• Share Link copied to clipboard! • Content types Best practices Products and services Microsoft Defender Microsoft Security Experts Topics AI and agents Security management Security operations Today’s security leaders are operating in an environment of truncated cyberattack timelines with aging defenses built for slower, linear cyberthreats that can no longer keep pace with advanced cyberthreats. • AI-powered threat actors now use social engineering and malware that adapt in real time, allowing a single phishing message to escalate into a multidomain compromise within minutes. • In many organizations, however, the bigger challenge lies closer to home: Years of accumulated technical debt inside the security operations center (SOC) and best-of-breed security investments have left many teams grappling with stitched together siloed tools, each producing fragments of insight that analysts must manually piece together. • They’re also struggling with closing the skills gap and finding the right expertise. • The new e-book,Unlocking Microsoft Defender: A guide to autonomous defense and expert-led security, explores why this model has become unsustainable and how organizations can shift to a more integrated approach to modern defense.

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  • Microsoft is promoting a shift to “autonomous defense” for security operations centers (SOCs) that rely on its Defender XDR platform and Microsoft Security Experts. The new e‑book argues that traditional, siloed tools and manual triage can’t keep pace with fast‑moving, AI‑driven cyberattacks. It outlines how a unified, AI‑powered SOC can continuously correlate signals, automate routine responses, and free analysts for proactive hunting and resilience work. The guide also highlights the role of expert services in modernizing operations, closing skill gaps, and building cyber resilience through integrated, real‑time threat disruption.

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