Public Sector Cyber Defense: Skilling for the GenAI Era

Securing the future: A five-point blueprint to transform public sector cyber defense in the GenAI era

Career Essentials in Cybersecurity by Microsoft and LinkedIn

Discover the skills needed for a career in cybersecurity. Gain a solid understanding of commonly used cybersecurity terms. Explore the current threat landscape and learn the core concepts of cybersecurity.

Episode 67: Cyber, Communications and Collaboration in Defense: Insights from Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn (Ret.)

Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn (Ret.) is the former Commander of the US Defense Information Systems Agency. He joins guest host AT Ball to share his insights on establishing cyber as domain, the role of technology in collaboration and communication, and the importance of understanding the needs of those in the field.

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Microsoft’s Generative AI Cyber Defense Program for Public Sector

How Microsoft is partnering with public sector entities to implement an AI-centric cyber defense program that can protect their digital ecosystem and enable digital transformation.

Learning Resources for Security Operations Analyst

A security operations analyst works with others to secure information technology systems for their organization to protect, detect and defend against cyber-attacks. Explore this Learning Pathway that brings together resources for starting or advancing your skilling journey as a security operations analyst.

Episode 60: Leveling the Cybersecurity Playing Field with AI, Machine Learning and Cloud

Using artificial intelligence, machine learning, and cloud to address cybersecurity challenges in the Public Sector.

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Episode 59: Modernizing National Approaches to Cybersecurity

Sami Khoury is the Head of the Canadian Government’s Centre for Cyber Security. As Canada’s technical authority on cyber security, the team use their expertise to keep safe the information and systems that Canadians rely on, to protect and defend the country’s cyber assets and to lead Canada’s federal response to cybersecurity events.

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Episode 58: Cybersecurity in an AI-Driven Landscape

Cybersecurity stands at the forefront of global concerns, and recent advancements in generative AI have opened new avenues for both progress and peril. Guest host Alvaro Vitta and Tom Burt, Corporate Vice President of Customer Security and Trust at Microsoft, delve into the insights from the 2023 Microsoft Digital Defense Report.

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How to Modernize Your Public Sector Security Operations Center

Take the training and learn about the importance of modernizing security operations centers (SOC) in public sector organizations and the steps involved in SOC modernization.

Protect Your Government Organization from Cyber Threats

As governments expand their digital ecosystem and cyber threats increase and attacks become more sophisticated, it’s never been more important than it is right now to do everything in your power to protect your digital estate and that starts with having the ability to detect threats early.

Microsoft Azure Connected Learning Experience (CLX)

Register for this training program that sets a trajectory for aspiring learners and working professionals to be Azure experts. The CLX program offers a personalized journey that aims to optimize learning experience while maximizing return on time invested. The 4 Step Program is purposely driven to deliver exam readiness with a perspective and personalized learning journey, curated to meet every learner’s need.

Secure to the Core – Helping Public Safety & Justice agencies to address cybersecurity

Watch this webinar to learn about important actions public safety & justice organizations need to take to counter cybercrime.

Securing the Future of Education

Read the blog by Microsoft’s Worldwide Cybersecurity Lead for the Public Sector and Global CTO for Education and learn more about how important it is that as our schools adopt more technology, and cyber threats increase, it’s vital to implement critical safeguards to ensure our schools don’t fall victim to cyberattacks.

Welcome to the Future of Infrastructure

This year, The Future of Infrastructure is setting off on its own as a standalone podcast hosted on Microsoft’s Public Sector Center of Expertise. Learn more about this new podcast.

Cybersecurity and Student Safety in K12

Watch this webinar as technology leaders share their strategies for maintaining an effective balance of student safety, data privacy and cybersecurity in schools.

The Responsible Public Cloud

Read about Microsoft’s vision of the four fundamental building blocks of a responsible public cloud – inclusive economic opportunity, earning trust, protecting fundamental rights and building a sustainable future.

Microsoft for Defense and Intelligence: Secure the digital defense ecosystem and improve interoperability

Learn more about how to achieve the necessary level of interoperability while ensuring that your data is secure.

Driving a cloud-enabled defense posture

Join this webinar to learn how cloud technology can help empower militaries to innovate at speed, improve operations, and enhance national security.

Modernizing Cybersecurity in Public Finance Organizations

There are two major forces driving cyberattacks against Public Finance organizations – money and socio-political disruption. This blog details the potential effects of an attack on a Public Finance organization and what organizations can do now to protect themselves.

Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2023

The 2023 Microsoft Digital Defense Report shares unique insights on how the digital threat landscape is evolving and what crucial actions can be taken now.

