This blog is for informing small and medium businesses about information security management
Friday, 29 January 2021
Here is how file sharing keeps this small business running at top speed
Oiselle needed to modernize and adapt their business processes to survive. This interview with Megan Murray, Director of Marketing, explores the ways Oiselle benefited from an agile, adaptable calendar and file-sharing system from Microsoft.
Securing your remote workers
Quickly pivot to remote work while turning on built-in security controls to help your workers stay secure. In our e-book, "Securing your remote workers," you'll learn how you can secure remote workers the following ways:
Enable remote access to apps to successfully connect a remote workforce.
Manage devices and apps to secure your remote workforce.
Protect your data, apps, and endpoints against threats and security risks.
Each nonprofit facing these challenges has different needs. This guide aims to show how you can use your existing investments in Microsoft 365 to secure your organization where it needs it most.
Thursday, 28 January 2021
Japanese waitress and self-taught Power BI and Azure developer digitally transforms her restaurant--and the industry
For Akiyoshi Shinobu, a waitress at Ebiya restaurant in Ise, Japan, creating superb dining experience for customers and a great place to work for colleagues has always been a passion. To accomplish both, she enrolled in a nearby computer school, and on her own time, taught herself Microsoft Power BI and Azure, and also became proficient in machine learning and A.I. Her immediate goal was to visualize the data generated by customer visits in order to improve the dining experience, deliver better service, and reduce food waste by the restaurant.
Today, the applications that she developed for Ebiya have been so effective, and become so well respected, that other restaurants and larger enterprises in the food service industry are calling upon Akiyoshi to help solve their problems. Watch the video to learn more about her incredible story.
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It's crucial for your organization to build agile processes to keep up with change. Make sure you are ready with tips, updates, and insights from Microsoft.
Wednesday, 27 January 2021
Microsoft's Windows Virtual Desktop spring refresh: What's new and next
Microsoft is improving the Windows Virtual Desktop management experience, Teams, and more. Microsoft continues to make changes to improve the overall Windows Virtual Desktop experience for users—those working remotely and in-office. Check out the new features and what's next for Windows Virtual Desktop here.
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.
Tuesday, 26 January 2021
Build Agile Business Processes Solution Overview
An organization's ability to adapt quickly to changing circumstances has never been more critical. You need to ensure that your team stays productive and efficient through twists and turns. Building agile businesses from Microsoft can help. Learn how in this brief overview video.
Monday, 25 January 2021
Microsoft a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise BI Platforms
In a crowded field of BI solutions providers, how can customers reliably identify an industry leader? By what criteria should they make such a judgment? In this Power BI blog entry, we address both questions by citing and linking to The Forrester Wave report for Q3 2019 that recognizes Microsoft as a leader in enterprise BI platforms, where we receive the highest score in the two categories of strategy and market presence. From the blog, customers can download the full Forrester report and see how Microsoft Power BI stacks up against competing solutions, as well as explore the differentiated features in the current enterprise BI market.
Work remotely, stay secure
As businesses have had to quickly pivot to new working environments, cyberattacks become an urgent concern. In this thought leadership article, you can learn some of best practices using Microsoft security that help ensure the best protection. Examples include secure access to cloud applications that protect sign-ins with security defaults, methods to manage and secure corporate data in approved apps on personal devices, and providing clear and basic information, including how to protect their devices, will help you and employees stay ahead of threats so they can remain productive.
Friday, 22 January 2021
How-to Videos for Windows Virtual Desktop
Windows Virtual Desktop provides the most productive and most secure experience for users. Get up and running with this best-in-class Microsoft program by watching these how-to videos.
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.
Thursday, 21 January 2021
Bringing remote patient care to remote patients with Microsoft Power BI and Azure
How do you deliver expert healthcare to the most remote towns and villages in South Africa, to the people who need it most? Dr. Raymond Campbell, founder of Phulukisa (which means "to heal" in the local language), turned to Microsoft for the answer. His solution: a cloud-enabled backpack that field doctors can take into remote areas across South Africa and use to screen patients for common diseases such as tuberculosis, HIV, diabetes, and heart disease. The data is then collected and uploaded to MySQL database in Azure, and the results are pushed back into Microsoft Power BI and delivered to doctors on the ground--all within a matter of minutes. Presented by Satya Nadella at the 2019 Inspire event, this short video illustrates how Microsoft solutions are enabling ordinary people with a vision to accomplish extraordinary things--and help save lives in the process.
Why Trust Windows Virtual Desktop?
Quickly deploy virtual desktops and apps to enable secure remote work. Microsoft continues to invest in cybersecurity research and development and makes changes to improve the overall Windows Virtual Desktop experience for employees. Learn how this program can be a tool to keep your workload safe.
Wednesday, 20 January 2021
4 strategies for modernizing your business applications
Discover four key strategies for modernizing your business applications—rehost, refactor, rearchitect, and rebuild. In this infographic, you'll learn why and when to use these specific strategies.
