As cyber-attacks ramp up amid the coronavirus crisis, Microsoft has made a major security move that will impact everyone.
are already protected against these threats with Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection and email with Office 365 ATP.Among the threats to businesses and employees, the COVID-19 crisis has seen a surge in The new move by Microsoft will help organizations better defend against threats such as these. Microsoft “certainly deserves credit for this,” says security researcher Sean Wright.
In addition, he points out: “This information is going to be very useful to enable many volunteers in the community to help organizations and others. It is the correlation of data —especially threat intelligence—that will go a long way to help stop the threat actors out there who are actively targeting organizations and individuals.”
Ian Thornton-Trump, CISO at Cyjax, is more cynical about Microsoft’s decision. “It’s clever marketing and has some value—although most, if not all, those indicators of compromise will be available from a multitude of cyber threat intelligence sources, feeds and vendors already.”At the same time, Microsoft’s new move may have come a little late in the pandemic. “I’m not saying it’s not welcome but where was this support nine weeks ago?” Thornton-Trump asks.
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