Tuesday, January 31, 2023

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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Friday, January 27, 2023

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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Thursday, January 26, 2023

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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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

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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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

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 ClĂ©ment 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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