Microsoft Defender will soon be a lot better at stopping corporate cyberattacks

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A number of advanced Microsoft 365 Defender features first announced last year as a means of stopping ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks, have now reached public preview, the company has announced. The features, called “automatic disruption” use “high-confidence Extended Detection and Response (XDR) signals across endpoints, identities, email, and SaaS apps”, Microsoft explained, saying they’ll help contain active security attacks “quickly and effectively”. They’ll work by automatically disabling, or restricting, devices and user accounts that

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