With phishing attacks on the rise, averaging over 1,185 incidents daily for organizations, investing in cybersecurity is more critical than ever. While technology plays a key role, phishing simulation training stands out as a highly effective defense. It equips employees to recognize and respond to threats, proving to be an invaluable addition to any security strategy.
In today’s rapidly changing cybersecurity landscape, it’s crucial for organizations to remain proactive in safeguarding their assets and preserving credibility.
In an era dominated by technology, the need for robust cybersecurity measures has never been more critical. As companies face growing cyber threats, it becomes important to have a resilient defense strategy in place. One key component of this strategy is the implementation of an Emergency Admin Access account, fortified by the security advantage of FIDO2 keys.
Let’s delve into why these elements are crucial in safeguarding your digital assets.
As a part of the Microsoft Security Center, Secure Score automatically rates your Office 365 and Windows 10 environment. By following its recommendations, it can help protect your organization from threats. The score is calculated every 24 hours, and it takes up to 48 hours for every change to a measured action to show in the results.
Every Microsoft 365 / Office 365 admin, or a user with required permissions, can reach an organization’s score via the Microsoft Security Center. There are two types of permissions: read & write (global administrator, security administrator, exchange administrator), and read-only roles (security operator, user administrator, helpdesk administrator, etc.).
In the overview page, score points are divided into these groups:
It also shows the total score, graph with benchmark comparisons, and a list of prioritized improvement actions.
Security recommendations are located in the improvement actions tab. They show the status of each action, for example: completed, not completed, resolved through the third party, and ignored.
“Not Scored” actions are not tracked by Secure Score. If a certain action becomes tracked and if you already completed it, the secure score will reflect the change.
For secure access, new improvement actions require registering your users or admins for multi-factor authentication.
Secure Score is available for SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, Information Protection, etc. Other solutions that can be tracked are Intune, Azure AD, and Cloud App Security.
Also, Microsoft recently announced that tracking for Azure ATP and Microsoft Defender will be available soon.
Keep in mind that there is no online service that is 100% immune from security breaches, and increasing the Secure Score is not a guarantee against these breaches.
Let’s say you are the CEO or another important person in your organization, and you want to set up corporate branding on all your computers with the Windows 10 operating system. Your contracted technical support does not have to connect to each computer individually to set the wallpaper; it can be configured at once.
Also, to decrease the chance of a potential malware attack, it’s good to have a custom login screen for your Office 365 organizational account with a recognizable visual identity.
For corporate branding configuration – wallpapers, lock screens and the login screen – 3 PRO uses scripts and the Microsoft Intune Cloud-based service for device management.
In case you represent your organization at an online meeting or you are speaking at the conference, at some point the attenders will see your wallpaper, and will be able to more effectively connect the business brand to the person.
The other scenario is when you need to sign-in to your portal.office.com account – the aim is that the user recognizes that he is on the correct login screen. Many phishing emails will lead to a native look-a-like portal.office.com login screen, so, just to be sure, we recommend setting up the login screen with the organization’s branding. 3 PRO can customize the background, banner logo and additional text for your Office 365 organizational sign-in page.
