Microsoft to Defend Democracy in 31 new countries with AccountGuard expansion

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In order to protect the Microsoft accounts involved in US political campaigns, political committees, campaign tech vendors, and their staff, in 2018 Microsoft introduced a service called AccountGuard which offers additional security and threat monitoring. Microsoft is now expanding AccountGuard service to 31 countries.

ACCOUNTGUARD ELIGIBLE COUNTRIES

AccountGuard is now available in:

■ Argentina – Español

■ Australia – English

■ Canada – English

■ Canada – Français

■ Hrvatska – Hrvatski

■ Cyprus (Greek)

■ Denmark – Dansk

■ Eesti – Eesti

■ European Union – English

■ Suomi – Suomi

■ France – Français

■ Deutschland – Deutsch

■ Greece

■ India – English

■ Ireland – English

■ Latvija – Latviešu

■ Lietuva – Lietuvi?

■ Malta – English

■ New Zealand – English

■ Polska – Polski

■ Portugal – Português

■ România – Român?

■ Slovensko – Sloven?ina

■ Slovenia – English

■ Korea

■ España – Español

■ Sverige – Svenska

■ Schweiz – Deutsch

■ United Kingdom – English</a

■ United States – English

■ Uruguay – Español

AccountGuard service offers the following:

■ Best practices and security guidance specific to those in the political space.

■ Access to cybersecurity webinars and workshops.

■ Notification in the event of a verifiable threat or compromise by a known nation-state actor against the participant’s O365 account.

■ Notification to both the organization and, where possible, the impacted individual if a registered Hotmail.com or Outlook.com account associated with the organization is verifiably threatened or compromised by a known nation-state actor.

■ Recommendations to the participating organization for remediation if a compromise is confirmed.

■ Enhanced identity protection features including Azure Active Directory P2 trial licenses and Yubico security keys .

■ A direct line to Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program team.

YUBICO SECURITY KEY ACOUNTGUARD PARTNERSHIP

Microsoft is also partnering with Yubico to provide as many as 25,000 phishing-resistant hardware security keys to AccountGuard customers. As of today, all existing and new Microsoft AccountGuard customers will have access to a limited number of free YubiKeys, depending on the organization size, to be used on compatible computers and mobile devices.

Learn more about this program at Microsoft here.

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