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- Planning your move to Microsoft Defender portal for all Microsoft Sentinel customers by Tomer Brand on 1 July 2025 at 5:00 pm
Microsoft is transitioning Microsoft Sentinel into the Microsoft Defender portal to create a unified security operations experience. The post Planning your move to Microsoft Defender portal for all Microsoft Sentinel customers appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
- Jasper Sleet: North Korean remote IT workers’ evolving tactics to infiltrate organizationsby Microsoft Threat Intelligence on 30 June 2025 at 7:17 pm
Since 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed remote IT workers deployed by North Korea leveraging AI to improve the scale and sophistication of their operations, steal data, and generate revenue for the North Korean government. The post Jasper Sleet: North Korean remote IT workers’ evolving tactics to infiltrate organizations appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
- Unveiling RIFT: Enhancing Rust malware analysis through pattern matchingby Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) on 27 June 2025 at 6:30 pm
As threat actors are adopting Rust for malware development, RIFT, an open-source tool, helps reverse engineers analyze Rust malware, solving challenges in the security industry. The post Unveiling RIFT: Enhancing Rust malware analysis through pattern matching appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
- Building security that lasts: Microsoft’s journey towards durability at scale by Mark Russinovich on 26 June 2025 at 4:00 pm
In late 2023, Microsoft launched its most ambitious security transformation to date, the Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI). An initiative with the equivalent of 34,000 engineers working across 14 product divisions, supporting more than 20,000 cloud services on 1.2 million Azure subscriptions, the scope is massive. These services operate on 21 million compute nodes, protected by 46.7 million certificates, and developed across 134,000 code repositories. The post Building security that lasts: Microsoft’s journey towards durability at scale appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.
- Microsoft Named a Leader in the 2025 IDC CNAPP MarketScape: Key Takeaways for Security Buyers by Mona Thaker on 25 June 2025 at 5:00 pm
The cloud-native application protection platform (CNAPP) market continues to evolve rapidly as organizations look to secure increasingly complex cloud environments. In the recently published 2025 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide CNAPP, Microsoft has been recognized as a Leader, reaffirming its commitment to delivering comprehensive, AI-powered, and integrated security solutions for multicloud environments. A diagram of a The post Microsoft Named a Leader in the 2025 IDC CNAPP MarketScape: Key Takeaways for Security Buyers appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.