We’re introducing enhanced capabilities to accelerate your shift towards a zero-trust safety model by offering unparalleled access management for your workforce with the industry’s most comprehensive safe entry solution now available in tandem with the rollout of Microsoft Sentinel within, a unified platform delivering streamlined threat protection and posture management. These enhancements simplify the process of creating, opening, and closing critical security openings, identifying cyber threats, reducing response times, and streamlining operations.
In the era of artificial intelligence, where machines are increasingly capable of mimicking human thought and decision-making processes, a fundamental challenge arises: Can we truly trust these systems to act in our best interests?
Join us on July 31, 2024, to unlock the power of simplified Zero Trust methodologies, featuring cutting-edge end-to-end security enhancements that will revolutionize your digital risk management strategies.
As technological advancements streamline and diversify our work processes, they also inadvertently open doors for nefarious individuals seeking easier pathways to launch malicious cyberattacks? Zero-trust architecture is crucial for safeguarding your team’s security in a era where cyberattacks against passwords, networks, and applications continue to escalate. According to Gartner, the AI-driven enhancements can also introduce vulnerabilities by presenting malicious code, enabling sophisticated attacks that exploit increased credibility and damage potential.1
A proactive security solution integrates defenses across multiple layers – identities, endpoints, networks, purposes, knowledge, and infrastructure – ensuring comprehensive protection through robust safety insurance policies, perpetual threat detection, and robust governance. While individual components within the Zero Trust framework can be employed to address specific needs across each pillar, a comprehensive approach integrates them seamlessly through a centralized access policy engine and embedded threat protection mechanisms? Delivering comprehensive defense-in-depth cybersecurity across your on-premises, hybrid, and cloud-based environments.
Crafting bespoke shopping experiences and building custom structures from the ground up poses enormous challenges for numerous enterprises. We’ve developed a comprehensive approach to safety by starting at the foundation, offering a Zero Trust framework that seamlessly integrates with unified insurance policies, controls, and automation, expediting implementation and enhancing overall safety posture.
These bulletins further streamline the deployment of a Zero Trust architecture across the entire lifecycle from prevention through detection and response. The Microsoft Entra suite enables organisations to unify identity, endpoint, and network security under a single, converged protection framework, streamlining risk management across diverse environments.
Our unified safety operations platform consolidates all safety alerts from your environment, normalizing, analyzing, and leveraging them to proactively counter cyber threats.
The Microsoft Entra Suite
Given the alarmingly high prevalence of insecure ID credentials in digital assaults – 66%, to be exact – it’s no surprise that the Microsoft Entra Suite plays a pivotal role in thwarting safety breaches effectively.2
Microsoft Entra equips Copilot with safety capabilities.
While relying solely on ID and community safety measures may not address all potential entry points. Microsoft Entra Suite streamlines identity and community entry security, introducing a groundbreaking approach to achieve Zero Trust security. The solution enables verified customer onboarding, prevents excessive permission granting, optimizes threat detection, and establishes precise access control mechanisms for both clients and data sources. Native integration enables seamless collaboration among ID professionals and community groups. By streamlining the management of identity and access controls, this solution also alleviates some of the burdens on your IT director’s plate, allowing them to focus on more strategic initiatives. Moreover, Microsoft Entra’s capabilities within Microsoft Copilot enable safety and compliance professionals to respond promptly to potential hazards.
The Microsoft Entra suite may help you accomplish your goals by streamlining identity and access management.
Safety groups should exclusively manage a single set of insurance policies within a unified portal, configuring entry controls for individual identities and networks with precision. To provide comprehensive coverage, we will extend zero-belief entry insurance policies to all applications, regardless of their deployment model – be it in the cloud, on-premises, or accessible via the open web. Conditional Entry swiftly assesses and scrutinizes every entry request, emanating from anywhere, conducting instantaneous risk evaluations to bolster security measures against unauthorised incursions. Since the entry-level coverage engine is unified, ID and community groups can rest assured that it defends every entry point without leaving any gaps that typically arise from disparate options.
