Microsoft best practices for securing your remote workforce

Enabling your team to work remotely is an ongoing challenge that looks different for every organization, depending on your size, industry, and stage of digital transformation. We understand that every IT leader needs to define their own priorities to enable remote productivity across their organization’s workforce. While one business’s remote work journey may look different than another’s, some constants remain. We want to help by sharing some best practices and learnings. Click here to learn more.

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Emirates Group creates digital, accessible workplace for employees

For Emirates Group, creating a Digital Workplace to allow their employees to work remotely – without compromising on security and employee experience – is a top priority. They rely on the Microsoft Cloud—Microsoft 365, Azure and Power Platform—as the foundation for their digital working environment. The Emirates Group Digital Workplace is not a solution that is deployed and revisited intermittently. It’s a continuously evolving concept with solutions, processes, adoption programs, and specifically trained employees across different locations and business units, acting as champions. Learn how Emirates Group makes their employee experience a top priority, keeping security at the forefront.

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Microsoft Azure for Retail industry

Retailers are using Microsoft Azure to personalize customer experiences across all channels, empower employees, and keep supply chains more agile than ever. Companies are discovering new ways to use data to make better decisions and accelerate innovation thanks to Azure's predictive AI, machine learning, and analytics. In a business world that demands flexibility and innovation, Microsoft Azure helps companies modernize digital processes and increase productivity. This video provides an overview of the value of Microsoft Azure's portfolio of services for the retail industry.

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Protect your organization from Ransomware

Understanding ransomware – its evolution, its phases, and the economic engine behind it – and then learning how to stop it are crucial to keeping your business safe from bad actors. With this infographic, you’ll get a glimpse of the criminal players who operate within the underground ransomware economy. We’ll help you understand the motivations and mechanics of ransomware attacks and provide you with best practices for protection as well as backup and recovery.  Click here to learn more.

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Secure now; upgrade and transform when ready

It's time to secure and update your systems. The Windows Server 2012, R2, and SQL Server 2012 support lifecycles are coming to an end. Plan now and stay up to date with the latest versions. Don’t worry—all your applications and data will be completely safe during the process. Check out the infographic illustrating the dates and project flow. For customers that can’t get it all upgraded by the deadline, there are options to help protect applications and data during the upgrade transition. Sign up to stay connected. We'll help you with your migration journey.

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Cyber Resilience

With the adoption of hybrid work, corporate networks are becoming more dispersed, complicated, and ambiguous. To manage risk in this hyper-connected virtual space, cybersecurity strategy must evolve. Microsoft Security conducted a survey of more than 500 security professionals, showing that a fundamental shift is underway, as leaders now focus on preparing for threats and attacks rather than reacting to them. The emerging approach elevates security into a strategic business function that enables the way we work today while mitigating the risk and minimizing the impact of attack. Click here to learn how you can minimize your business’s risk.

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Ransomware-as-a-service: The new face of industrialized cybercrime

Ransomware, one of the most persistent and pervasive cyber threats, continues to evolve, and its latest form presents a new menace to organizations worldwide. Ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) is an arrangement between an operator, who develops and maintains the tools to power extortion operations, and an affiliate, who deploys the ransomware payload. When the affiliate conducts a successful ransomware and extortion attack, both parties profit. Ransomware attackers are motivated by easy profits, so adding to their cost via security hardening is key in disrupting the cybercrime economy. Click here to read our latest Security Insider blog and learn that steps to protect your business.

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How to replace an on-premises file server with Azure file shares

This video covers an end-to-end demo and description of the various Azure file share features that enable an IT admin to understand and configure identity-based authentication "AD authentication", networking, private endpoint, and other features of an Azure file share.

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Let’s stay connected!

Staying up to speed with the changing security landscape is challenging, and many businesses have large gaps in coverage. Now is the time to find integrated business security solutions built to work across platforms and cloud environments. We can help safeguard your people, data, and infrastructure. Sign up for our mailing list to explore how the world’s most comprehensive approach to security can help your business. Let’s stay connected!

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Modernize your workloads with new and improved features on Azure

Windows Server on Azure is resilient, efficient, and scalable—not to mention cost effective. The newest features on Azure include Azure Automanage, which helps simplify IT management with optimized, automated operations, as well as the ability to manage Windows Servers with Windows Admin Center straight from the Azure Portal. Get the Windows Server Migration Guide and the Ultimate Guide to Windows Server on Azure when you download this infographic.

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10 Practical Tips for Keeping your Business’ Data Secure

Whether your business is a large enterprise or a local retailer, data theft can cause massive disruptions to your day-to-day operations. Without the proper security and procedures in place, businesses leave themselves open to the consequences of cyberattacks, which are at best frustrating and at worst irreparable. As damaging as threats to a business’s data security can be, they’re also easily avoidable when you have the appropriate safeguards in place. Here are 10 tips to keep your data safe.

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Five Ways To Reduce Your Cloud Security Blast Radius

Pearson VUE, a global exam provider, needed to keep exam content completely confidential to maintain trust with customers and protect test-takers whose careers depend on the results. Their high data volumes demanded cost-effective data storage solutions, as well as solutions to stay ahead of the ever-evolving world of cybersecurity. So the company implemented a host of Microsoft Security solutions. Now, they enter an era of seamlessly and safely delivered professional certifications. Click here to read more.

