Microsoft Ignite, the company's massive customer conference in Orlando, certainly emphasizes cloud, machine learning, and software-as-a-service offerings. But managed cybersecurity services could wind up stealing the show.
Right off the top, Microsoft said it will improve Office 365’s Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) capabilities with new features to fight phishing, impersonation and domain spoofing. In addition, Windows Defender ATP will also now be able to fix some security issues, an upgrade from just alerting users. Also, Azure ATP will be able to quicken security incident investigation.
Microsoft has scheduled 345 sessions with security-related content covering both products and expertise. In a blog post, the company called out five sessions in particular targeting Microsoft 365, Azure and the Cloud. Microsoft’s not the only one with security news to showcase at Ignite.
Rackspace Managed Security Services
Managed service provider Rackspace has announced PCI compliance and cloud replication for Microsoft Hyper-V to help businesses meet compliance, data assurance and security needs.
Here’s what Rackspace rolled out:
Meanwhile, unrelated to Rackspace’s Ignite news, the company has struck a deal with SAP to provide a subscription-based offering of SAP solutions in its private hosted cloud.
Microsoft, Accenture, Avanade Tout Security
In another alliance, Accenture (a Top 100 MSSP for 2017) and Avanade said they will collaborate with Microsoft to build out and market a set of cyber defense solutions that covers managed security operations, incident response support and integrated threat hunting. The three companies have been working together in one form or another since 2000.
Here’s all you need to know on the Accenture/Avanade/Microsoft tie-up: Joint threat intelligence will be backed into the solutions in three core areas:
