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Apple joins industry effort to eliminate passwords

Credit to Author: Lucas Mearian| Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 03:00:00 -0800

In a somewhat unusual move for Apple, the company has joined the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance, an authentication standards group dedicated to replacing passwords with another, faster and more secure method for logging into online services and apps.

Apple is among the last tech bigwigs to join FIDO, whose members now include Amazon, Facebook, Google, Intel, Microsoft, RSA, Samsung, Qualcomm and VMware. The group also boasts more than a dozen financial service firms such as American Express, ING, Mastercard, PayPal, Visa and Wells Fargo.

“Apple is not usually up front in joining new organizations and often waits to see if they gain enough traction before joining in. This is fairly atypical for them,” said Jack Gold, president and principal analyst at J. Gold Associates. “Apple is often trying to present [its] own proposed industry standards for wide adoption, but is generally not an early adopter of true multi-vendor industry standards.

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Microsoft Insider Risk Management and Communication Compliance in Microsoft 365 now generally available

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:05:57 +0000

Microsoft Insider Risk Management and Communication Compliance in Microsoft 365 help organizations address internal risks—such as IP theft or code of conduct policy violations.

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Free import of AWS CloudTrail logs through June 2020 and other exciting Azure Sentinel updates

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:00:44 +0000

Learn how Azure Sentinel helps SecOps to improve security across hybrid environments with free import of AWS CloudTrail logs through June 2020 and other product updates.

The post Free import of AWS CloudTrail logs through June 2020 and other exciting Azure Sentinel updates appeared first on Microsoft Security.

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Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built-in intelligence and automation

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 14:00:09 +0000

Threat protection that changes our approach to attacks requires built-in intelligence that can understand how an attack got in, prevent its spread across domains, and automatically heal compromised assets.

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Threat spotlight: RobbinHood ransomware takes the driver’s seat

Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2020 18:09:03 +0000

RobbinHood a is a ransomware family that specifically targets organizations using a vulnerable kernel driver to prepare systems for encryption. Learn how to protect against it.

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