Microsoft’s new cybersecurity service brings together technical and human experts

Microsoft has introduced a range of new managed cybersecurity services to help customers fight malware and other threats amid the ongoing cybersecurity skills crisis.

Microsoft has created a new category of managed umbrella services called Microsoft Security Experts, consisting of human-led services and machine learning to help customers meet security, compliance, identity, privacy and productivity goals. .

“Security experts combine expert-trained technology with human-led services to help organizations achieve more secure, compatible and productive results,” it said. publication explaining the new proposal.

New in this group is Microsoft Defender Experts for Hunting, a service that helps customers look for threats by combing data from Microsoft Defender, Office 365, cloud applications and identity. Microsoft says its experts will investigate the findings and provide contextual warning information and instructions to customers.

Also new is Microsoft Defender Experts for XDR, a category of managed advanced discovery and response (XDR) services offered by many cybersecurity companies. XDR service collects data from endpoints, cloud infrastructure and networks to speed up investigations, threat searches and response times.

Microsoft’s XD Defender experts promise to provide discovery and response for email, data, cloud applications and endpoint identity. The managed part of the service offers customers the ability to quickly detect, analyze, investigate and respond to threats in emails, services, identity applications and cloud applications.

Defender Experts for XDR will be released in preview in the fall of 2022, according to Microsoft.

Microsoft has also launched Microsoft Security Services for Enterprise, a dedicated managed service for enterprise customers that combines threat detection and managed XDR, using Microsoft Security and Event Management (SIEM) and Microsoft XDR information to protect all cloud environments and all platforms.

The three new managed service security products join existing services such as Microsoft’s Incident Response Security Service and its Upgrade Security Services.

The company hopes that its managed security services will be taken over by companies facing difficulties in fulfilling cybersecurity roles. Microsoft calculated last year in the United States, there are more than 460,000 open roles in cybersecurity, representing 6% of all vacancies in the country.

Highlighting its scale, Microsoft says it is hiring more than 8,500 security professionals and investing $ 20 billion in security over the next five years. He actively monitors more than 35 ransomware groups and 250 unique threats.