A Tech Blog by David Kandie

Monday, February 14, 2022

El Rio Health serves clients more securely with Microsoft's cloud-based tools

Too many organizations are familiar with layering multiple individual solutions, one by one and over a span of time. This creates a maze of security tools and platforms that lends to navigation challenges for IT staff. Arizona-based El Rio Health found itself in this exact situation. It needed one integrated platform to handle all its security needs, and Microsoft 365 with E5 security bundle was the best fit.

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Monday, February 7, 2022

Strengthen your nonprofit's digital security

As a busy nonprofit, your focus is your mission. Whether you're supporting humanitarian efforts, promoting animal welfare, fighting climate change, or working to improve health equity, you are focused squarely on providing critical services and support to your community. Your organization is deeply engaged in delivering programs, coordinating, managing volunteers, processing donations, supporting fundraising efforts, and myriad other activities. With all these priorities on your plate, security might seem like something that can wait. Unfortunately, it can't. Security is more critical than ever for nonprofits. In our e-book, Strengthen your nonprofit's digital security: Protect your data and build trust, we introduce five key steps you can take to improve security at your nonprofit: Gain buy-in from leadership and your board Build security awareness and skills throughout your team Create and document security policies Choose and use technology designed for the way people work Collaborate with experienced experts

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Microsoft Security & Compliance Adoption Guide

With remote work as the new normal, organizations must rely on employees and volunteers who are working outside traditional business borders. This guide will help you implement the Security and Compliance capabilities of Microsoft 365 for your organization that can help you identify and manage potential risks while keeping staff connected and productive.

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Tuesday, February 1, 2022

Securing the hybrid cloud with Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel

Infrastructure security  is top-of-mind for organizations managing workloads  on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid.  Azure Security Center  provides unified security management by identifying and fixing misconfigurations and providing visibility  into  threats to quickly remediate them. Azure Sentinel  collects data from  Azure  Security Center.  Learn more about this integrated and efficient solution  in this blog.

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Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel  is intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise.  Collect data, detect threats, investigate incidents, and rapidly respond with  Sentinel.

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Monday, January 31, 2022

Cloud-Native SIEM: Quick Start Guide to Azure Sentinel

Digital and cloud transformation continue to reshape IT. Information security leaders face growing complexity, diverse attack surfaces, alerts growing by orders of magnitude, as well as increasingly sophisticated and difficult-to-detect cyber assaults, including insider threats—all in the context of exponential growth in data volume. At the same time, they need to find ways to make systems and processes more efficient, control costs, and manage resources. Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions built for yesterday's environments struggle to keep pace with today's challenges—let alone tomorrow's unimagined risks. That's why Microsoft developed Azure Sentinel, a fully cloud-native SIEM designed to serve all four aspects of security operations: Collect data at cloud scale—across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds. Detect previously uncovered threats and minimize false positives using analytics and unparalleled threat intelligence from Microsoft. Investigate threats with AI and proactively hunt suspicious activities at scale, tapping into decades of cybersecurity work at Microsoft. Respond to incidents rapidly with built-in orchestration and automation of common tasks. Get our quick start guide and learn how you can use smarter, faster threat detection and response that connects data from all your sources with the cloud and Azure Sentinel.

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RapidDeploy helps first responders defend public safety with Azure Sentinel

RapidDeploy  creates its  Cloud Aided Dispatch  systems to help first responders act quickly to protect the public. There's a lot at stake, and the company's cloud-native platform must be secure against an array of serious cybersecurity threats. So, when RapidDeploy  implemented a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system, it chose  Microsoft  Azure Sentinel, one of the world's first  cloud-native  SIEMs. Learn about the whole story in the video below.

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