Microsoft Breakout Rooms

We have been doing so much work using Microsoft Teams, Zoom and other remote connectivity software that it is exciting to see that the software manufacturers are continuing to upgrade their products to make them even more capable as time goes.

One of Microsoft's flagship product's is Microsoft Teams and they have added the ability to use breakout rooms in their software. Here's an article on how to use that new feature.

Sophos Managed Threat Response (MTR)

We have added Sophos Managed Threat Response to our Premium Security Package and it has been working out great for everyone that has had us install it for them. What is included in this package. We start with our base package which includes Patch Management, Asset Management, Remote Access/Support and Intercept X Advanced as your AV Protection Software. With the addition of the MTR Service you also get:

•  24/7 Lead-Driven Threat Hunting - Confirmed malicious artifacts or activity (strong signals) are automatically blocked or terminated, freeing up threat hunters to conduct lead-driven threat hunts. This type of threat hunt involves the aggregation and investigation of causal and adjacent events (weak signals) to discover new Indicators of Attack (IoA) and Indicators of Compromise (IoC) that previously could not be detected.
• Adversarial Detections - Most successful attacks rely on the execution of a process that can appear legitimate to monitoring tools. Using proprietary investigation techniques, our team determines the difference between legitimate behavior and the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) used by attackers.
• Security Health Check - Keep your Sophos Central products, beginning with Intercept X Advanced with EDR, operating at peak performance with proactive examinations of your operating conditions and recommended configuration improvements.
• Activity Reporting - Summaries of case activities enable prioritization and communication, so your team knows what threats were detected and what response actions were taken within each reporting period.
• 24/7 Leadless Threat Hunting
• Applying data science, threat intelligence, and the intuition of veteran threat hunters, we combine your company profile, high-value assets, and high-risk users to anticipate attacker behavior and identify new Indicators of Attack (IoA).
• Dedicated Threat Response Lead - When an incident is confirmed, a dedicated threat response lead is provided to directly collaborate with your on-premises resources (internal team or external partner) until the active threat is neutralized.
• Direct Call-In Support - Your team has direct call-in access to our security operations center (SOC). Our MTR Operations Team is available around-the-clock and backed by support teams spanning 26 locations worldwide.
• Enhanced Telemetry - Threat investigations are supplemented with telemetry from other Sophos Central products, extending beyond the endpoint to provide a full picture of adversary activities.
• Proactive Posture Improvement - Proactively improve your security posture and harden your defenses with prescriptive guidance for addressing configuration and architecture weaknesses that diminish your overall security capabilities.
• Asset Discovery - For both managed and unmanaged assets, we provide valuable insights during impact assessments, threat hunts, and as part of proactive posture improvement recommendations.

This is an amazing amount of support that becomes available at a very affordable cost. Call our Sales team to find out how you can take advantage of this great product  line up.

Naked Security Topic: Phishing tricks that really work – and how to avoid them

We are seeing quite a few more Phishing Scams the past couple of months and some of them are really hard to tell if they are the real thing or just another SCAM!

This article in Naked Security from Sophos approaches this discussion from a different direction because it comes from some of the Phish Threat creators over at Sophos. Take a look!

Bookbub

I posted an article Last Thursday discussing a site that provides discounted audio books has an alternative to audible.com. The site that introduced me to Chirp.com Is one that my wife loves called BookBub.  This site provides discounted Ebooks for most of the major ebook readers. You can read these on Kindles, IPad, Kobo, your smart phone, in other words any kind of eReader device. you will see recommendations for all kinds of books from up to the minute popular artists and blogs that you might find very interesting. There are so many different things available at the site it is well worth your taking a moment to take a walk.