Break Free from Your Password

Life’s complicated enough without needing to remember a multitude of passwords. Watch the video as Microsoft takes a tongue-in-cheek approach to highlight the need to “Break free from your password.”

Azure Defender for IoT helps Global Geological Materials Company Secure Production and Bridge the IT/OT Gap

Keeping pace with digital transformation isn’t easy, particularly when your company is mainly focused on pulling rocks from the ground. This customer success story highlights how an IoT security solution became a top priority for global lime and minerals producer Lhoist to keep digital transformation from stalling. Microsoft Azure Defender for IoT has enabled Lhoist’s critical OT equipment to be more connected to the plant’s IT network, which is in turn connected to the larger organization’s corporate IT network. With 80 plants in more than 25 countries, this unifying of IT security with industrial automation was a critical factor in the company’s continued digital transformation evolution. Read the story to learn from Lhoist’s experience.

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Microsoft 365 Defender and Azure Sentinel Integration

Azure Sentinel is Microsoft’s cloud-native SIEM for modern SecOps. Requiring no infrastructure, it eliminates worries about scaling up and takes just minutes to set up. Watch this demo video to see how Azure Sentinel enables you to stream all Microsoft 365 Defender incidents into the SIEM and keep them synchronized. Get in touch to discuss how the team at A Systems Integrator can help you make the most of your incident data to rapidly and effectively triage and investigate in Sentinel.

New Research Shows IoT and OT Innovation is Critical to Business but Comes with Significant Risk

This blog explores the security risks inherent with IoT/OT and concludes adoption is critical even with the security challenges. In addition, it provides a link to a collaborative report from Microsoft and the Ponemon Institute highligting data on the state of IoT and OT security from a customer’s perspective. Read the blog for a review of the research and quantified findings.

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Best Practices for AI Security Risk Management

This blog examines Microsoft’s latest efforts to tackle what it sees as a growing gap between the security and popularity of AI systems. Microsoft’s ML team recently published a framework that explains how organizations can gather information on their use of AI, analyze the current state of their security, and create ways of tracking progress. The blog also provides a link to that report.

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