All news with #microsoft defender xdr tag

🔒 Microsoft has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Extended Detection and Response Software 2025 assessment. Microsoft Defender XDR is highlighted for broad signal coverage across endpoints, identities, email and collaboration, SaaS apps, cloud workloads, and data, plus AI-driven automation and native SIEM integration that consolidate visibility and accelerate response. IDC also cited Microsoft Security Copilot and automatic attack disruption as key differentiators that reduce dwell time and free SOC teams to focus on higher-value tasks.

🔒 Microsoft’s latest Forrester TEI study found a 242% return on investment over three years for organizations using Microsoft Defender. The analysis attributes $17.8 million in total benefits and reports an average payback period of less than six months for a composite organization. Integrated with Microsoft Sentinel, Defender streamlines SecOps by consolidating tooling, lowering false positives, and accelerating response through automation and KQL-enabled detections. Customers cite improved visibility across hybrid and multicloud environments and reduced operational overhead.

🔒 Azure outlines a layered blueprint for building trustworthy, enterprise-grade AI agents. The post emphasizes identity, data protection, built-in controls, continuous evaluation, and monitoring to address risks like data leakage, prompt injection, and agent sprawl. Azure AI Foundry introduces Entra Agent ID, cross-prompt injection classifiers, risk and safety evaluations, and integrations with Microsoft Purview and Defender. Join Microsoft Secure on September 30 to learn about Foundry's newest capabilities.

🛡️ Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Defender Experts describe the ClickFix social engineering technique, where attackers trick users into copying and pasting commands that execute malicious payloads. Observed since early 2024 and active through 2025, these campaigns deliver infostealers, RATs, loaders, and rootkits that target Windows and macOS devices. Lures arrive via phishing, malvertising, and compromised sites and often impersonate legitimate services or CAPTCHA verifications. Organizations should rely on user education, device hardening, and Microsoft Defender XDR layered protections to detect and block ClickFix activity.

🛡️The Phishing Triage Agent is now in Public Preview and automates triage of user-reported suspicious emails within Microsoft Defender. Using large language models, it evaluates message semantics, inspects URLs and attachments, and detects intent to classify submissions—typically within 15 minutes—automatically resolving the bulk of false positives. Analysts receive natural‑language explanations and a visual decision map for each verdict, can provide plain‑language feedback to refine behavior, and retain control via role‑based access and least‑privilege configuration.