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Enhancing security with Microsoft's Expanded Cloud Logs
Nation-state-sponsored hacking stories are everyone’s favorite Hollywood movies — until our personal or corporate sensitive data shows up on the dark web for sale, being compromised. In real life, cyber espionage groups’s activities trigger security enforcement. First in the government sector, then the government standards slowly shift industry norms starting by gently forcing vendors who are also selling into government contracts.
In the case of the recently announced playbook on MICROSOFT EXPANDED CLOUD LOGS IMPLEMENTATION PLAYBOOK, issued by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), it all started in July 2023, when the Chinese cyber espionage group Storm-0558 exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Outlook email system to gain unauthorized access to email accounts belonging to U.