Consulting firm delights customers and finds growth with Microsoft Teams Essentials

Every Morning Consulting, a small sales consultancy based in Madrid, Spain, works to help SMB clients achieve growth and improve profitability.

During pre-pandemic times, most meetings with clients were in person, and traveling was the norm. When COVID-19 hit, the firm turned to the free version of Microsoft Teams, and later adopted Microsoft Teams Essentials for its expanded capabilities.

With Teams Essentials, Every Morning Consulting is now closer to their customers and more flexible in day-to-day day activities. And they see new avenues of growth for the future.

 

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Meet the Security Experts - Anne Woodley

Meet Anne, a Microsoft Security Specialist. She is passionate about her job and helping her customers improve their security and productivity. To be secure in an ever-evolving threat landscape, she believes organisations must integrate their digital estate with intelligent security solutions to gain visibility and be more proactive.

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Microsoft Defender for IoT

Organisations are relying more on intelligent devices to optimise efficiency. In fact, experts predict CISOs will soon be responsible for securing an attack surface 3x larger than just a few years ago. These devices are often unmanaged, unpatched, misconfigured, and unmonitored – making them ripe to be exploited. Microsoft Defender for IoT is an agentless solution for unified asset discovery and security monitoring across all types of unmanaged devices across your IT/OT landscape. It can: -Discover IoT/OT devices -Manage IoT/OT vulnerabilities -Continuously monitor, detect and respond to threats -Increase operational efficiency -Unify IT/OT security and governance Defender for IoT offers agentless, IoT/OT-aware network detection and response (NDR) that is rapidly deployed and provides unified security across diverse IoT and industrial devices. It shares data seamlessly with Microsoft’s SIEM and XDR platforms—Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft 365 Defender—and interoperates with other SOC tools such as Splunk, IBM QRadar, and ServiceNow.

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Get more productivity, better security, and cost savings when you maximize the value of your technology investments with Microsoft 365.

No matter how you run your business or your team, Microsoft 365 is the cloud-first platform that enables all the ways people work today – wherever, whenever, and however.

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Microsoft Defender for IoT

As organisations increasingly rely on intelligent devices to optimise efficiency, experts predict CISOs will soon be responsible for securing an attack surface three times larger than just a few years ago. These devices are often unmanaged, unpatched, misconfigured, and unmonitored, making them ideal access points for attackers looking to compromise organisations of all kinds. Microsoft Defender for IoT is an agentless solution for unified asset discovery and security monitoring across all types of unmanaged devices. Get continuous visibility into IoT/OT assets, vulnerabilities, and threats, integrated with Microsoft SIEM and XDR solutions to enable rapid detection and response across IT/OT networks.

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Unify your OT and IT

When global lime and minerals producer Lhoist’s united its IT security and industrial automation teams with Microsoft Azure Defender for IoT, they saw powerful asset discovery, vulnerability management, and threat monitoring capabilities. As a result, they are building a safer, more resilient and more efficient operation. “OT and IT share the same goal of ensuring production availability, delivering for our customers, and maintaining the health and safety of our co-workers,” says Clément Herssens, CISO. Even Lhoist automation staff who weren’t focused on cybersecurity soon recognized the operational efficiency benefits from the wealth of monitoring information now available to them, now bringing major cost and time savings along with overall increase in ROI.

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How Microsoft 365 Improves Productivity

With Microsoft Teams and familiar Office apps, people can connect using one-on-one conversations and group chats, and they can easily access files, chats, and apps in one workspace. Coworkers can make faster decisions, with real-time sharing in meetings, instant feedback and collaboration. And they can share, edit, and co-author documents wherever, whenever.

Microsoft 365 makes productivity easy. See how it can help you do more with less.

 

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Microsoft Security Webinar: Unifying Operational Technology and IT Security

In an ever-changing threat landscape, most organisations are looking to understand their digital estate and modernise their IT security in response. Whilst this strengthens your security posture and reduces risk, IT security is still just one piece of the puzzle. The world of Operational Technology (OT) is often managed separately. Without integration and visibility across the entire estate, organisations are opening themselves up to increased vulnerabilities that can be exploited. In this webinar, we will discuss how organisations can be confident in their OT security. Join us to discover how IT and OT security can integrate to discover, secure, protect, detect and manage threats.

