worlds—
easy-to-use consumer-based technology
that had the security, privacy, regulatory
compliance, and governance of a
corporate solution.
“Mansour Zadeh
Senior Vice President and Global CIO, Smithfield Foods
Drawing from this telemetry, the Microsoft Intelligent Security Graph derives unparalleled
insights to help organizations better protect against, detect, and respond to attacks. Added
to this benefit is the ‘community effect’: When one organization is attacked, other
organizations can immediately benefit from Microsoft’s analysis of that attack. Thanks to the
annual investment in security of more than $1 billion and the unprecedented amount of data
collected and analyzed, Microsoft’s security offerings in the cloud are stronger than ever.
Another advantage of the cloud is that it allows you to transfer some of the day-to-day responsibilities for
cybersecurity to the cloud provider. More than 60 percent of organizations report having too few information
security professionals, and the gap between qualified professionals and unfilled positions is expected to reach
1.8 million by 2022.⁶ This shortage inevitably means there aren’t enough resources to secure all of your assets
and, left untended, attackers can achieve their objectives using techniques ranging from exploiting
unpatched firmware, devices, and operating systems, to configuration weaknesses and human errors by users
or administrators. Enterprise-level cloud providers–due to their scale, resources, and investments in
defending their platform and their customers, are able to provide capabilities and security intelligence that
few companies can match, enabling you to focus your team and budget on other parts of security.
Furthermore, while many companies take a “bolt-on” approach to security by adding additional layers and
applications, Microsoft’s broad set of services provide a holistic ecosystem of integrated security capabilities
that work with an organization’s existing technology investments. This takes the integration burden off our
customers so that they can focus on managing risk and attacks instead of integration work.
Bottom line: the static infrastructure and tools of an on-premises environment cannot keep up with an
ever-changing landscape of threats. The security built into Microsoft’s cloud—from billions of inputs—can.
Moving to the cloud will eliminate the burden (and possible delay) that security patches and server upgrades
represent to your IT teams, enabling you to focus on delivering value to your customers while secure in the
knowledge your enterprise is protected.
“Itquicklybecameclearthatourdatawouldbesaferin
the Microsoft cloud than in our own datacenters. After
all, Microsoft is an expert in enterprise security.
“Jeff Heyde
Director of Global Systems, Dana Holding Corporation
Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it. The Microsoft Cloud is built on
four foundational principles-security, privacy, compliance, and transparency. Our Trusted Cloud Initiative
drives a set of guidelines, requirements, and processes for delivering rigorous levels of engineering, legal,
and compliance support for our cloud services. To learn more, you are encouraged to visit the
Microsoft Trust Center.
6 Reed, Jason, Yiru Zhong, Lynn Terwoerds, and Joyce Brocaglia. “The 2017 Global Information Security Workforce Study: Women in
Cybersecurity.” Frost Sullivan. 2017. https://iamcybersafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/WomensReport.pdf
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The 4 pillars of
cyber resilience
From a security operations standpoint, the top
security priorities for most organizations can be
bucketed into four areas:
1. Safeguarding user identities and controlling access to resources
2. Defending against advanced threats and recovering quickly if attacked
3. Protecting sensitive and confidential information
4. Gaining visibility into and control over security tools
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Identity access
management
Protect users’ identities
control access to valuable
resources based on user risk
level with conditional access
Threat
protection
Strengthen your pre-breach
posture with built-in protection
recover quickly with automated
remediation when attacked
Information
protection
Protect documents and emails
with encryption that travels
with them as they move inside
and outside your organization
Security
management
Gain end-to-end visibility of
your organization’s security
and manage policy centrally
Microsoft has organized these needs into four pillars we focus on solving for customers: identity and
access management, threat protection, information protection and security management. By building
and implementing a security roadmap for these four areas which focuses on your critical business
priorities, you will build resilience against cyber-attacks into your business and let you focus on what
you do best.
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Developing a cyber resilient
strategy
Microsoft is focused on enabling a secure modern enterprise that meets both security
and productivity needs. With Microsoft Enterprise Services as your partner, you’ll have full
access to our expertise in the Microsoft portfolio and our capabilities, including those of our
global network of professionals and partners. We have proven results that demonstrate our
ability to lead change and deliver on our promise--to empower you to accelerate the value
you imagine and realize from your digital experiences.
