Security

August 13, 2014

While Microsoft continues to further strengthen encryption to protect customer data, design and maintain services that meet government and industry compliance standards and increase protection from government snooping, customers say they’d like more information about how Microsoft protects data, and how security is addressed in the cloud. To answer those questions, Microsoft has put together four Cloud Trust Centers that include FAQs, whitepapers and technical resources.

July 31, 2014

“[Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit] is a free tool, designed to help customers with their defense in depth strategies against cyberattacks, by helping block and terminate the most common techniques adversaries might use in comprising systems,” Chris Betz writes in a blog post. EMET 5.0 “further helps to protect with two new mitigations, and with new capabilities giving customers additional flexibility on their deployments.”

June 23, 2014

Interflow uses industry specifications to create an automated, machine-readable feed of threat and security information that can be shared across industries and groups in near real-time. The platform will also help reduce cost of defense by automating processes that are currently performed manually.

June 13, 2014

Public Key Infrastructure is used as a building block to provide key security controls, such as data protection and authentication for organizations. Many organizations operate their own PKI to support things like remote access, network authentication and securing communications.

June 2, 2014

Following Monday’s multi-national action against the GameOver Zeus botnet, Microsoft is working closely with the FBI and industry partners to remove malware, so that infected computers can no longer be used for harm.