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Six tips for security teams to protect organizational data

Here are six quick tips from Microsoft Security on how security teams can protect their organizations from cyber-attacks

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The unprecedented rise of digital platforms and increased dependence on shared technology have increased our exposure to cyber-attacks. According to Cyber Signals, a Microsoft Threat Intelligence Report, basic cybersecurity hygiene can go as far as protecting against 98% of attacks. 

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Here are six quick tips from Microsoft Security on how security teams can protect their organizations from cyber-attacks:

  1. Accelerate safeguards through zero-trust practices: As ransomware thrives on default or compromised credentials, reduce risk by implementing zero-trust practices like multi-factor authentication (MFA) and passwordless upgrades on all user accounts and prioritizing configurations and other privileged roles.
  1. Monitor and act on anomalies: Though early logins, file movement, and other behaviors that introduce ransomware can seem nondescript, teams need to identify how to spot telltale anomalies in time to act on them swiftly.
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  1. Manage alerts and move fast on mitigation: Strengthen weak security configurations that allow the ransomware attack to succeed and manage security configurations so alerts and detections are being responded to properly. 
  1. Visualize and practice full restorations:  Have a ransomware response plan and conduct recovery exercises to understand how full restorations will look. 
  1. Audit access privileges: Practice frequent audits of access privileges, using the principle of least-privilege granted to enable employees to get jobs done. 
  1. Verify the authenticity of users and activities: Thoroughly review all tenant administrator users or accounts tied to delegated administrative privileges to verify their authenticity and disable or remove any unused delegated administrative privileges. 
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