Microsoft on Thursday announced a Secure Future Initiative (SFI) approach to dealing with cybersecurity threats.
Microsoft could further give users a piece of mind by adding a security focused Role Based Access Control to its productivity suite.
In a gathering of 48 countries for the third annual International Counter Ransomware Initiative summit, the U.S. and allies are pledging to not pay ransomware attacks leveraged against their individual countries.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission announced a lawsuit on Monday against SolarWinds Corp. for alleged "fraud and internal control failures" regarding its software security practices, which misled investors.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency this week introduced Logging Made Easy version 1.0.
Microsoft suggested this week that organizations with Entra ID-joined Windows 11 devices can now switch them over to passwordless authentications using a new policy option.
Microsoft offered a few more details about its plans to expand audit logging and data retention periods for Microsoft Purview Audit Standard users.
Microsoft has updated its Windows Local Administrator Password solution by adding support for Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Intune.
Microsoft Intune with a coming Microsoft Security Copilot artificial intelligence integration will help organizations better track security issues at the device and user level, according to a Thursday Microsoft announcement.
The coming Security Copilot artificial intelligence implementation in Microsoft 365 Defender will ease routine tasks for Security Operations Center personnel, Microsoft suggested, in a Thursday announcement.
Microsoft this week indicated that it plans to eliminate the need to use the New Technology LAN Manager protocol in Windows 11, with Kerberos taking its place.
This month's security update addresses the widespread HTTP/2 issue and two other zero-day vulnerabilities.
Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 are no longer supported products as of Oct. 10, 2023, meaning no more patches will be arriving.
Microsoft's partners are now selling Extended Security Updates for SQL Server 2014 as of this month, per this announcement.
Microsoft on Monday announced that it will turn off Remote PowerShell Protocol for Exchange Online, starting as early as Oct. 3, 2023 for its worldwide service customers.
Microsoft has improved the remediation process when users authenticating via on-premises methods are deemed to be at risk by the Microsoft Entra ID Protection service, per a Thursday announcement.
Microsoft on Wednesday gave notice that its Exchange Online e-mail tamper protections are planned for completion in 2024, which may entail some backend changes by IT departments.
Cisco is acquiring security and IT solutions provider Splunk for about "$28 billion in equity value," per a Thursday announcement.
Microsoft this week announced that Extended Security Updates for Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2, as managed using Azure Arc, reached the "general availability" commercial-release stage.
Microsoft indicated on Monday that it had revoked an overly permissioned Shared Access Signature (SAS) token, said to have exposed "38TB" of internal Microsoft data.