Microsoft’s DART team has outlined five basic steps for Office 365 users to minimize their exposure to APT attackers
As more companies across the world are adopting Office 365 for team productivity, there is a greater risk of data leakage, compromised credentials, compliance exposure and other security threats. Until recently, most IT and security leaders complained that the typical Office 365 security settings had been very low, despite its commercial monthly active users being pegged at 200 million. Also Microsoft’s name wouldn’t probably come to the top of the mind when one thinks of cybersecurity. But now, Microsoft’s Detection and Response Team (DART) team is helping CIO/CISOs solve some of their most complex cyber troubles.
The company launched DART in March 2019 as part of CEO Satya Nadella’s $1bn-a-year push into enterprise cybersecurity as announced by in 2017. Since then, the vendor has been solving CISOs’ mitigate both internal and external threats pertaining to Office 365 and other productivity tools, as it claimed in its blog detailing regular updates on DART’s activities.
Minimizing exposure to APT attackers
Very recently, the team detailed the…
