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Microsoft is investigating an ongoing outage impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services after customers have reported experiencing connection issues."We're investigating issues impacting multiple Microsoft 365 services. We've identified a potential networking issue and are reviewing telemetry to determine the next troubleshooting steps," the Microsoft 365 team said in a Twitter thread. "We've isolated the problem to networking configuration issues, and we're analyzing the best mitigation strategy to address these without causing additional impact."

The predictions follow industry-wide research, which shows the industry is shifting away from legacy software infrastructure and standardizing on cloud-native applications - resulting in the need for new and more effective approaches to cloud-native application security. The distinction between application security and cloud security has clearly blurred as application security is now affected by the underlying cloud infrastructure, while cloud security professionals now have to take the application layer into account in their attack path analysis.

Once inside corporate networks, they move swiftly to target and exfiltrate high-value data, including data crucial to the organization, intellectual property, and personal identifiable information or sensitive PII. Structured and unstructured data are at risk. Attackers targeted structured data used in databases such as Oracle and Microsoft Azure SQL Server and for analytics in web platforms such as Databricks.

78% of security professionals expect breach and incident reporting requirements to create more work for their teams, and 77% expect increased work from privacy requirements. "Regulatory developments around both incident reporting and privacy will undoubtedly continue to ramp up in 2023," said Bill Bernard, AVP, Security Strategy at Deepwatch.

In August 2022, the commissioner sent Transparency Requests requiring seven service providers - Apple, Meta, WhatsApp, Microsoft, Snap, Skype, and anonymous chat service Omegle - to explain the tools, policies and processes they use to address child sexual exploitation and abuse material and actions. Among the findings assessing the orgs' responses, the commissioner found Microsoft isn't using the PhotoDNA image-detection technology it helped to develop and promotes as a tool "To stop the spread of online child sexual abuse photos."

In brief Let's start with the good news: according to a survey of security and business leaders, executives have become far more aware of the importance of cyber security in the past two years, better aligning security teams and leadership. It's been more of the same, cyber security firm LogRhythm wrote in its 2022 State of the Security Team report.

With Bitwarden's Folders feature, you can get more granular with the organization of your vault items. After creating your folders, you can add vault items to those folders to keep everything better organized.

There are also more security options for what Teams product marketing director Caroline Stanford called "Cone of silence" meetings at the recent Microsoft Ignite conference; those are the digital version of board meetings, financial planning meetings or reviews of unannounced products in the office "With the blinds closed and the door locked." Plus, you can use Microsoft Purview Information Protection sensitivity labels to apply the right settings for specific kinds of meetings.

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