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What CEOs need to know about the cloud in 2021

While companies’ shift to the cloud has been gradual over the last decade, research shows that the pandemic has accelerated that move. Companies across all industries quickly learned they had to depend on cloud technologies to enable entire staffs to work from home, to ramp up digital commerce, and to provide telehealth, entertainment streaming, and more. Despite the enthusiasm for what cloud can do, executives across the C-suite have concerns. CEOs must now evaluate a changing business for the longer term and tackle tough questions.

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Minutes Matter

Every minute counts when it comes to rapidly detecting cyberattacks, and the time of experts is every business’s scarcest resource. Microsoft’s approach combines human expertise, extensive telemetry, and advanced analytics. Understanding how to use time to your advantage is key to combating threats. Click here to see how every minute matters.

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Five Best Practices for Cloud Security

Cloud security is a fundamentally new landscape for many businesses. And while many of the security principles remain the same as on-premises, the implementation is often quite different for the cloud. This infographic gives you a snapshot of five best practices for cloud security. Let’s stay connected. Sign up for our mailing list, and we’ll help you navigate the modern world of cloud security.

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Gartner Highlights Three Ways Security Leaders Can Prepare for the Evolution of Cybersecurity Strate

Businesses today are inundated with automated cyberattacks, which are exponentially growing in velocity, variety, and complexity. But, according to Gartner, AI is simultaneously supporting security teams in detecting and responding to threats, fundamentally changing organizations’ defense paradigms. Here, Gartner outlines three strategies that security leaders can take to prepare for the emerging threats and set their teams up with the best defense for the future. Click here to read more.

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Get industry-leading performance with SQL on Windows Server on Azure

Protect your apps, data, and IT workloads in Azure and get the benefit of the $1 billion investment in security Microsoft makes per year, resulting in faster performance and overall cost savings for SQL on Windows Server on Azure. You can easily migrate to Azure VMs and modernize with Azure Services such as Azure Arc, Windows Server on-premises, and Windows Admin Center. Take advantage of cloud innovations for on-premises workloads and the end-to-end hybrid infrastructure available that will help you take your organization to the next level.

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How to organize your security team

With billions of people working remotely, the daily practice of cybersecurity has changed dramatically. Organizations are shifting from defending a traditional network perimeter to more effective zero trust strategies. This transformation brings technology changes and raises questions about your team's roles and responsibilities. In this new world, traditional job descriptions and security tools won’t set your team up for success. Leaders must create role clarity to help their teams navigate, reduce distractions and stress, and help people focus on the important tasks that make the whole team shine. Click here to read more.

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Azure, the trusted cloud for Windows Server

Azure is the best place to host Windows Server, as it provides a range of cloud services including analytics, storage, and networking. It offers native support for SQL, .NET, Remote Desktop Services, and other Windows Server workloads. Upgrade digital processes and stay relevant by using Windows Server and Azure SQL Server. Save money with Azure Hybrid Benefit while staying complaint. Twenty years of Microsoft cloud innovation can’t be wrong. Review the infographic for more modern benefits from Azure and Windows Server.

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Let’s stay connected!

Staying up-to-speed with the changing security landscape is challenging, and many businesses have large gaps in coverage. Now is the time to find integrated business security solutions built to work across platforms and cloud environments. We can help safeguard your people, data, and infrastructure. Sign up for our mailing list to explore how the world’s most comprehensive approach to security can help your business. Let’s stay connected!

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Update and protect applications with unmatched security and business continuity

One of the reasons why Microsoft Windows Server & SQL Server are popular among businesses is because of their proven security and compliance capabilities. Azure not only improves performance, but also provides multiple layers of security, like the secure foundation of its physical data centers, operational best practices, and engineering processes that meet industry standard guidelines. Sign up to say connected, we’ll help you learn more about migrating to Microsoft Windows SQL Server on Azure.

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Microsoft Digital Defense Report

Safeguarding your business today is challenging. It’s hard to know where to look when threats are everywhere. But knowledge is powerful. This report encompasses learnings from security experts, practitioners, and defenders at Microsoft to empower you to defend against cyberthreats. Read about the state of cybercrime, nation-state threats, hybrid workforce security, disinformation, actionable insights, and more. Is your business protected? Click here to learn more.

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x15ventures powers, updates, and optimizes desktop environment with Microsoft Managed Desktop

x15ventures is the venture-scaling arm of one of Australia’s big four banks. In its early stages, x15 realized it needed a technology environment that supported the agility and innovation potential of startups, but that also prioritized scalability and safety. It turned to Microsoft Managed Desktop for end-to-end device management and security monitoring. Read on to see how x15 has protected its devices to stay agile, while also taking advantage of the power of the cloud.

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Dairy company centralizes its data in Azure, gains flexibility and productivity

Swedish company Arla Foods is the fifth-largest dairy company in the world. In its pursuit of modern digital transformation, Arla’s Senior Manager developed a leadership team focused on centralizing data across the company, making data more accessible and analytics easier to understand. The team developed an architecture on Azure that would create one centralized location for data anywhere in the company for ingestion and consumption—a real benefit for reporting in Power BI.

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