Threat Vector: Social Engineering
Help your users help you protect data. Social engineering is one of the most prevalent ways a malicious actor can gain access to your data because of how easy it is. Phishing emails are so common that they are the initial cause for 80-90% of security incidents. It only takes one user clicking on something […]
Why Am I Not Getting Alerts in Defender for Office 365?
Discover How to Monitor All Your Email Incidents. Analysts at CyberMSI had recently set up a test environment for Defender for Office 365 with roughly 10 users in it. They found that the test environment was receiving as high as 40 phishing emails a day without any of them generating an incident in the 365 […]
Addressing Solorigate and Other Zero-Day Attacks
Planning Helps You Have a Prepared Response in a Crisis. Last December the public and private sectors were both shaken by the Solorigate zero-day attack. Like other zero-day attacks, this type of attack had not been seen before, so it was stressful for everyone involved to put it mildly. Ever since then, cybersecurity analysts at […]
Threat Vector: Dumpster Diving
One man’s trash is another man’s breach. The term “dumpster diving” is used to refer to looking through discarded items from the organization to get additional information. A malicious actor does not necessarily have to go through a literal dumpster to find information discarded by the organization, but it is a good place to start. […]
Which Microsoft Security License Should I Get?
Spend 30 minutes deciding instead of months researching. Microsoft is delivering best-in-class cloud security products that are being held back by a very complex licensing system. Industry research organizations like Gartner stated this point explicitly in its most recent Magic Quadrant evaluation for endpoint protection platforms. CyberMSI routinely explains Microsoft licensing to its customers. In […]
Entities Recognized by Microsoft Sentinel and the Investigation Graph
Get more value out of your Microsoft Sentinel incidents with entities. Microsoft Sentinel has a limited set of entities that it will recognize while gathering information about a security incident. We discussed some of these entities in our blog about Alert Enrichment, but we did not get an opportunity to go over the recognized entities […]
Threat Vector: Network Scanning
Poor configuration could lead to malicious actors knowing your network better than your admins. Network scanning is an essential active reconnaissance tool used when looking for avenues to breach an organization. If network and security admins do not have a solid understanding of network scanning and how to reduce the impact of the scans, malicious […]
Change Management with Microsoft Sentinel
Stay on top of a SIEM that is constantly evolving. Microsoft Sentinel is constantly being updated by Microsoft security engineers. This is great for security analysts because they are constantly getting new features to work with. It is also good for admins, but the constant updates also create challenges because there is no formal change […]
Detecting Nobelium Activity with Microsoft Cloud Security Tools
Work with Microsoft and the community to prepare. The recent Nobelium email phishing campaign has been in the news a lot lately because of the threat that it poses to organizations world over. A single user clicking on the malicious link could result in a sophisticated breach where C2 servers take control of devices in […]