Roger Halbheer on Security
Now for something completely different: Last week Alex Kipman, the inventor of HoloLens and Kinect visited Zürich and held a lecture at the ETH Zürich. A really fascinating view behind the scenes and the challenges when you develop a device like that.
Yesterday we announced new Surface devices coming this holiday. Devices like Surface Laptop 3, Surface Pro 7 and Surface Pro X. Additionally, we launched Surface Earbuds. What really rocked is, what is coming next Holiday 2020: Surface Neo and Surface Duo – dual screen devices with an optimized Windows 10X. This opens a whole new…
During RSA we announced that we will bring a cloud-native SIEM/SOAR solution to the market. Since then the team worked very hard to drive it forward. The number of private and public preview customers we had proved that it hit a clear need in the market. Since yesterday it moved to production and is generally…
It is not the first time I am talking about Zero Trust here. And often it is absolutely clear to the customers that the next perimeter is the identity and not necessarily the network to the same extent anymore. Read this article: More Than 99% of Cyberattacks Need Victims’ Help – the network protection will…
This is not fundamentally new but the figure is really high…
So, why are you still using username/password?
The Microsoft Cloud in Switzerland is up and running in two regions! Just a few minutes ago, we announced the availability of our Cloud in Switzerland. To ensure quality of service and manage the load, we still manage the customers to be on-boarded. The names of the customers launching with us are a pretty impressive…
This is a well-deserved achievement, where a lot of people invested a lot of time and energy in.
I guess it might challenge all these people who still not believe in Microsoft being a serious player in the security field:
Gartner names Microsoft a Leader in 2019 Endpoint Protection Platforms Magic Quadrant
This is a questions I get fairly often. But before I try to answer, let’s take a step back: We know that attackers typically try to compromise user accounts and then move laterally until they find higher-value credentials. The holy grail in this movement is typically and administrator who uses his admin account to surf…
I guess you all know Microsoft Defender ATP as (one of the best) Endpoint Detection and Response solution. Additionally we are constantly looking for additional ways to leverage the data and the functionality to drive additional ways to get the security team more productive. One of them is the new Threat and Vulnerability Management functionality…
I guess you might have heard that we will launch the first cloud-native SIEM/SOAR solution soon. No worries about scaling etc, we will do that for you.
Sarah Young was just a guest at our Azure Friday session. This gives you a good overview over Azure Sentinel:
If you are interested in learning more about Microsoft Defender ATP and the corresponding advanced hunting capabilities, you should join one of our two webinars. You find the dates here.
This week the European Identity and Cloud Conference took place, where Joy Chik, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Identity was talking. She was actually announcing some very interesting efforts around identity and privacy, mainly the work we do around decentralized identity. If you read her blog post here, you will find a few very remarkable statement like…
An interesting article you could learn from as well. It was a long but good journey for us: How Microsoft builds empathy between its security and development teams (you have to sign up for free to read CSO Online)
I am deeply convinced that moving to the Cloud – for most companies – will increase their security dramatically – I would even go that far that a secure future without leveraging the cloud is not possible anymore. However, it does not come “just for free”, you still need to know what you need and…
Sometimes it is hard to find the right answer to your question in the vast amount of documentation on our cloud services out there. One of the questions I often get is, which keys are used where, how they are protected and why. This is documented but all over the place (and not always consistently).…
We are actively working on getting rid of passwords within Microsoft. In a first phase, we will not see and use our passwords anymore but on a more technical level they might still exist. The basis for this is the leverage of technologies like Windows Hello for Business and the Microsoft Authenticator App. All the…
Over the course of the last months we got a lot of good questions on Office telemetry and the data we collect to ensure the product runs smooth, secure and delivers on your expectations. Privacy is constantly in our focus and we are always trying to make improvements in that space to increase customer trust.…
A lot changed in the IT and regulatory world when it comes to the cloud. A few years ago, banks would nto even think about the cloud (maybe for dev and test but for sure not for production workloads. It was simply unthinkable that a bank would move their data in a hyper-scale cloud. And…
That’s not a bad start of the day, reading such a headline from a Forrester analyst. I am often asked, how far we are going to drive security within Microsoft. Well, I guess here you have an answer from an outsider: Make No Mistake — Microsoft Is A Security Company Now. Even though the author…
When you see security incidents “in the Cloud” they often link back to misconfigurations on the networking side: Public interfaces being open, public ports being misconfigured etc. Our customers often find it hard to really understand and control the Network Security Group’s settings. Therefore, we now released Adaptive Network Hardening in public preview. To quote:…
