Monthly news - May 2024
Microsoft Defender XDR Monthly news May 2024 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 Defender products. In this edition, we are looking at all the goodness from April 2024.Hunt for compromised Azure subscriptions using Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps
In our present threat landscape, attackers are constantly trying to compromise organizations, each with their own set of motives. They may want to compromise accounts credentials to later sell, utilize compromised users to spread phishing campaigns, or even utilize the computing resources of the organization to deploy and run their own tooling. In this blog, we will describe how attackers can compromise Azure subscriptions and use them for malicious activities. In addition, we will share how Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps data can help hunt for these activities and how to mitigate the risk of compromised subscriptions.Protect sensitive SharePoint sites with Defender for Cloud Apps
Over the last couple of years, customers have continued to migrate their on-premises resources to the cloud. The ongoing need to protect the sensitive data that lives in those resources is more important than ever. By using SaaS protection solutions such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, customers can build and configure policies to protect critical collaboration applications such as SharePoint Online, OneDrive, Box, etc.
