Microsoft boosts threat intelligence with new Defender programs

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Drawing from final 12 months's acquisition of RiskIQ, Microsoft is including two new threat-intelligence functions to its Defender product household, and individually providing new detection and response capabilities for SAP ERP techniques to its Sentinel SIEM (safety info and occasion administration) product.

Combining intelligence from the safety analysis group at RiskIQ with current in-house safety findings, Microsoft has developed Microsoft Defender Menace Intelligence, a standalone library of uncooked adversary knowledge. Microsoft says it's providing the library without cost, accessible straight by all customers, or from inside its current Defender household of safety merchandise, in line with a weblog put up from Vasu Jakkal, a Microsoft vp for safety, compliance, id, and administration.

Microsoft has additionally launched Microsoft Defender Exterior Assault Floor Administration, designed to scan customers' computing environments and connections to supply safety groups with the identical view an attacker has of their group whereas choosing a goal.

Menace library provides real-time adversary intelligence

In response to Jakkal, Microsoft will mix its in-house safety knowledge—gathered from a monitoring community of 35 ransomware households, 250+ distinctive nation-states, cybercriminals, and risk actors—with the intelligence acquired by RiskIQ, for real-time updating of the brand new Defender Menace Intelligence (DFI) library.

The library will present uncooked risk intelligence detailing adversaries by title— correlating their instruments, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)—and can present updates when new info is distilled from a bunch of sources together with Microsoft’s nation-state monitoring group, Microsoft Menace Intelligence Heart (MSTIC), and the Microsoft 365 Defender safety analysis groups. 

DFI is geared toward serving to safety operations facilities (SOCs) perceive the particular threats their organizations face and harden their safety posture accordingly, added Jakkal.

The DFI intelligence can be anticipated to boost the detection capabilities of Microsoft Sentinel and all the household of Microsoft Defender merchandise. Extra sources of data for DFI are anticipated to be added later this 12 months, Jakkal stated.

Defender EASM supplies "attacker view" of property

Designed to supply safety groups with the power to find unknown and unmanaged assets which are seen and accessible from the web, Defender Exterior Assault Floor Administration (EASM) will primarily scan the web and  linked property to catalog a buyer’s surroundings and its internet-facing assets.

Recognized assets—together with endpoints, agentless and unmanaged property—can then be introduced underneath safe administration with SIEM and prolonged detection and response (XDR) instruments.

“With the identical view an attacker has, Defender Exterior Assault Floor Administration helps prospects uncover unmanaged assets that could possibly be potential entry factors for an attacker,” Jakkal stated within the weblog put up. The corporate didn't instantly element pricing for the product.

Sentinel will get new SAP monitoring options

In the meantime, Microsoft Sentinel, the corporate’s cloud-native SIEM and SOAR (safety orchestration, automation, and response) software, will provide help for SAP alerts. SAP ERP functions, which could be run from each on-premises and cloud infrastructure, are complicated and should have dangers reminiscent of privilege escalation and suspicious downloads. These could be monitored, detected, and responded to by new options being added to Microsoft Sentinel, the corporate stated.

The Microsoft Sentinel monitoring capabilities for SAP will likely be usually accessible with a six-month free promotion beginning this month, and billing will begin on February 1, 2023, as an add-on cost to the prevailing Microsoft Sentinel consumption-billing mannequin, Microsoft stated.

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