Nearly three quarters of Microsoft 365 and Azure AD customers experience account takeovers: Vendor report

May 20 2021

A new survey of Microsoft customers found that 71 percent reported experiencing malicious takeovers of legitimate Microsoft accounts an average of seven times over the last year. And thirty percent of the organizations experienced an account takeover every month.

The findings come from cybersecurity solutions firm Vectra AI and their newest report (behind a registration form) on threat detection for Microsoft Azure AD and Microsoft Office 365, based on threats Vectra detected in its customer's accounts.

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Before joining MSDynamicsWorld.com, Eamon was editor for SearchNetworking.com at TechTarget, where he covered networking technology, IoT, and cybersecurity. He is also the author of multiple books and previously contributed to publications such as the Boston Globe, Milford Daily News, and DefenceWeb.

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