Microsoft 365-Modern Work & Threat Landscape
In IT Security Industry, “Kill Chain” is a term used to refer to an attack-process. In this process, an attack follows a pattern and moves from one-step to the next, to achieve a desirable outcome. These attacks can be defended against by implementing certain security measures on throttle points or ideally in every step along the chain.
Over the past several years, more businesses are benefiting from cloud computing and at the same time the threat landscape across the world has changed dramatically with hackers using more and more advanced methods to compromise users and networks. But as companies move to the cloud, they're understandably concerned how Microsoft 365 will protect their users and data from being attacked by cybercriminals.
Compared to a few years ago, companies now have the different factors to consider when dealing with following entities:
Users (Identities, must protect)
Devices (Stored Data, must protect)
Apps (Stored Data, must protect)
Data (Shared with Employees, Partners, Customers & Organisations, must protect)
Organisations need to ensure, they:
This process can be challenging to many businesses that are concerned about losing control of sensitive data.
Statistics show that most data breaches that have occurred could have been prevented by applying the appropriate internal controls.
Since hackers are becoming more advanced in their attacks, data theft continues to rise. Many businesses have stated a list of approved services and applications, but a large number of employees still use non-approved third-party applications and personal storage to store sensitive company documents.
Do companies have any control?
In an on-premises environment, you have a bit of control by implementing firewalls, email gateways, and proxies that can perform content inspection. That security boundary has now expanded to include mobile devices, tablets, and cloud resources. Often the devices that have access to a company’s data are either softly managed or not managed at all. Some companies may use Mobile Device Management (MDM) solutions to help impose some level of security, such as encrypting the device or configuring it for remote wipe in the event the device gets stolen.
However, they still don’t have any control when data on those devices moves outside their protected environment.
In modern cloud-centric world:
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The question businesses now ask is how do they operate in this world but still adhere to security and business requirements to protect information, particularly when they’re dealing with not only their own intellectual property but also personal identifiable information such as personal identification and financial details?
How does your business protect that information?
Microsoft Technologies are helping organizations be more secure by helping them to protect against different threat vectors by applying:
Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administration offer the following elements to achieve above:
365 Security Management
365 Compliance Management
365 Device Management
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