Are students prepared for real-world cyber curveballs?

Credit to Author: Todd VanderArk| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:00:55 +0000

Are today’s students getting the preparation they need to do the cybersecurity work of tomorrow? Read the findings from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) CyberForce Competition.™

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Partnering with the industry to minimize false positives

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 17:00:27 +0000

Every day, antivirus capabilities in Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (Windows Defender ATP) protect millions of customers from threats. To effectively scale protection, Windows Defender ATP uses intelligent systems that combine multiple layers of machine learning models, behavior-based detection algorithms, generics, and heuristics that make a verdict on suspicious files, most of the time in

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Use Windows Information Protection (WIP) to help make accidental data leakage a thing of the past

Credit to Author: Microsoft Secure Blog Staff| Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 16:00:24 +0000

Have you always wished you could have mobile application management (MAM) on Windows? Now you can! Windows Information Protection (WIP) is an out-of-the box data leakage prevention feature for Windows 10 that can automatically apply protection for work files and data to prevent accidental data leakage. With 600 million active Windows 10 devices, corporate customers

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Building a world without passwords

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Tue, 01 May 2018 17:00:03 +0000

Nobody likes passwords. They are inconvenient, insecure, and expensive. In fact, we dislike them so much that weve been busy at work trying to create a world without them a world without passwords. In this blog, we will provide a brief insight into how we at Microsoft have been thinking about solving this problem

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Teaming up in the war on tech support scams

Credit to Author: Windows Defender ATP| Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:00:23 +0000

Beyond customer education, the scale and complexity of tech support scams require cooperation and broad partnerships across the industry. Given the scale and complexity of tech support scams, how can the security industry at large work together to deal a major blow to this enduring threat?

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