Microsoft provides organizations of all sizes guidance, strategies, and solutions so they can
build a cyber-resilient foundation for their business. We can help you establish a baseline of
your current security posture, then assist with the development of a security roadmap and
subsequent implementation of technology to secure the four pillars mentioned earlier in
the paper: identity and access management, threat protection, information protection, and
security management. This allows you to focus on the business of IT rather than wondering,
“What do we do next?”
Finally, we can help you develop cyber resilient strategies based on the security tenets of
protect, detect, and respond, as follows:
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Protect
Organizations are vulnerable across identity, apps and data, their devices and their infrastructure.
Microsoft has built solutions for each of these potential attack vectors to help protect organizations
from cyber-attacks.
Identity. We can help secure your end-user identities while leveraging our machine learning,
behavioral analytics, and signals from the threat landscape to identify vulnerabilities and reduce the
attack surface.
Apps and data. To protect your apps and data, Microsoft has developed solutions to help you secure
email, data, and even your app ecosystem.
Devices. Microsoft has solutions to help protect your devices to prevent encounters, isolate malicious
threats, and to control execution of untrusted applications or code.
Infrastructure. We can also secure your cloud infrastructure by leveraging built-in controls across
servers, apps, databases and networks.
Detect
As organizations rapidly grow, the tendency is to rely more and more on technology and enable
mobile and flexible working conditions. This causes increasing operational complexity within the
organization and makes it more challenging to detect suspicious behavior. Realizing this, Microsoft
has built several solutions and features to help our customers gain visibility across their organization.
Identity. Detect suspicious activities and compromised user credentials.
Apps and data. Detect risky apps and malicious data, identify and mitigate shadow IT, inspect and
revoke file sharing.
Devices. Detect advanced threats, deviations from policies, abnormal behavior.
Infrastructure. Detect advanced persistent threats, advanced threats to hybrid workloads, and
compromised systems.
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Respond
In the event of a breach, the ability to respond quickly is paramount to maintaining your
business operations. Like protection and detection, Microsoft has broken down response
solutions across the organization by identifying the attack vectors. If organizations can
cohesively respond across the potential attack vectors, they will be able to rebound more
quickly from an attack.
Identity. Respond to compromised identities by elevating access requirements based on
risk assessment.
Apps and data. Respond to compromised apps and data by removing or monitoring
access.
Devices. Respond dynamically to any suspicious device or application.
Infrastructure. Respond early to compromised workloads across hybrid infrastructure by
utilizing standard procedures enabled by automated machine learning processes.
“The beauty of having these solutions is
that they help secure us against inbound
threats and monitor everything happening
on our devices.
“Mike Fermin
Assistant District Attorney, San Bernardino County
Improving your security
posture with Microsoft
Enterprise Services
Organizations need to protect themselves and Microsoft is
positioned to help. Microsoft Enterprise Services has the
industry expertise, technology and resources to help you
better protect your business and critical assets. Our
solutions help organizations integrate security capabilities
within Microsoft products and provide solutions that help
you protect, detect, and respond to cyber threats.
Cybersecurity Essentials
Our Cybersecurity Essentials solution is delivered by Microsoft Enterprise Services experts who help
you assess risks and implement capabilities to protect your environment against cybersecurity attacks,
detect attacks and respond to them as they happen.
Assess your cyber risk exposure and create an improvement roadmap
Assess cyber risk exposure
Identify cloud security additions to bridge security gaps
Plan your personalized cloud security
Plan your personalized cloud security Protect your identity platform
from advanced cyber-attacks
Upgrade existing Active Directory
Harden Active Directory against cyber-attacks
Secure endpoints
Protect assets using secure cloud identity
Protect virtualized workloads
Secure privileged access from advanced cyber-attacks
Workstations for privileged users
Control privileged access
Dedicated environment for Domain Administrators
Detect, investigate and Respond to suspicious activity
Detect advanced threats on devices
Detect advanced Identity threats
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Information Protection
Our Microsoft Enterprise Services experts deliver our Information Protection solution to
help you detect, classify, protect, and monitor your data on-premises and in cloud
environments:
Prepare modern identity and secure admin operation for cloud-based services
Create a hybrid identity environment
Protect Administrator operations for cloud services
Enable information protection capabilities based on your requirements by
detecting, classifying, protecting, and monitoring data
Data discovery, classification labeling, and rights management
IT shadowing prevention, cloud data leakage prevention, cloud data visibility, and
abnormal usage behavior detection on cloud data
Accidental data leakage prevention in Windows 10 devices
Data protection for mobile devices including Android and iPhone
Threat Modeling for Security Risk
Threat modeling is widely used inside Microsoft and is one of the mandatory approaches our
developers use to build secure applications, systems, and services, and is a part of our Security
Development Lifecycle (SDL). The SDL has a critical role in embedding security and privacy in our
software and culture at Microsoft.
