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Microsoft says zero-touch onboarding for Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on iOS is now available in public preview, allowing enterprise admins to silently install Defender for Endpoint automatically on enrolled devices. "With this new capability, enterprises can now deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on iOS devices that are enrolled with Microsoft Endpoint Manager automatically, without needing end-users to interact with the app," Microsoft explained.
Microsoft has addressed a known issue that plagued Windows Server customers for weeks, preventing the Defender for Endpoint enterprise security platform from launching on some systems. The issue only impacts devices where customers installed Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022 security updates issued during last month's Patch Tuesday.
Microsoft Defender for Business, a new endpoint security solution specially built for small and medium-sized businesses, is now rolling out in preview worldwide.Microsoft first announced Defender for Business last month and released it in response to the 300% increase in ransomware attacks in the previous year, with over 50% of them directly impacting SMBs, according to US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
The study explores how organizations patch and manage their remote and office-based endpoints and provide employees with remote IT support. The report reveals that even though most organizations plan to keep at least some remote work in 2022, they struggle to secure and support their remote or hybrid workforce.
Many organizations lack an effective patch management program, especially when it comes to patching remote systems, says Action1. Patching security holes has become even more difficult with the advent of the remote workforce as so many endpoints are now outside the network perimeter.
A sad-faced Microsoft engineer has had to reset the "Days since we last shot ourselves in the foot" counter at the company's HQ after a security update broke Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Windows Server Core. The latter included the LTSC editions of Windows 10 as Microsoft pointed out, only devices with a Windows Server Core installation were affected.
Microsoft has confirmed a new issue impacting Windows Server devices preventing the Microsoft Defender for Endpoint security solution from launching on some systems. The enterprise endpoint security platform might fail to start or run on devices with a Windows Server Core installation.
Microsoft today announced a new endpoint security solution dubbed Microsoft Defender for Business, specially built for small and medium-sized businesses.Microsoft Defender for Business is an endpoint security solution that helps businesses with up to 300 employees protect against cybersecurity threats, including malware and ransomware, in an easy-to-use, cost-effective package.
Highlighting how endpoint exposure continues to remain a cause for concern, one third of endpoints deployed in the UK currently have no security agent installed. 70 percent of UK businesses say that they cannot ensure that every endpoint has the same level of protection.
A large-scale unauthenticated scraping of publicly available and non-secured endpoints from older versions of Prometheus event monitoring and alerting solution could be leveraged to inadvertently leak sensitive information, according to the latest research. "Due to the fact that authentication and encryption support is relatively new, many organizations that use Prometheus haven't yet enabled these features and thus many Prometheus endpoints are completely exposed to the Internet, leaking metric and label dat," JFrog researchers Andrey Polkovnychenko and Shachar Menashe said in a report.