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With the right tools, technologies, and framework in place, it is possible to detect and mitigate the damage caused by a cyberattack and shut it down in a timely fashion. With cyber criminals on the rise, business leaders and technology buyers need to understand how to reduce the risk of a vicious cloud attack. Read what Forbes is saying are the five steps leaders ought to consider.

Council Post: Five Ways To Reduce Your Cloud Security Blast Radius There are five critical steps that can help your organization reduce the cloud attack surface and restrict the blast zone if an intrusion occurs.

Real-world deployments and attacks are shaping the future of Zero Trust. The Microsoft Security framework, key trends, and maturity model can accelerate your journey toward securing all clouds and all platforms.

Microsoft 365 offers solutions that help organizations adapt to the complexity of the modern environment—including the ever-evolving hybrid workplace. The Zero Trust model helps protect people, devices, apps, and data wherever they’re located.

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Microsoft can help manage the tools to develop and launch successful security-focused solutions. Read about how PROTORIA, Samsung's retail service provider in Ukraine, reviewed its digital assets and applied a layered approach to update its long-term strategy as part of managing its multichannel retail challenges. With the delivery of new multicloud capabilities within Microsoft 365, they created tiered priorities for three years, resulting in a 20% cost savings each year.

PROTORIA modernizes its IT infrastructure with Microsoft Azure and the guidance of Cloud Services PROTORIA, the retail service provider for Samsung in Ukraine, wanted to update its long-term strategy with cloud adoption plans. Cloud Services served as PROTORIA’s trusted advisor and migration partner in this endeavor. What began with a workshop grew to a three-year collaboration involving migra...

Fact: 4.5 million employees left their jobs in November 2021. The Great Resignation has made it easier for departing employees to expose, leak, or exfiltrate intellectual property, posing significant challenges in keeping sensitive data secure. Departing employees make up the second-largest cause of a successful data breach, only behind hackers. What are companies doing to fight this? Is training enough? Read about all the factors concerning leaders and what business decision makers are doing to be proactive about identifying insider security risks and systems from harm.

Hybrid work and the Great Resignation lead to cybersecurity concerns Code42’s study goes into detail about the risks facing cybersecurity leaders and practitioners in the wake of the Great Resignation.

Cybersecurity threats are becoming more sophisticated, and end users need solutions that provide an end-to-end, secured ecosystem across their identities, data, endpoints, infrastructure, and networks. Solutions like Microsoft 365 Defender, Microsoft Sentinel, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud help deliver rapid, intelligent responses. Review the infographic for details about how to use them to integrate threat protection.

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Microsoft empowers organizations to get ahead of today’s complex threat landscape using an integrated security information and event management (SIEM)and extended detection and response (XDR) toolset. This infographic illustrates how when solutions like Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft 365 Defender, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud are used together, they can secure email, documents, identity, apps, and endpoints. It looks at capabilities for infrastructure and multi-cloud platforms as well.

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Asset management firm Bridgewater Associates wanted to modernize their cloud strategy to order to support a more mobile workforce, share data securely, and access data from anywhere. They collaborated with Microsoft to adapt its Zero Trust strategy using Microsoft 365—a framework that assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originates from an open network. This led them to use Azure AD as an identity solution, enabling employees to use single sign-on (SSO) to all Microsoft applications and other cloud services they need to do their jobs.

Bridgewater invests in secure remote work with a Zero Trust security model using Microsoft 365 Microsoft customer stories. See how Microsoft tools help companies run their business.

Microsoft empowers organizations to get ahead of today’s complex threat landscape using an integrated security information and event management (SIEM)and extended detection and response (XDR) toolset. This infographic illustrates how when solutions like Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft 365 Defender, and Microsoft Defender for Cloud are used together, they can secure email, documents, identity, apps, and endpoints. It looks at capabilities for infrastructure and multi-cloud platforms as well.

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Technology leaders can focus on their company's core service, in large part thanks to cloud modernization in the digital world. This presents the opportunity for a huge boost in the growth and strategy of the organization across all departments. But how clear is the real concept of modernization? We do know one thing: IT leaders are constantly looking to achieve transformational results in the cloud while spending more time assessing new, more efficient work processes.

In this article, you'll learn what modernization means for CIOs who want to improve their modern business outlook.

Council Post: What Does Modernization Mean To CIOs? Too many CIOs are faced with a hugely expensive, time-consuming and risk-laden venture when it comes to trying to update these business processes and make them cloud-ready.

Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) is enabling digital collaboration in the wake of the global pandemic and demands from employees for increased flexibility for remote and hybrid work.

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Microsoft Security solutions provide protection across all cloud platforms, endpoints, and devices by combining security, compliance, identity, and management capabilities. You can protect data and simplify data control with security as a service using Microsoft 365.

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In 2020, when New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP) had to shift about a third of its employees to remote work in response to COVID-19, it saw Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop as a natural choice—delivering faster connection speeds, more robust scalability, and multifactor authentication with access to both cloud and on-premises applications. The shift proved 90% faster over traditional VPN connections—important for a department responsible for moving a billion gallons of water in and out of the city each day.

Public agency enables remote work in days, adds users 90% faster, and scales on demand When COVID-19 hit in 2020, New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP) used Azure Virtual Desktop to move roughly 2,000 employees to remote work in a matter of days—90 percent faster than it could have using VPN connections (and without the need for new hardware). NYC DEP also u...