Over the last two decades, the M365 service capabilities have developed rapidly and have evolved into a more complex version. In addition, the Security & Compliance Centre has rapidly expanded in response to the rising sophisticated attacks. Office 365 user numbers have reached approximately a whopping 345 million," broadly aligning with the 17% y-o-y increase in commercial revenue.
Despite the tight security services provided by Microsoft, we know how frequently SMEs' Office 365 is breached, either intentionally by hackers or inadvertently by carelessness. In such a scenario, it makes us wonder, can we fully trust Microsoft to protect us from mal actors in 2022?? The simple answer is yes. The complicated answer is: Microsoft is as secure as WE configure it. Does that make you uneasy?
In 2005, a new market emerged when Gartner coined the term "SIEM" OR Security and Information Event Management. Back then, it was a legacy system aggregating event data produced by security devices, systems, network infrastructures and applications. However, it lacked monitoring functionality and was limited to vertical scalability.