CYBER GUARD 365 MONITORING
What email accounts are currently compromised?
Who is the recipient of unauthorised mail forwarding?
Which 365 security controls are lacking?
CYBER GUARD’S 365 MONITORING DETECTS AND RESPONDS TO THREATS AND HACKERS TARGETING YOUR MICROSOFT 365 AND AZURE APPLICATIONS
Cyber Guards 365 monitoring detects and responds to threats and hackers targeting your Microsoft 365 and Azure applications and helping you comply with regulatory mandates like PCI, HIPAA, SOC 2 and CMMC.
One of the biggest blind spots in the cyber security is the lack of visibility into Microsoft 365 user threat data and to constantly have eyes monitoring it. Cyber Guard’s platform backed by security analysts hunting malicious and suspicious activity.
Unmonitored Microsoft 365 Users
Lack of monitoring cloud applications such as Microsoft 365 creates significant small and medium business security risks and privacy concerns that include:
- No visibility into unauthorized access and malicious plugins resulting in a data leakage
- Increased likelihood for data exfiltration resulting in a data breach
- Alert fatigue and frustration for organisations with limited cyber security staff
- Activity monitor for suspicious login even with remote or hybrid working
- Monitoring email user accounts are equally important as the traditional endpoint and firewall monitoring.
- In fact many experts and industry analysts report that email is the number one unauthorized entry vehicle establishing a foothold on SMB networks today.
The FBI continues issuing warnings to the public over cloud-based business email compromises that now cost US business owners over $2 billion
Investigation to Security Incident
Security analysts from the IT-Serve SOC team are responsible for triaging Microsoft 365 events for all users. This includes investigating each threat detected, then escalating the threat internally and to the client. And where appropriate, taking actions to remedy the threat
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Unauthorized mail forwarding rules
Hackers when compromising accounts setup forwarding to keep receiving emails even after user changes password
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Unauthorized access
Detecting unauthorised access looking for suspicious logins to identify if an account is compromised
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Brute force logon activity
Hackers often using this technique trying lots of passwords to gain entry to the accounts
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Escalation of privileges to administrative groups
Monitoring account and changes in privileged account to detect suspicious or malicious behaviour
Benefits of the Cyber Guard’s 365 Monitoring for Microsoft 365
REDUCE RESPONSE TIME
Quickly determine if your business is already compromised or under attack. With proactive security monitoring and threat hunting, Cyber Guard 365 Monitoring significantly improves detection and response time down to minutes to minimize disruption when an incident does occur.
REDUCE COST
The Cyber Guard 365 Monitoring delivers security monitoring with the power of the cloud and billed as a monthly subscription eliminating expensive capital expenditures eventually consumed by the small business owner. Cyber experts salaries are high and many businesses cannot budget for these experts internally.
SKILLS GAP
Internal IT Departments in the Middle East report having difficulty recruiting cyber security talent. Furthermore, staffing around-the-clock all year around is not practical or costly. Partnering with a Cyber Guard is proven to be more cost effective and eliminates the skill resource gap.
MULTI-TENANT SOC POWER
Investigating alerts and hunting for threats are time consuming. By partnering with the Cyber Gaurd, you get let us monitor everything, or we can also provide you with access to a cloud console, aggregating threat data providing insights across your Microsoft 365 users, back by a team of security veterans working 24/7/365.
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