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How to Extend Microsoft’s Ransomware Protections

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How to Extend Microsoft’s Ransomware Protections

Microsoft released a Cyber Signals report highlighting the growth of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) offerings and recommending three defensive pillars: credential hygiene through multifactor authentication (MFA) and network segmentation, visibility through elimination of blind spots, and tool management via patching, backups, and firewall configuration. The article outlines these Microsoft recommendations and then discusses how organizations with non-Microsoft security tools can extend these protections across their broader toolsets.

Why it matters: Security teams across all organizations need to assess their ransomware defenses today, particularly MFA enforcement and network segmentation, since RaaS groups lower the barrier to entry for attackers and blind spots in tool coverage create direct opportunities for compromise.

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