Cyber Resiliency in Government: Key Actionable Insights from the 2022 Microsoft Digital Defense Report

Worldwide Public Sector Security Lead Alvaro Vitta breaks down the 2022 Microsoft Digital Defense Report as it relates to cyber resiliency and outlines four core pillars and actions that governments must take action now on to protect their digital ecosystems.

Episode 38: Cybersecurity, Compliance and Cloud: Lessons from Singapore

Yeo Beng Huay leads the Governance Planning and Policy Division in GovTech, Singapore. Her team plans and formulates policies, standards, and guidance for government ICT and smart systems, and provides data driven management of compliance and risks.

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Episode 37: Military Lessons on Cyberdefense

Dr. Marcus Thompson is a retired Major General and former Head of Information Warfare for the Australian Defense Force. On the second episode of our cybersecurity mini-series, Dr. Thompson talks with Alvaro Vitta about best practices for protecting sensitive data and why making risk-based decisions is so important.

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Accelerating Security Innovation for Governments with the Intelligent Cloud

Watch this Microsoft Ignite session and learn more about the needs and challenges in securing hybrid workspaces across government and how to enable secure collaboration across hybrid workspaces.

City of Saint John triumphs over ransomware attack with Bulletproof and Microsoft Security solutions

Learn how the City of Saint John in Canada came back stronger than ever before from a crippling ransomware attack with the help of a host of Microsoft Security solutions.

Defending Your Data

Learn how Microsoft responds to data protection, privacy, and residency requirements. Through a collection of learning modules, webpages and articles you will learn about: data protection and privacy, data classification, data residency, data governance and compliance, how to optimize government operations with Azure, and how Microsoft secures our own datacenters.

Secure Identities and Access

Learn about the important role that digital identity plays within your digital transformation journey. Through a collection of learning modules, webpages, articles, videos, and blogs you will learn about: secure identities, identity and access management, permissions management and decentralized identity.

Learn How to Implement Zero Trust in Your Public Sector Organization

As public sector entities continue to embark on their digital transformation and cyber threats continue to increase, having a Zero Trust security strategy is now more essential than ever before. In this collection, learn more about the importance of a Zero Trust strategy and how to implement it.

Defending Ukraine: Early Lessons from the Cyber War

This Microsoft report outlines five early lessons we can learn from the war in Ukraine and steps we need to take to ensure protection of democracy’s future.

RapidDeploy drives innovation in public safety with cloud-native mapping and analytics using Azure for US Government and Power BI

Learn how RapidDeploy partnered with Microsoft to build its cloud-native emergency response platform with high availability and cybersecurity in mind.

Finnish Tax Administration builds citizens’ trust with a more secure cloud platform

Learn how the Finnish Tax Administration is protecting the data of millions of citizens by implementing a new security strategy and promoting an organization-wide cultural shift away from the traditional security models.

Government of Nunavut comes back stronger after ransomware attack with Microsoft security solutions

Read how Microsoft’s elite cybersecurity DART team quickly helped the Government of Nunavut, Canada when a ransomware attack shut down computer systems.

Cyber security with Microsoft Sentinel at the forefront of regional ambition

Read how Salford City Council is keeping its digital infrastructure safe by creating a commercial security operations centre built on a public-sector-operated platform and Microsoft Sentinel.

Helping state and local government agencies address cyber security

Cyber-attacks against state and local governments are increasing and with the workforce moving to remote work, vulnerabilities that may have been more fully protected by corporate networks are more easily exploited. Learn how you can ensure quality service delivery, safeguard your data, protect your digital infrastructure, and ensure privacy and regulatory compliance.

Episode 36: Cyber Resilience in Government

Tom Burt is the Corporate Vice President of Customer Security and Trust at Microsoft. On the first episode of our Cybersecurity mini-series, Tom tells Alvaro Vitta about the trends he’s seeing, working with the government in Ukraine on cyber defense, and how public sector organizations can be better prepared for future attacks.

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Episode 30: Restricted data in the cloud

Rear Admiral António Gameiro Marques is the Director General of the Portuguese National Security Authority, which includes the National Cybersecurity Center.

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Episode 21: Cybersecurity – Protecting a global research university

Mary Ann Blair is the Chief Information Security Officer at Carnegie Mellon University. She is responsible for information security engineering and operations; incident prevention, detection, and response; policy and compliance; training and awareness; and identity and access management services.

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Episode 12: Taking defense and intelligence to the cloud edge

Mike Schrock is the Vice President of Global Alliances at Thales, leading work on technology initiatives involving the intersection between cloud technology, data security, public trust, digital payments, and society.

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