Since the Secure Future Initiative (SFI) began, we’ve dedicated the equivalent of 34,000 full-time engineers to SFI—making it the largest cybersecurity engineering effort in history. And now, we’re sharing key updates and milestones from the first SFI Progress Report.
It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month! Celebrate security with us and prioritize it year-round. Explore how Microsoft is continuously innovating and creating the #BeCybersmart kit to help you and your organization stay safe online.
Microsoft is named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Information and Event Management and positioned based on our Ability to Execute Completeness of vision.
Today we are thrilled to announce that Microsoft has been recognized as an overall leader in the KuppingerCole Leadership Compass Identity Threat Detection and Response: IAM Meets the SOC. The report highlights strengths across key capabilities ranging from identity posture to remediation, while further highlighting Microsoft’s commitment to protecting all organizations.
Microsoft discovered a vulnerability pattern in multiple popular Android applications that could enable a malicious application to overwrite files in the vulnerable application’s internal data storage directory, which could lead to arbitrary code execution and token theft, among other impacts. We have shared our findings with Google’s Android Application Security Research team, as well as the developers of apps found vulnerable to this issue. We anticipate that the vulnerability pattern could be found in other applications. We’re sharing this research more broadly so developers and publishers can check their apps for similar issues, fix as appropriate, and prevent them from being introduced into new apps or releases.
Microsoft Security Experts are now available to strengthen your team with managed security services. Learn how to defend against threats with security experts.
We're thrilled to announce that Forrester has recognized Microsoft as a Leader in the Forrester Wave™: Workforce Identity Platforms, Q1 2024 report. We’re proud of this recognition, which we believe reflects our commitment to delivering advanced solutions that cater to the evolving needs of our customers in the workforce identity space.
Read about some of the key issues surrounding AI harms and vulnerabilities, and the steps Microsoft is taking to address the risk.
We are excited to announce the general availability of Microsoft Copilot for Security on April 1, 2024. This industry-leading product is the only generative AI solution that helps security and IT professionals amplify their skillset, collaborate more, see more, and respond faster.
March is Women’s History Month so let’s reflect on the progress made in encouraging more women to explore cybersecurity roles and consider the ways AI will support more diversity in the industry.
Microsoft Sentinel is a cloud-native SIEM solution powered by AI and automation that delivers intelligent security analytics across your entire enterprise.
The rapid adoption of Software as a Service (SaaS) has revolutionized collaboration and innovation across industries. SaaS offerings now emphasize integration and advanced collaboration, blurring the line between application and platform. Decentralized administration models and minimal security oversight pose risks, leading to complex misconfigurations. Valence and Microsoft Security address these challenges, ensuring SaaS applications adhere to security best practices and improve the security postures of identities configured in each individual SaaS application.
Microsoft, in collaboration with OpenAI, is publishing research on emerging threats in the age of AI, focusing on identified activity associated with known threat actors Forest Blizzard, Emerald Sleet, Crimson Sandstorm, and others. The observed activity includes prompt-injections, attempted misuse of large language models (LLM), and fraud.
