Microsoft acquires CyberX to accelerate and secure customers’ IoT deployments

The Internet  Support.Microsoft.Com/Help of Things (IoT) is providing breakthrough value to businesses across every vertical,  Microsoft Customer Service from manufacturing, to energy, to agriculture, Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  to real estate, to healthcare and more.  IoT provides real-time insights into assets, enabling businesses Microsoft Support Phone Number to reduce operational expenses, unplanned downtime and unnecessary servicing Microsoft Support Phone Number. 

While the benefits of IoT are well established and significant, one of the biggest hurdles for customers is Microsoft Support Phone Number securing IoT devices  – both for new digitization initiatives as well as for legacy Operational Technology and industrial control  Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help system environments. Two years ago, Microsoft announced a $5 billion investment in IoT to further our commitment  Support.Microsoft.Com/Help to  build a trusted, easy-to-use platform Microsoft Customer Service for our customers and partners to build Microsoft Support Phone Number connected solutions – no matter where they are starting in their IoT journey.

Microsoft already provides Microsoft Support Phone Number multi-layer IoT security and IoT security monitoring in Azure, Microsoft Support Phone Number which is being used by thousands Support.Microsoft.Com/Help of customers in production and has made securely configuring IoT devices possible.  And while securely configuring IoT devices Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  is possible, our Microsoft Customer Service mission is to simplify IoT and make securing IoT devices easy.

Yet there are still challenges customers have that we seek to solve:

  1. Giving customers Microsoft Support Phone Number visibility into what IoT devices are already connected to their networks.
  2. Managing the security on existing IoT devices (referred to as “brownfield devices”) that have been historically difficult due to a myriad of custom Microsoft Customer Service protocols Support.Microsoft.Com/Help.

Today we are excited to share that Microsoft is acquiring CyberX to help solve these challenges. CyberX will complement Microsoft Support Phone Number the existing capabilities, and extends to existing devices including those used in industrial IoT, Operational Technology and infrastructure scenarios. With CyberX, customers can discover their existing IoT assets, and both Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  manage and improve the security posture of those devices. With CyberX, customers can see a digital map of thousands of devices across a factory floor or within a building and gather information Support.Microsoft.Com/Help about their asset profile and vulnerabilities. Gaining this visibility Microsoft Support Phone Number is not only critical for understanding where security risks may exist and then mitigating those risks, but it is also a fundamental step to securely enable smart Microsoft Customer Service manufacturing, smart grid and other digitization use cases across production facilities and the supply chain.

nd while Microsoft is adding CyberX to our Microsoft Customer Service security capabilities, our  Support.Microsoft.Com/Help in the ecosystem Microsoft Support Phone Number is more important than ever, with many of them providing on-the-ground Microsoft Support Phone Number expertise and integration services Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help .

We will continue to deliver more value to our customers as CyberX is further integrated with Microsoft’s broad portfolio Microsoft Customer Service of IoT security offerings in threat protection that span users, endpoints, applications, data and more.  For example, Http //Support.Microsoft.Com/Help  in conjunction with Microsoft’s cloud-native, next-generation security information and event management (SIEM)/security orchestration Microsoft Support Phone Number, automation  and response (SOAR) with built-in IoT security Microsoft Support Phone Number workload, SecOps personnel will be Support.Microsoft.Com/Help able to identify threats that span Operational Technology- and IT-converged networks that were previously challenging to detect.

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