Microsoft Enterprise Services has developed specialized security assessment capabilities that we have
deployed in the real world. Benefit from our wide-ranging knowledge and experience on threat
modeling for systems on premises and in the cloud, and our commitment to promoting security in our
services.
The threat modeling process can be used to identify which threats are most likely to affect your IT
systems and environment. Having a solid understanding of your infrastructure and how your
applications are implemented will enable you to prioritize which threats are the greatest risk and
respond with appropriate countermeasures. Threat modeling’s structured approach is more cost
efficient—and more effective—than haphazardly applying security features without knowing what
threats to address.
Threat modeling accomplishes the following:
Defines the security of an application
Identifies and investigates potential threats and vulnerabilities
Brings justification for security features at both the hardware and software levels for
identified threats
Identifies a logical thought process in defining the security of a system
Results in finding architecture bugs earlier and more often
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13. Conclusion
If you’re ready to take the next step into a more secure future, we can get you there.
With internal access to the full platform stack and product engineering teams, Microsoft
Enterprise Services is uniquely positioned to bring together product, services, and device
offerings to provide innovate new solutions and resolve longstanding security challenges.
You can benefit from our more than 35 years of commitment to promoting security in our
products and services, to helping our customers and partners protect their assets, and
working to help ensure that their data is kept secure and private.
Microsoft Enterprise Services can help get you started on your journey to a cyber-resilient
foundation and help you address the following business challenges:
Understanding current cyber risk exposure and planning a security roadmap
Protecting the Identity platform and endpoints against cyber-attacks
Securing privileged access against cyber-attacks
Detect, investigate and respond to sophisticated cyber-attacks
EMPOWERING BUSINESS FOR WHAT’S NEXT
We invite you to schedule a Cybersecurity Improvement Workshop with us. This one-day workshop
is designed to determine your security posture and identify a prioritized list of cybersecurity initiatives
to bridge gaps. During the workshop we’ll start by discussing your top business priorities and concerns
and define the scope of effort needed to help you better protect against and detect and respond to
threats. The goal is simple – a small investment in time could mitigate against significant loss of data,
credibility and downtime letting you focus on what you do best: delivering value to your customers.
When will you invest in a safer future?
Contact your Microsoft representative to learn more. For more information about Consulting and
Support Solutions from Microsoft, visit www.microsoft.com/services.
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14. HOW DOES YOUR CYBERSECURITY POSTURE NEED TO CHANGE?
EMPOWERING BUSINESS FOR WHAT’S NEXT
What’snext?
No matter where you are on your digital transformation journey,
Microsoft Enterprise Services can help.
Empower employees
Empower a high-quality, committed
digital workforce to work as a team
anywhere, on any device, with
seamless data access—helping you
innovate, meet compliance
requirements, and deliver
exceptional customer experiences.
Engage customers
Reimagine the customer experience for a
digital world and deliver more value
through insights and relevant offers by
engaging customers in natural, highly
personal, and innovative ways throughout
the customer journey—driving increased
relevance, loyalty, and profitability.
Optimize operations
Gain breakthrough insights into risk
and operational models with
advanced analytics solutions and act
on real-time intelligence to optimize
risk management and meet
regulatory requirements.
Transform products
Drive agility with open, connected systems
and automated digital processes to
support new product development and
optimize distribution channel strategies,
while meeting the security, privacy, and
transparency expectations of customers,
regulators, and shareholders.
Credits
Many subject-matter experts from various groups at Microsoft contributed to
the conceptualization and articulation of the story contained in this document.
Binil Arvind Pillai
Director of Business Programs,
Microsoft Enterprise Services
Nindy Hunter
Sr. Business Program Manager
for Modern Workplace,
Microsoft Enterprise Services
Andrej Budja
Architect, Cybersecurity,
Microsoft Enterprise Services
Contributors
Gus Gustafson
Director Business Programs,
Microsoft Enterprise Services
Eric Daigle
Director Business Programs,
Microsoft Enterprise Services
Amy McCullough
Director Product Marketing,
Microsoft Enterprise Services
Conor Bronsdon
Consultant,
Olive Goose
Joe Turick
Consultant,
Olive Goose
Kurt Frampton
Sr. Designer,
Simplicity Consulting
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