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Meet the security expert: Rosen Georgiev

Meet Rosen Georgiev. As Security and Compliance Technical Specialist, he is on the frontline, building secure solutions that help organisations build trust. He talks about why he became a cybersecurity professionals, and what he thinks are key to building a trusted relationship between business and customer.

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Simplifying the complex: Introducing Privacy Management for Microsoft 365

Staying ahead of privacy regulations can be complicated, but with Privacy Management for Microsoft 365, we can help you safeguard personal data and build a privacy-resilient workplace. Learn how to: -Identify critical privacy risks and conflicts with an aggregated view of their privacy posture, including the amount, category, and location of private data, and associated privacy risks and trends over time. -Automate privacy operations and response to subject rights requests. Deliver actionable insights that allow privacy administrators to automate privacy policies by using an out-of-box template or create a custom policy to meet an organisation’s specific needs. -Empower employees to make smart data handling decisions eliminating the need to choose between privacy and productivity. Plus, access partner solutions that will extend your capability beyond your Microsoft 365 environment, and leverage APIs to integrate your existing processes within Privacy Management to ensure you meet regulations now and in the future.

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Microsoft Ignite 2022: Top Security Announcements

This article from CRN highlights the most recent security announcements from Ignite 2022. Read on for the biggest updates, as well as perspectives from customers and partners who are doing more with less, and “going all-in on Microsoft.”

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Microsoft's Surface family of products

Shakespeare Martineau wanted greater agility and freedom with improved end-point security, flexible productivity and practicality. When they migrated to Surface devices, they got that and more. Improved morale, increased productivity, reduced downtime, an increase in billable hours and enhanced client satisfaction. “Microsoft Surface complimented our strategy and was the device of choice to support our Positive, Passionate, People. The product is very good – in style, different ways of working and real performance – and it gives our staff the agility and freedom to work in a way that suits their lives whilst maximising productivity and effectiveness,” says Dal Virdi, IT Director.

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Equitable Bank Thwarts Red Team with Comprehensive Microsoft Security Solutions

Equitable Bank (EQB), seeks to drive change in Canadian banking to enrich people’s lives, and this mission comes down to one thing: trust.

When a Mandiant Red Team cybersecurity test revealed weaknesses in its security defenses, EQB took action. It replaced two security and event management solutions with Microsoft Sentinel and deployed Microsoft 365 Defender solutions to cover endpoints, identities, and cloud apps.

After experiencing startlingly improved results in a follow-up test a year later, EQB knows it’s on the right track. Its Microsoft deployments—and its innovative spirit—continue.

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Microsoft Privacy Management

Hybrid work has caused organisations to fluidly transition between work and personal activities. As a result, more personal data is being generated, retained, shared, and accessed across a multitude of devices and clouds, making the data susceptible to attacks. In fact, 58 percent of data breaches in 2020 involved personal data and there are growing concerns over trust in technologies and organisations that handle personal data and the data privacy regulation landscape is more complex than ever and staying ahead of it can feel impossible. But this work is critical— to safeguard people and the tools they use to stay connected, get work done, and thrive in today’s hybrid environment. In this digital event, Microsoft simplifies some of the complexity around data privacy. Explore Microsoft’s Privacy Management for Microsoft 365 and learn more on:  • Identifying critical privacy risks and conflicts • Automating privacy operations and responding to subject rights requests • Empowering employees to make smart data handling decisions

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Meet the Microsoft Security Experts

Meet Danielle Racher, Microsoft UK’s lead for Media and Telecoms Services in Enterprise Security. She shares her top tips of driving an effective security strategy and why she believes security is an enabler of innovation. Learn the foundations of security, why MFA is one of the most important layers of protection and how Microsoft solutions can enable organisations to achieve more.

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Keep Up With the Latest News

Get more productivity, better security, and cost savings when you maximize the value of your technology investments with Microsoft 365.

No matter how you run your business or your team, Microsoft 365 is the cloud-first platform that enables all the ways people work today – wherever, whenever, and however.

Sign up for our mailing list to learn why Microsoft 365 is a better way to work for your small business. We can help you do more with less. Let’s stay connected!

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Improve Security and Reduce Your Bottom Line

Microsoft 365 provides a holistic approach to security, helping you protect identities, data, apps, and devices across on-premises, cloud, and mobile environments. This approach addresses the four foundations of computer system security: Identity and access management, threat protection, information protection, and security management.

See how your business can build a culture of security, all while saving money with Microsoft 365.

