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The CISO Cheat Sheet to Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2026

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Alex_Zold
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Nov 03, 2026

The Microsoft Digital Defense Report (MDDR) 2026 covers July 2025 to June 2026. Here are the key trends, numbers and top 10 security priorities security leaders need to know.

I know we’re all busy, so I’ve pulled the most important data from this year’s Microsoft Digital Defense Report into one short read. The full report is well worth exploring, but this article focuses ...
Published Nov 03, 2026
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Nov 11, 2026

Good summary. On the board list at the end, I'd report dwell time and recovery readiness side by side instead of as two separate lines. Recovery readiness is easy to report as backup job success and test results, and that tells the board a copy exists. It doesn't tell them which recovery point each critical system would come back from if the attacker was inside for two weeks before anything got encrypted. If dwell time is longer than the oldest recovery point you keep for a system, coming back from any of them brings the attacker back too.

 

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