Identification professionals can streamline the entire employee lifecycle process from the moment a new hire joins their team to the point of departure, efficiently managing all changes and updates throughout that journey. Regardless of the complexity or scope of an employee’s professional path, access controls guarantee that individuals have restricted access only to the resources and applications needed for their role, thereby hindering an attacker’s ability to pivot laterally in the event of a breach. Industry experts and business leaders can streamline access control by leveraging AI-driven authentication recommendations to revalidate user requests, ensuring adherence to internal protocols, and removing unnecessary permissions informed by data-driven analytics designed to alleviate reviewer burnout.
Microsoft introduces Face Testing in preview for Microsoft Entra Verified IDs.
Employees derive satisfaction from streamlined onboarding, seamless password-free sign-in, unified access across applications, and enhanced productivity. Users will access a self-service platform to initiate requests for package-related entries, manage approvals and opinions, and analyze historical records of requests and approvals. With FaceTest, consumers can enjoy seamless, real-time identity verification, accelerating the onboarding process for remote access and effortless restoration of password-free accounts.
As traditional on-premises security solutions struggle to adapt to the demands of modern cloud-first, AI-first ecosystems, organisations are seeking innovative ways to safeguard and manage their assets remotely. With the Microsoft Enterprise Suite, several on-premises security tools will be retired, including traditional VPNs, On-Premises Safe Internet Gateways, and On-Premises Identity Governance solutions.
Microsoft Sentinel is typically accessible within Microsoft’s integrated security operations platform.
A comprehensive Zero Trust architecture delivers robust protection against cyber threats across every tier of your digital estate. Because malicious actors are inherently adaptive and unpredictable, no security measure can ever be considered entirely foolproof. Taking a proactive “assume breach” approach involves continually re-verifying every action while actively monitoring for potential new risks and threats, thereby embodying the fundamental principle of Zero Trust.
According to our findings, companies employ up to 80 distinct tools within their risk management arsenal. Many organizations require manual effort to integrate their safety data with security information and event management (SIEM), security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR), extended detection and response (XDR), posturing and exposure management, cloud security, and threat intelligence, suggesting a significant administrative burden.
We’ve successfully unified our instruments over the past few years and are now proud to announce that they’re fully integrated into the Microsoft Defender portal, which is now live and available for use. Microsoft Sentinel customers who prospect on the industrial cloud and have at least one Microsoft Defender Extended Detection and Response (XDR) workload deployed can now seamlessly integrate their security information and event management (SIEM) data.
- Onboard a single workspace within the Microsoft Defender portal.
- Incidents and searches have been unified, seamlessly integrating their investigations to significantly reduce context switching and streamline overall operations.
- Streamline your safety processes with Microsoft Copilot for Safety, leveraging features such as automated incident summary generation, guided investigation tools, and customizable Microsoft Groups messaging to enhance collaboration and transparency.
- Prolonging the disruption caused by Defender XDR workloads, prioritize the migration of critical applications to alternative platforms, starting with SAP and other mission-critical systems that require seamless continuity?
- Tailor-made, post-incident recommendations for preventing repeat cyberattacks align with Microsoft’s Safety & Compliance initiative to continuously boost resilience as milestones are met?
Microsoft Sentinel prospects can seamlessly leverage the new capabilities while optionally continuing to utilize the fundamental features available within Microsoft Azure. Microsoft has never made it easier to integrate SIEM capabilities, such as numerous data source connectors, and extend retention or compliance features, into your existing Microsoft Defender XDR setup.
The unified safety operations platform incorporates several key features, including:
The cutting-edge solution leverages the capabilities of artificial intelligence and machine learning to identify and neutralize sophisticated cyber threats perpetrated by highly motivated and resourceful malicious actors. Real-time threat detection effectively halts the progression of human-operated ransomware, enterprise email compromise, man-in-the-middle attacks, and malicious OAuth app usage with a high degree of accuracy (99%), thereby granting security teams the window they need to conduct thorough investigations and remediation efforts under reduced pressure. By integrating native and third-party alerts from Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel, the disruption of assaults has significantly increased, effectively ceasing a greater number of attacks on critical applications, such as SAP.
