Security News > 2021 > February > Microsoft to alert enterprise security teams when nation-state attackers target their employees

Microsoft will introduce this month a new security alert that will notify enterprise security teams when an employee is being targeted by suspected nation-state attackers.

" attacks represent some of the most advanced and persistent threat activity Microsoft tracks.

The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center follows these threats, builds comprehensive profiles of the activity, and works closely with all Microsoft security teams to implement detections and mitigations to protect our customers," the company explained in the description of the new feature.

"We're adding an alert to the security portal to alert customers when suspected nation-state activity is detected in the tenant."

Microsoft has already been alerting users of its consumer email services such as Outlook and Hotmail when they have been targeted by government-backed hackers, and has previously been directly alerting enterprise users of its offerings via email.

In July 2019, Tom Burt, Microsoft's corporate VP of Customer Security & Trust, said that in the year before, the company had notified nearly 10,000 customers they've been targeted or compromised by nation-state attacks.

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