Microsoft Defender Monthly news - May 2026 Edition This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defende...

Co-author: Jeremy Tan As a security analyst who actively hunts for critical threats, one of the most frustrating things that can happen is hitting a limit mid-query or encounter an experience that ...

Microsoft Defender Monthly news - April 2026 Edition This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defen...

Every breach has one thing in common: an identity was exploited. Attackers have learned that identity is the fastest path to lateral movement and escalation. The challenge for defenders is that today...

Modern attacks increasingly exploit the sprawl of today’s digital environments. In the identity space alone, over half of today’s organizations say each person now has more than 21 distinct accounts....

Security operations centers are increasingly overwhelmed. Analysts must triage large volumes of alerts, investigate complex signals across multiple environments, and determine which threats require i...

Microsoft Defender Monthly news - March 2026 Edition This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Defen...

Compromised credentials remain one of the most common entry points for attackers. In the first half of 2025 alone, identity-based attacks surged more than 32% and its estimated that 97% of them are p...

Microsoft Defender Monthly news - February 2026 Edition This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our De...

Microsoft Defender Monthly news - January 2026 Edition This is our monthly "What's new" blog post, summarizing product updates and various new assets we released over the past month across our Def...