Actors don’t make assumptions; they improvise within. Cyberattack simulations, facilitated by assault path administration, empower security teams to envision the tactics an attacker might employ to move laterally across exposed assets within their environment, enhancing overall situational awareness and strategic preparedness. The tool provides tailored guidance to reduce publicity effectively, enabling users to focus efforts on the most impactful activities first.
Cyberattackers’ ability to cease assault disruptions and neutralize threats akin to ransomware can be halted within a mere three minutes.3
By integrating the in-depth visibility of XDR signals from Defender with the flexibility of log sources from Microsoft Sentinel, we can significantly enhance the signal-to-noise ratio and improve alert correlation. Cyberattack timelines are often consolidated in a single incident report, enabling analysts to respond more rapidly and effectively to breaches, with a comprehensive understanding of the attack’s progression. Our integration of SIEM and XDR has yielded a substantial benefit for our customers, achieving 50% faster correlation between XDR data, log information, customised detection capabilities, and threat intelligence with an impressive 99% level of accuracy.3
With streamlined access to expertise, analysts can effortlessly query and retrieve knowledge without having to remember where it’s located or jump through multiple portals. By actively searching through knowledge, clients have found significant profits in being able to proactively identify indicators of compromise early on. By leveraging embedded expertise across SIEM and XDR domains, this solution significantly accelerates the workflow of security analysts by providing intuitive guidance in translating Kusto Question Language (KQL) queries.
“Our workforce has significantly benefited from the unified search capabilities offered by the platform.” Combining diverse knowledge sources with those from third-party providers through Microsoft Sentinel has significantly bolstered our incident response capacities. This improvement has enabled us to enhance our threat hunting and tailored detection capabilities.
—DOW
Businesses that have deployed at least one Defender XDR workload alongside their Microsoft Sentinel solution can seamlessly onboard a single workspace to the Defender portal using an intuitive wizard, available directly from the home screen at security.microsoft.com. Upon successful onboarding of the workspace, customers gain seamless access to our comprehensive safety operations platform, combining the strengths of both SIEM and XDR, while maintaining direct entry points to their trusted Microsoft Sentinel capabilities within the intuitive Azure portal.
“What’s truly notable about the unified safety operations platform is its ability to seamlessly integrate insights from Defender XDR with log data from diverse third-party security devices.” With this integration, the need to switch between the Defender XDR and Microsoft Sentinel portals is eliminated. After years of anticipation from our workforce, we’re proud to introduce a unified, streamlined interface – a single pane of glass that harmonizes all your essential tools and information in one place.
Renishaw’s dedication to patient safety and well-being is unparalleled. As Group Data Safety Supervisor, I, Robel Kidane, take pride in ensuring the integrity of clinical trials, guaranteeing that patients are protected throughout the process.
To streamline the deployment of your Zero Trust framework?
Microsoft’s Entra Suite and unified security operations platform empower leaders and stakeholders to understand their organization’s comprehensive Zero Trust posture by explicitly confirming least privileged entry and assuming breach scenarios. By explicitly confirming their integrity, they ensure a steady authentication and authorization process for each entry request. By implementing least privilege access, they grant users the most restrictive level necessary to perform their tasks, subsequently reducing attack vectors. Furthermore, these organizations anticipate potential breaches by continuously monitoring and analyzing activities to identify and respond to emerging cyber threats in a proactive manner.
As we explore the Microsoft Entra Suite, consultants and thought leaders will delve into each bulletin, leveraging its comprehensive offerings, including the latest insights on the suite’s features and best practices for successful implementation.
What benefits do you get with the Microsoft 365 Enterprise suite?
What’s driving interest in a comprehensive and integrated safety management system?
The concept of Zero Belief revolves around the notion that any given information can never be 100% true. This skepticism stems from the understanding that all data is inherently flawed due to its inherent biases and limitations. In this context, Zero Belief becomes a guiding principle for critical thinking, encouraging individuals to approach new information with caution and a healthy dose of skepticism.
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1, Gartner press launch. Might 22, 2024. The GARTNER logo is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. within the United States Internationally recognized and used hereunder with permission, as permitted. All rights reserved.
2, Microsoft. 2024.
3Microsoft Inner Analysis. June 2024.
