By Michael Browning
Microsoft threat intelligence empowers our customers to keep up with the global threat landscape and understand the threats and vulnerabilities most relevant to their organization. We are excited to announce that we have recently accelerated the speed and scale at which we publish threat intelligence, giving our customers more critical security insights, data, and guidance than ever before.
This blog will show how our 10,000 interdisciplinary experts and applied scientists reason over more than 78 trillion daily threat signals to continuously add to our understanding of threat actors and activity. It will also show how this increased publishing cadence in Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI), Threat Analytics, and Copilot for Security helps enrich and contextualize hundreds of thousands of security alerts while enhancing customers' overall cybersecurity programs.
Increased Intel Profiles
Microsoft has published 270 new Intel profiles over the past year to help customers maintain situational awareness around the threat activity, techniques, vulnerabilities, and the more than 300 named actors Microsoft tracks. These digital compendiums of intelligence help organizations stay informed about potential threats, including Indicators of Compromise (IOCs), historical data, mitigation strategies, and advanced hunting queries. Intel profiles are continuously maintained and updated by Microsoft's threat intelligence team, which added 24 new Intel profiles in May alone, including 10 Activity Profiles, 4 Actor Profiles, 5 Technique Profiles, and 5 Vulnerability Profiles.
Intel profiles are published to both MDTI and Threat Analytics, which can be found under the "Threat Intelligence" blade in the left-hand navigation menu in the Defender XDR Portal. In Threat Analytics, customers can understand how the content in Intel profiles relates to devices and vulnerabilities in their environment. In MDTI, Intel Profiles enhance security analyst triage, incident response, threat hunting, and vulnerability management workflows.
In Copilot for Security, customers can quickly retrieve information from intel profiles to contextualize artifacts and correlate MDTI and Threat Analytics content and data with other security information from Defender XDR, such as incidents and hunting activities, to help customers assess their vulnerabilities and quickly understand the broader scope of an attack. For example, Copilot can reason over vulnerability intelligence in MDTI and Threat Analytics to deliver a customized, prioritized list based on a customer organization’s unique security posture.
Read the full post here: More Threat Intelligence Content in MDTI, TA Enables Better Security Outcomes
