Aren’t we living residing in a world where almost everything is becoming connected, whether you are talking about the electrical grid, phone system, our cars, or the appliances that heat our home or chill our food? Internet of Things (IoT) continues to penetrate the industry, and so does the threat of paralysing cyber-attacks. It constantly hovers above our heads and we cannot overlook it.
Security professionals and security service workers are the ones answering the calls, scrambling onto airplanes, and staying by the customer’s side until their issues are resolved.
They are the one who has seen the customer's' issues from their point of view. They understand and empathize with these issues and know better than anyone.
Extending security to the Internet of Things
Microsoft is leveraging their expertise and advances in order to secure at the silicon level the billions of connected devices that will sit on the edge of the world’s computing network in the future.
With the help of their security researchers, they are applying for new advances by introducing security protection for the next generation of cloud and edge devices which will be powered by microcontroller units (MCUs). The sale of cloud-connected devices is close to 9 billion units being shipped every year. These tiny MCU chips will power everything from kitchen appliances and toys to industrial equipment on factory floors. This next wave of connected devices is increasingly intelligent and connected, improving daily life in countless ways, but if they’re not secure, they will make people, communities and countries vulnerable to attack in more ways than ever before.
Microsoft has developed a solution where they plan to introduce an entirely new class of MCUs with more than five times the power of legacy MCUs. They also plan to license the IP for these new MCUs royalty free to silicon manufacturers, removing barriers for silicon partners who want to develop and manufacture Azure Sphere chips.
Additionally, the Azure Sphere will bring to these new chips a new customized operating system built for IoT security. This new OS embodies a custom Linux kernel specially optimized for an IoT environment and revamped with security innovations pioneered in Windows to create a highly secured software environment.
Lastly, the Azure Sphere from Microsoft will also feature a turnkey cloud security service designed to guard every Azure Sphere device, including the ability to update and upgrade this security protection for a 10-year lifetime of the device. The new Azure Sphere will work alongside any cloud – private or proprietary, where customers can continue to use their existing data infrastructure while adopting Azure Sphere’s groundbreaking security for their devices.
Simplifying security through new cloud offerings
A wide range of customers today appreciate that the cloud is almost certainly more secure than on-premise environments. The result is that customers trust the security of their enterprise to either Microsoft or to the cloud service provider. To offer a better example, let’s say that a company wants to build a website using ASP.NET MVC. When they outsource their project to, say, an ASP.NET MVC web development company, an organization expects peace of mind and free time to focus on other issues rather than worrying about what code to write and how to program the website.
Similarly, when an organization takes the benefits of cloud based service providers, they expect the uptime, security, and latency issues should be handled by the cloud service provider.
One of the most time consuming and challenging work in security operations today is identifying and fixing threats before they spread. To beat this challenge, Microsoft has announced automated threat detection and remediation tools to help simplify and streamline this process. With Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) automated investigation and remediation capabilities, in the upcoming Windows 10 update, systems can automatically go from alert to investigation to remediation in a fraction of the time it used to take.
Conclusion
The big security challenges that we are facing today require bold ideas and bolder solutions. Whether it is about strengthening the products, using data to better identify and disrupt threats, or working with customers on their own cyber-resilience, Microsoft delivers world-class security to customers and its partners. Be it small-scale MVC web development services or enterprise level healthcare or financial services, Microsoft has committed to deliver high-end business oriented services.
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