Tuesday, July 20, 2021

Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built-in intelligence and automation

Attackers will cross multiple domains, such as email, identity, endpoints, and applications, to find the point of least resistance. Today's defense solutions have been designed to protect, detect, and block threats for each domain separately, allowing attackers to exploit the seams and threshold differences between solutions—leaving the organization vulnerable to attack.  Microsoft  Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built in intelligence and automation. Access this article to learn more.

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Monday, July 19, 2021

Cloud migration checklist

Start planning your cloud migration today! This checklist walks you through the steps to plan, assess, and begin your cloud migration, and it offers resources to help you move to the cloud with Microsoft Azure.

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Cloud rationalization: The five Rs

Cloud rationalization is the process of evaluating assets to determine the best way to migrate or modernize each asset in the cloud. The five Rs of rationalization are a great way to frame a potential future state for any workload that's being considered as a cloud candidate. 

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El Rio Health serves clients more securely with Microsoft's cloud-based tools

Too many organizations are familiar with layering multiple individual solutions, one by one and over a span of time. This creates a maze of security tools and platforms that lends to navigation challenges for IT staff. Arizona-based El Rio Health found itself in this exact situation. It needed one integrated platform to handle all its security needs, and Microsoft 365 with E5 security bundle was the best fit.

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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

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Microsoft Analytics and AI spark innovation and enable endless opportunities for using your data to foster growth. Subscribe now!

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10 reasons to use Azure SQL in your next project

There are many database technologies available on Azure that you can choose from. Why would you use Azure SQL?  Find out in just 10 simple points. 

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Tuesday, July 13, 2021

6 steps to building a holistic security strategy for your nonprofit

Today's nonprofits need agile security frameworks built on holistic strategies embedded into technologies, processes, and training programs. This e-book highlights some of the strategies and best practices that nonprofits can use to successfully integrate security into the fabric of their operation.

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Future Generali uses Microsoft AI to Deepen Customer Engagements

Future Generali India Life Insurance Co. Ltd. adopted the use of REVA, a chatbot built on the Microsoft Bot Framework, which plays a key role in driving insightful conversations with its customers. In this video, see how the company has already seen an increase in the customer satisfaction rate by 91%, which won them the Microsoft and CNBC TV18 #AIForAll award for leveraging AI for enhancing customer engagement.

Unbeatable offers for migrating Windows Server and SQL Server to the cloud

While innovation has supplanted cost savings as the primary driver of cloud migration for many organizations, moving to the cloud needs to  make sense for your budgets and resources. Learn about the unbeatable costs offers and benefits of  migration to Azure cloud.

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Monday, July 12, 2021

Microsoft Security & Compliance Adoption Guide

With remote work as the new normal, organizations must rely on employees and volunteers who are working outside traditional business borders. This guide will help you implement the Security and Compliance capabilities of Microsoft 365 for your organization that can help you identify and manage potential risks while keeping staff connected and productive.

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Modernize digital processes to accelerate innovation and ensure data security

This one-slide introduces the benefits of using Windows Server and SQL Server with Microsoft Azure. Features include  reducing costs and streamlining IT resources; modernizing by migrating to a flexible, open cloud; innovating new apps or managing existing server apps with unlimited flexibility; and ensuring data protection, security, and business continuity.  

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Tuesday, July 6, 2021

In an era of distractions, Microsoft wants AI to be your coworker

Microsoft is aiming to adapt its productivity suite to a short-attention-span world, bringing years of research into products like PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel. This article outlines how after years of slavishly digitizing and formatting words, numbers, and images, future versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint will be much more aware of your work and how you do it. Intelligent algorithms will find patterns and meanings in the data and use the insights to help you get through your day more efficiently. This transition to smarter work software has already begun.

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Securing the hybrid cloud with Azure Security Center and Azure Sentinel

Infrastructure security  is top-of-mind for organizations managing workloads  on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid.  Azure Security Center  provides unified security management by identifying and fixing misconfigurations and providing visibility  into  threats to quickly remediate them. Azure Sentinel  collects data from  Azure  Security Center.  Learn more about this integrated and efficient solution  in this blog.

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Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel  is intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise.  Collect data, detect threats, investigate incidents, and rapidly respond with  Sentinel.

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Analytics & AI solution video

This video is a quick introduction to Microsoft Analytics and AI, explaining how to expand the reach of your data insights and gain increasing levels of efficiency and personalization. By harnessing the power of Microsoft Analytics, you can inform and drive intelligent automation through AI and machine learning. 

Monday, July 5, 2021

Quick start guide to Azure Sentinel

Security information and event management (SIEM) solutions built for yesterday's environments struggle to keep pace with today's challenges—let alone tomorrow's unimagined risks. That's why Microsoft developed Azure Sentinel, a fully cloud-native SIEM designed to serve all four aspects of security operations: Collect data at cloud scale—across all users, devices, applications, and infrastructure, both on-premises and in multiple clouds. Detect previously uncovered threats and minimize false positives using analytics and unparalleled threat intelligence from Microsoft. Investigate threats with AI and proactively hunt suspicious activities at scale, tapping into decades of cybersecurity work at Microsoft. Respond to incidents rapidly with built-in orchestration and automation of common tasks. Get this quick start guide and learn how you can use smarter, faster threat detection and response that connects data from all your sources with the cloud and Azure Sentinel.

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RapidDeploy helps first responders defend public safety with Azure Sentinel

RapidDeploy  creates its  Cloud Aided Dispatch  systems to help first responders act quickly to protect the public. There's a lot at stake, and the company's cloud-native platform must be secure against an array of serious cybersecurity threats. So, when RapidDeploy  implemented a Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) system, it chose  Microsoft  Azure Sentinel, one of the world's first  cloud-native  SIEMs. Learn about the whole story in the video below.

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