It's better to take action than wait for attacks
Microsoft 365 Defender researches and analyzes miscreants' techniques and maps them to the enterprise's security posture, with the information made available in a threat analytics report.
"For each threat, you'll be able to view a score that reflects the severity of misconfigurations the attacker exploited and the number of affected assets," Cohen wrote, adding that an enterprise's security team can"view the list of recommended posture controls directly from the recommended actions tab within the incident or threat analytics page in Microsoft 365 Defender.
The profiles are updated daily through automated discovery and scanning of the threat landscape, with the data maintained by a team of more than 8,000 experts around the world. Microsoft's threat intelligence community tracks more than 300 threat groups – including 160 nation-state gangs and more than 50 ransomware operators.
Volt Typhoon is a threat group linked to the Chinese government and identified by Microsoft that is attacking critical infrastructure firms in the US – including Guam, a US territory – to disrupt communications with countries and organizations in the Asia-Pacific region. US agencies and their counterparts in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK late last month issued
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