How Microsoft Helps Keep Your Data Safe from Constantly Evolving Threats

1. Task Force
Office 365 Security
How Microsoft Helps Keep
Your Data Safe from Constantly
Evolving Threats

2. Introduction
Data security is a constant arms race.
As developers build stronger walls and more secure
protocols, hackers fashion more sophisticated techniques
to break through.
It’s why Microsoft created their Elite Security Teams:
to identify and neutralize potential threats.
By simulating and defending against the latest cyber
attack strategies, their war games work to secure the
Office 365 Cloud for your sensitive data.

3. Simulated Attacks
for Real Security
How the game is played.
The Attack Team simulates real attacks on
Microsoft data.
The Defense Team stays constantly vigilant
to swiftly identify and respond to these
simulated attacks.

4. The Attack Team:
Getting in the Enemy’s Head
Think like a hacker.
The best way to keep your data secure is to think
like the people trying to get their hands on it.
The Attack Team is a group of highly-skilled IT security
experts with the background to understand the tactics
hackers use to break through security and the know-how
to evolve existing techniques and find new ways to attack.
Their mission: to stage and perform targeted, persistent,
internal attacks.

5. The Defense Team:
Ever-Vigilant
Knowing is half the battle.
Highly trained security experts, the Defense Team works
to stop attacks before they start, repair data, defend
against breaches and intrusions, and prevent vulnerabilities.
Their mission: to sift through petabytes of data and identify
known exploits while searching for “unknown unknowns:”
types of attacks so new they haven’t been catalogued yet.
When the Defense Team identifies an attack, the race
is on to contain and repair, minimizing loss of data.

6. Attack Team Metrics
These metrics measure the effectiveness of existing
security and provide a benchmark for improvement.
1-Mean Time to Compromise:
From the start of the simulation, how
long does it take to get a foothold?
2-Mean Time to Privilege Escalation:
How long, from the start of the simulation,
to full compromise?

7. Defense Team Metrics
1-Estimated Time to Detection:
How fast any attempted attacks
were discovered.
2-Estimated Time to Recovery:
How quickly the Attack Team was
neutralized and the breach repaired.
The Defense Team is able to constantly
thwart potential threats based on these
two metrics:

8. Peace of Mind with
the Office 365 Cloud
To learn more about our Elite Security Teams and
Microsoft’s commitment to keeping your data private
and protected, download our new eBook today.
https://aka.ms/workplace-watchdog
Together, the Elite Security Teams enable Microsoft
to better anticipate the next stage of data security,
continually identifying threats and closing potential
vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.
The Modern
Workplace
Watchdog

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