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Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Shipping company navigates to the cloud, boosts security, cuts operating costs by 50%
Qatari shipping and maritime company Nakilat has one of the world's largest fleets of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, transporting LNG from Qatar to global markets. To increase its competitive advantage, Nakilat wanted to improve employee productivity and mobility, without compromising on data security. It uses Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Cloud App Security to deliver highly secure cloud-first workplaces—shipboard and in the office. Nakilat also adopted the Microsoft Azure platform to optimize its operations and improve business continuity, reducing operating costs by 50 percent. See more in this video.
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.
View: 6 steps to building a holistic security strategy for your nonprofit
Monday, 18 January 2021
Ste. Michelle Wine Estates ensure business continuity with Dynamics 365
In this video, see how Ste. Michelle Wine Estates continues to prioritize the safety and well-being of its employees and customers during the COVID-19 pandemic. The company has taken numerous precautions to minimize risk and has transformed business processes to serve its customers during these difficult times. Microsoft Dynamics 365 solutions help this company stay in touch with employees, maintain facilities, meet new business requirements, and more.
Data-Minded Or Data-Blinded?
Collaboration and networks are about people not data. In this Forbes article, the CEO of Brainpool.ai, a worldwide network of AI and Machine Learning experts, explores opportunities and concerns around the use of network data analysis to transform organizations.
Friday, 15 January 2021
Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built-in intelligence and automation
Attackers will cross multiple domains like 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 business vulnerable to attack. Microsoft Threat Protection stops attack sprawl and auto-heals enterprise assets with built in intelligence and automation. Read on to learn more.
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.
Thursday, 14 January 2021
SQL Server 2017
SQL Server 2017 is now available on Linux and Docker! This infographic provides an overview of the SQL Server 2017 features that drive industry-leading performance and security. Check it out for an at-a-glance look at the benefits to your business.
New tools to help IT empower employees securely in a remote work world
Enable your users to work from anywhere with confidence by controlling information access across different device endpoints and networks. Additionally, learn how you can benefit from new Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop features to enhance meeting experiences and ensure cost effectiveness.
Wednesday, 13 January 2021
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Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Microsoft pivots to digital selling to reach more customers
This blog post details how Microsoft uses Dynamics 365 to keep up with digital sales. As more customers move to digital buying, the volume of leads generated has grown exponentially. To keep up, Microsoft Digital Sales turned to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Sales and Sales Insights to scale for increased demand, engage customers remotely, and increase seller productivity.
Greater Security
Greater security at lower cost with the expertise and power of Microsoft security solutions. Learn more about simplifying and fortifying with Microsoft security.
Monday, 11 January 2021
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.
All you need to know about Windows Virtual Desktop
Windows Virtual Desktop is the only cloud-based service that delivers a multi-user Windows 10 experience, optimized for Office 365 ProPlus—which means you can deliver a virtual desktop experience and remote apps to any device with cost advantages previously only possible with server-based virtualization. Here's all you need to know about WVD.
Friday, 8 January 2021
Azure Sentinel
Azure Sentinel is intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise. Collect data, detect threats, investigate incidents, and rapidly respond with Sentinel.
Kennametal embraces Microsoft cloud strategy to drive business innovation
Kennametal has invested heavily in Microsoft cloud technologies as part of its digital transformation journey to reduce costs, increase productivity, and empower workers to deliver superior results for their customers. In this video, see how they utilize Microsoft Azure cloud platform and services to Microsoft Dynamics 365 business applications to Microsoft 365 productivity, security, and mobility tools. Kennametal believes that Microsoft resources will help the company fulfill its business promises.
Thursday, 7 January 2021
Microsoft makes it easier to get started with Windows Virtual Desktops
With a massive shift from working in-office to working remotely, Microsoft made updates to make it effortless for users to work with Windows Virtual Desktop. Learn what steps Brad Anderson, Vice President for Microsoft 365, and his team took to make the program easier for customers to use.
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.
Wednesday, 6 January 2021
Why Windows Virtual Desktop
Setting up Windows Virtual Desktop enables users to increase productivity and security. Learn how you can develop and scale your products and services on demand with Windows Virtual Desktop.
Microsoft Super Bowl Commercial - Braylon O'Neill
Answering the question, "What is that we can do that is unique; that is impactful," guides the development of everything Microsoft delivers. In this video showing a Super Bowl commercial, discover how Microsoft technology empowers young Braylon O'Neill to do more, achieve more and experience courage in the face of opportunity.
Tuesday, 5 January 2021
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.
ComAp: Digital Transformation of Sales
The Czech company ComAp makes control units for diesel, gas, dual fuel, and other kinds of power generators for clients all over the world. Its devices can be found in hospitals, banks, and data centers. Since its foundation in 1991, ComAp has put emphasis on readiness in providing services to its customers. The effort to be always there for its customers has become one of the company's essential values. For ComAp, digitalization of sales with Microsoft has enabled global consolidation and consistency throughout their offices.
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