'Really high number' could be fixed by using multi-factor authentication
Microsoft reckons 0.5 per cent of Azure Active Directory accounts as used by Office 365 are compromised every month.
The Window giant's director of identity security, Alex Weinert, and IT identity and access program manager Lee Walker revealed the figures at the RSA conference last month in San Francisco.
"About a half of a per cent of the enterprise accounts on our system will be compromised every month, which is a really high number. If you have an organisation of 10,000 users, 50 will be compromised each month," said Weinert.
It is an astonishing and disturbing figure. Account compromise means that a malicious actor or script has some access to internal resources, though the degree of compromise is not stated. The ..
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