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Title: Microsoft to Defend Democracy in 31 new countries with AccountGuard expansion
Post by: javajolt on March 10, 2021, 02:33:21 PM
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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 (http://celalandingapp.azurewebsites.net/en-us/) 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 (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/es-ar/)

■ Australia – English (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/en-au/)

■ Canada – English (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/en-ca/)

■ Canada – Français (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/fr-ca/)

■ Hrvatska – Hrvatski (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/hr-hr/)

■ Cyprus (Greek) (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/el-cy/)

■ Denmark – Dansk (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/da-dk/)

■ Eesti – Eesti (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/et-ee/)

■ European Union – English (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/eu/)

■ Suomi – Suomi (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/fi-fi/)

■ France – Français (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/fr-fr/)

■ Deutschland – Deutsch (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/de-de/)

■ Greece (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/el-gr/)

■ India – English (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/en-in/)

■ Ireland – English (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/en-ie/)

■ Latvija – Latviešu (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/lv-lv/)

■ Lietuva – Lietuvi? (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/lt-lt/)

■ Malta – English (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/en-mt/)

■ New Zealand – English (http://Nederland – Nederlands

■ [url=http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/en-nz/)

■ Polska – Polski (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/pl-pl/)

■ Portugal – Português (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/pt-pt/)

■ România – Român? (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/ro-ro/)

■ Slovensko – Sloven?ina (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/sk-sk/)

■ Slovenia – English (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/en-si/)

■ Korea (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/ko-kr/)

■ España – Español (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/es-es/)

■ Sverige – Svenska (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/sv-se/)

■ Schweiz – Deutsch (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/de-ch/)

■ United Kingdom – English</a (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/en-gb/)

■ United States – English (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/en-us/)

■ Uruguay – Español (http://www.microsoftaccountguard.com/es-uy/)

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 (http://azure.microsoft.com/en-ca/pricing/details/active-directory/) trial licenses and Yubico security keys (http://www.yubico.com/?ag) .

■ A direct line to Microsoft’s Defending Democracy Program (http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/04/13/announcing-the-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 (http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2021/03/09/accountguard-expansion-high-risk-defending-democracy/).

source (http://mspoweruser.com/microsoft-account-guard-31-countries/)