Microsoft Brings Post-Breach Detection To Windows 10 (sdtimes.com)

mmoorebz writes: Microsoft is recognizing the increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks on enterprises, which is why it is taking a new approach to protect its customers. Today it announced its new post-breach enterprise security service called Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection, which will respond to these advanced attacks on companies' networks. Attackers these days are using social engineering and zero-day vulnerabilities to break into corporate networks. According to Microsoft, thousands of attacks were reported in 2015 alone. The company found that it currently takes an enterprise more than 200 days to detect a security breach, and 80 days to contain it. When there is such a breach, the attackers can steal company data, find private information, and damage the brand and customer trust in the company.

Comments

Vulnerabilities?

[AHuxley]

Using Microsoft products is the way into the corporate network. Stop buying junk products with backdoors, air gap, hire good staff and then secure your networks.

Re:Vulnerabilities?

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anyone ever set out to hire bad staff?

No, but these practices ensure that it occurs and that good staff doesn't stay for very long:

- Maximizing hires of people from the oppressed group of the week
- Replacing experienced staff with H1-Bs
- Expecting a new hire to be immediately up to speed on everything the first time they walk into the office
- Forcing tech employees to seek out training on their own time and dime because "it's expensive"
- Treating vacation and sick time as frivolities that can be declined at the discretion of management
- Never allowing or facilitating promotion of tech employees and watching them leave the company after a few years
- Expecting 24/7/365 availability via phone and email of tech employees

Does it detect Windows 10 as an Advanced Threat?

[waspleg]

If so, will it be renamed Microsoft Ouroboros?

What about the other 10% of IT bosses?

[Freshly Exhumed]

From TFA: "After surveying its own customers, the company found that 90% of IT directors want an advanced threat protection solution that identifies an attack quick, before the breach actually occurs."

Presumably the remaining 10% of Microsoft customers surveyed felt that it is all so pointless, so futile. Windows is a seive. What's the use... we're all doomed... no... point... ... Daisy... Daisy...