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Appeared on: Monday, September 24, 2018
Microsoft Focuses on Security and Brings AI to the Masses at Ignite 2018

Microsoft unveiled a raft of product updates and new services in security, artificial intelligence and other areas as the company tries to sustain the growth of its Azure cloud and Office software businesses.

Among them are Microsoft Secure Score, a dynamic report card that assesses Microsoft 365 customer environments and makes recommendations that can reduce breaches up to thirtyfold, and Microsoft Authenticator, which helps make secure sign-on easier for workers with features like password-free login. The company also advanced its commitment to democratize access to AI through a new AI for Humanitarian Action program aimed at harnessing the power of AI for disaster recovery, helping children, protecting refugees and displaced people, and promoting respect for human rights.

Microsoft also announced an agreement on common data standards with Adobe Systems Inc. and SAP SE, that will allow business to move clients' data around among platforms. The partnership, called the Open Data Initiative, aims to put the customer "back in control of their own data," Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella said.

Cybersecurity is the central challenge of the digital age

At Microsoft, more than 3,500 full-time security professionals work with AI tools to analyze more than 6.5 trillion global signals each day. The company's global security infrastructure protects customers by securing datacenters, running a Cyber Defense Operations Center, hacking its own defenses (red-teaming), hunting down attackers, and blocking more than 5 billion distinct malware threats each month. Also, Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit, focused on advanced disruption and deterrence, has worked with global law enforcement agencies to take down 18 criminal bot-nets and rescue nearly 500 million devices from secret bot-net control.

Microsoft is using the cloud to secure organizations broadly with new security features in its products that protect against a wide range of threats:

Since the establishment of the Cybersecurity Tech Accord, an agreement to bring the entire technology sector together in defending customers everywhere from malicious attacks by cybercriminal enterprises and nation-states, the group has nearly doubled in size. With 27 new organizations joining from around the globe since its launch, including Panasonic, Swisscom and Rockwell Automation, to name a few, the total number of signatories is now 61 companies, strengthening the broad ecosystem needed to keep the world secure.

Data and AI transform the intelligent enterprise

Furthering the company's commitment to democratizing access to AI and ensuring that the benefits are widely shared, the company today launched AI for Humanitarian Action, a new $40-million, five-year program aimed at harnessing the power of AI to aid efforts such as disaster recovery, protecting children, refugees, and displaced people, and promoting respect for human rights. The company will do this by working with select nongovernmental and humanitarian organizations through grants, investment of technology and shared expertise. This is the third program in Microsoft's AI for Good initiative, launched in July 2017.

Microsoft is also continuing to deliver AI-infused products and services that will be available to billions of people through the next generation of applications, experiences and personal assistants. Today, Microsoft announced new products and services to help enterprises get the most value from their data:

Microsoft also unveiled new AI experiences in Microsoft 365:

Capturing value from IoT and edge computing

Microsoft is delivering IoT and edge solutions that unlock new opportunities for its customers to bring cloud intelligence to new scenarios and to areas where connectivity is unreliable:

SAP, Microsoft and Adobe data alliance

In related news, SAP, Microsoft and Adobe said they were forming a data alliance that will make it easier for clients running their applications to get a better overview of the customer.

The partners announced the Open Data Initiative at a Microsoft conference in Orlando, Florida, saying it would help break down information silos that make it hard for businesses to make the most of their customer base.

"The core focus of the Open Data Initiative is to eliminate data silos and enable a single view of the customer, helping companies to better govern their data and support privacy and security initiatives," the three said in a joint statement.

The initiative will enhance interoperability and data exchange between their platforms - Adobe Experience Cloud and Adobe Experience Platform, Microsoft Dynamics 365 and SAP C/4HANA and S/4HANA - through a common model, the partners said.



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