Beginning Security with Microsoft Technologies: Protecting Office 365, Devices, and Data

© Vasantha Lakshmi 2019

V. LakshmiBeginning Security with Microsoft Technologieshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4853-9_1

1. Current State of Security

Vasantha Lakshmi¹ 

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Bangalore, India

 

In today’s world, it would be hard to find an organization that hasn’t been in the radius of a hacker or a user account that was never in the range of an attack. We have all seen reports of high-profile attacks and substantial financial losses for companies that were attacked. Bots have taken significant control of the Internet since their advent. These tireless bits of code can sift through the trillions of available Internet addresses, mark targets and execute penetration attempts and remote code and exploits, and compromise systems and add them to the bot ...