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Charity enhances security and compliance, saves costs with Microsoft 365 security

Derby County Community Trust (DCCT) aims to improve people’s lives using the power of sports. With Microsoft 365 security and compliance technology, DCCT is now empowered to fully realise its security goals across its entire device estate. With a strong endpoint and identity-based zero trust approach, employees can now securely access their work from anywhere. Plus, by consolidating and unifying their security tools, they’re able to benefit from cost savings. “We wanted all employee devices, along with our entire device estate, to be compliant, secure, and centrally managed. DCCT handles a lot of information on behalf of schools, colleges, and other customers. It’s essential that information is classified appropriately and is kept secure, ” says Simon Carnall, Head of Community

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Securing your organisation from anywhere with endpoint security

The shift to hybrid work means organisations need new and more efficient ways to secure employee devices from anywhere. Microsoft Surface can help simplify device deployment and management, while driving productivity and security. In this webinar, join Microsoft Surface security experts to learn: • The latest tech to help set up and configure Surface devices right out of the box. • Real-world use cases of securing device deployment at scale and in the cloud. • The steps Surface engineers take towards firmware protection and device security. • Key resources to implement new, agile device provisioning and distribution methods.

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3 ways to build a strong security culture to reduce insider risk

Whether accidental and incidental, insider risks can pose a threat to your organisation. According to the 2020 Ponemon study, The Cost of Insider Threats, the average cost of an insider risk has increased 31 percent since 2018 to about £8.2m per incident. Due to the rise of hybrid working, leaders and IT teams must have visibility over insider risks. In this blog, Microsoft’s Dan Cousineau shares the tools organisations can use and how to build a culture of trust that will reduce the risk of insider threats.

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Microsoft CEO: 'Software is ultimately the biggest deflationary force' for businesses

Today’s macro-economic environment affects businesses of all sizes and is forcing change globally.

In this Yahoo Finance article, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella shares his perspectives on the economy, how the right technology is the ultimate productivity tool, and how Microsoft is adjusting.

“All of the macroeconomic headwinds that all of us face — none of us are immune — the tailwind we at least as a company have is our ability to deliver these solutions. Software is ultimately the biggest deflationary force businesses can use,” Nadella says.

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Drax Group adopts a holistic security stance with Microsoft integrated threat protection

As a part of the critical infrastructure in the UK, electricity generator Drax Group is a significant target for would-be attackers. To give them a single view over their security infrastructure, Drax began adopting a holistic security ecosystem based on Microsoft integrated threat protection. “What I came to understand is that using multiple solutions increases integration complexity between 400 and 500 percent and can also triple the costs of adoption,” says Martin Sloan, Security Director. By standardising on Microsoft integrated threat protection, Sloan was able to reduce the budget of Drax’s security transition by 75 percent in the same time frame. Drax considers the ever-evolving Microsoft security infrastructure as more than a series of products to adopt. “The key thing we wanted from a strategic partner in the security space is an organisation that’s dedicated to continuous improvement and also infuses that expertise into a familiar platform and interface,” says Sloan. “Microsoft consistently delivers superior solutions for identifying threats, protecting us from harm, detecting irregularities, responding rapidly to issues, and helping us recover from potential breaches.”

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Floral retailer uses Microsoft Teams to make business bloom

House of Lilac, a premium flower company based in Miami, delivers bouquets and arrangements across the city and ships gifts nationwide. 

House of Lilac’s digital transformation was the pivotal factor that helped them adapt during the COVID-19 pandemic. From the outset, the company invested in its digital presence as a flower retailer, and the payoff shows.

House of Lilac uses Microsoft 365 to consolidate everything under one application. It helped owner Melanie Fernandez organize the company, reduce costs, and increase efficiency and productivity—resulting in a business that’s blooming.

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The threat within your business: protecting data from insider risks

The accelerated use of hybrid work means your organisation needs to safeguard its data against attacks from within. While most insider attacks are unintentional, they can happen at any time. In this e-book, The Threat within Your Business: Protecting Data from Insider Risks, explore three inside risks financial institutions must defend against: 1. One-time accidents that are usually the result of oversight. 2. Systematic risks stemming from shortcuts or workarounds. 3. Purposeful theft or sabotage by an employee or contractor. Learn what it takes to develop strong and effective policies that provide strict guidelines to help keep your data secure, maintain trusted customer relationships, reduce your risk and adhere to regulations.

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