Ranson Burkette

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[Microsoft Security @msftsecurity]

Attackers stopped working alone. They coordinate now—through agents. So, we built Project Perception: our new agentic security system.

The video explains it better than a caption can. https://t.co/MNcejtQIVe

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Today, we are announcing a series of updates that give customers frontier-grade security at half the cost.

MAI-Cyber-1-Flash is our first cybersecurity model, built ground up to find the most challenging vulnerabilities in complex code bases. When combined with MDASH, it delivers world-class performance at 50 percent of the cost of leading models.

We are bringing this capability to market through Project Perception, a complete agentic security offering grounded in real-world signals and security workflows. Teams of specialized agents work together to simulate attacks, detect and triage/investigate, and fix and remediate.

This is the benefit of building the harness, context/signals, and action space separate from one model family. By combining specialized models and data with the right agents, tools, security context, and harness, we can advance the frontier of cost to outcome.

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a cyberespionage campaign by the Russian state actor we track as Secret Blizzard targeting embassies in Moscow using an adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) position to deploy their custom ApolloShadow malware. https://t.co/VbI9M73D9m

[Microsoft Security @msftsecurity]

Happy World Passkey Day! How many password-related terms can you find?

Learn why using passwords increases your risk of being targeted daily—and why it's time to go passwordless: https://t.co/BGf0n5dj4O #Passwordless

[Microsoft Security @msftsecurity]

We’re prioritizing security above all else through Microsoft’s Secure Future Initiative, investing in the equivalent of 34,000 engineers. Our latest progress includes secure operations that helped thwart $4B in fraud 🔒

Read more: https://t.co/FP85CcVYrM

[Microsoft Design @MicrosoftDesign]

“There’s always an objective threat actors [hackers] are trying to accomplish, and you just need to ask: how does your feature, how does your UI, how does your UX make their job easier or harder?”

Today on the blog, Sabine Roehl shares our Secure by Design: UX Toolkit. As CVP of UX for Microsoft Security, she shares insights into how security isn’t just a technical challenge but a UX one.

🔗: https://t.co/7QENNlmzNv

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Security is our top priority, and we’re sharing our progress as we advance cybersecurity protection for Microsoft, our customers, and the industry.

[Microsoft Security @msftsecurity]

Today, we're sharing our first Secure Future Initiative (SFI) Progress Report. Explore our learnings and how we've put security above all else: https://t.co/qfw92Ws5Wp #SecureByDesign

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

New Recovery Tool to help with CrowdStrike issue impacting Windows endpoints https://t.co/DP2MoXu0Xg

[Microsoft News and Stories @MSFTnews]

Read an update on what we’ve done to help Microsoft customers recover from the recent CrowdStrike outage. Learn about our actions from the start of the incident and our collaboration with customers, cloud providers and others in the tech community. https://t.co/7lS3zl32ww

[Frank X. Shaw @fxshaw]

Helping our customers through the CrowdStrike outage https://t.co/KANSTXLkVj

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

Microsoft has announced the general availability of the Microsoft Entra Suite & Microsoft Sentinel within the Microsoft unified security operations platform, providing new capabilities that can simplify the implementation of a Zero Trust architecture:
https://t.co/TqRuTTZsgl

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Today marks the beginning of a new era for Windows, with the launch of Copilot+ PCs. We can't wait to see how these new AI-powered devices empower people to be more productive and creative.

[Ranson Burkette @ransonbb]

The world’s fastest #Windows PC! Now with AI. I’m getting one asap!

[Yusuf Mehdi @yusuf_i_mehdi]

Introducing Copilot+ PCs: the fastest, most powerful and intelligent Windows PCs ever. They give you a photographic memory of everything you’ve done on your PC and the ability to cocreate with AI in real-time! Here: https://t.co/Lz6RabK5KD

[Yusuf Mehdi @yusuf_i_mehdi]

Introducing Copilot+ PCs: the fastest, most powerful and intelligent Windows PCs ever. They give you a photographic memory of everything you’ve done on your PC and the ability to cocreate with AI in real-time! Here: https://t.co/Lz6RabK5KD

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

Microsoft has uncovered an attack that exploits critical vulnerabilities in OpenMetadata to gain access to Kubernetes workloads and leverage them for cryptomining activity. Get our analysis, IOCs, and investigation guidance: https://t.co/SwAVuBMxbR

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

Microsoft Threat Analysis Center’s latest report notes that China is using fake social media accounts to poll U.S. voters on what divides them most to sow division and possibly influence the outcome of the U.S. presidential election in its favor. https://t.co/ZwAxPOTgLV

[Microsoft Threat Intelligence @MsftSecIntel]

On January 20, 2024, the US government conducted a disruption operation against infrastructure used by a threat actor we track as Forest Blizzard (STRONTIUM), a Russian state-sponsored threat actor, as detailed here: https://t.co/gfeIE2JZYK

[Microsoft @Microsoft]

Along with BWT Alpine F1 Team, we have established the Race into STEM Program to inspire young women with a passion for motorsports through STEM learning. https://t.co/wpr85MExh0

[Satya Nadella @satyanadella]

Fantastic to be at #CES2024 to talk about our longstanding partnership with @Walmart, and how they are applying the power of Azure OpenAI Service, along with their own proprietary data and models, to transform the digital shopping experience.
https://t.co/28ff4tMBxs