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Microsoft must stop selling security as a premium offering


In a perfect world, Microsoft would take security seriously again. It would be transparent about breaches.

Other customers try to get around going all E5 by cobbling together a bunch of a la carte security and compliance pieces and adding them to less expensive Microsoft 365 E3 or Office 365 E3 subscriptions. OAuth, a protocol for authorizing applications, was a key component used by Midnight Blizzard to attack Microsoft in 2023. Will Microsoft bend further and make security core to more of its cloud subscriptions to help lessen the impact of attacks, not to mention bad publicity?

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