Gone Phishing Tournament™ Takeaways

by Contributed | Apr 8, 2024 | Technology

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Microsoft partnered with Fortra’s Terranova Security in October 2023 once again to kick off the annual Gone Phishing Tournament. The Gone Phishing Tournament (GPT) is an annual online phishing initiative that uses real-world simulations to establish accurate phishing clickthrough rates and additional benchmarking statistics for user behaviors. This helps organizations strengthen their security awareness training programs with accurate phishing benchmarking data.

In this blog, we would like to share the key takeaways from this report and provide insights on what it means to improve organizational resilience against phishing and social engineering attacks with tools like Attack Simulation and Training.

You can visit and download the full report here: Gone Phishing Tournament | Terranova Security

Overview of the Report:

With nearly 300 organizations across 142 different countries that participated in the 2023 tournament, there were over 1.37 million users who received the event’s phishing simulation email. This was an exciting 10% year over year increase of participants and provided a strong look into benchmarking status across many industries.

Gone Phishing Tournament Outcome

Phishing is one of the most common and effective cyberattacks that target individuals and organizations.

Overall click rates from this year’s GPT was at 10.4% with 6.5% of the recipients also submitted their credentials.

What this means is that 3 out of every 5 users who clicked on the phishing email link did not recognize the phishing attempt and submitted their credentials.

This suggests that continual phishing awareness education is incredibly important to protect your organization. With new AI and LLM technology, bad actors can set up attacks and create credible looking phishing messages at an even faster rate than previously.

While we continue to develop technical safeguards such as better phishing message detection, it’s important to recognize that humans are still the last line of defense between bad actors and the security of your organization. It is absolutely vital to an organization’s security to continue to educate their employees to enforce awareness and security.

To put it into perspective, if this phishing simulation was a real attack, almost 90,000 passwords could have been collected from the participating organizations. This data could have been used for nefarious purposes like Account takeover, Business email compromise, and Credential stuffing attacks.

What’s next?

It is important to take a security-first culture within your organization. Leverage your simulation and awareness programs to set realistic goals, use engaging training content, develop ongoing training programs, regularly assess and refine your security strategy, and foster a company-wide culture of security awareness.

In this changing landscape of cybersecurity and threats, mitigating the human risk factor and strengthening your organization’s resilience against social engineering is more important than ever. Phishing simulations can help individuals continue to stay vigilant against these threats.

We hope to continue to work with our customers and partners to further invest in user education and security program that matches different organizational needs. Attack Simulation and Training, part of Defender for Office Plan 2, helps organizations train their end users with realistic phishing simulations and security training.

Attack Simulation and Training is an intelligent phish risk reduction tool that measures behavior change and automates deployment of an integrated security awareness training program across an organization. It is available with Microsoft 365 E5 or Microsoft Defender for Office 365 P2 plan. 

Learn more:

To learn more about Microsoft Security solutions, visit our website. Bookmark the security blog to keep up with our expert coverage on security matters. Also, follow us at @MSFTSecurity for the latest news and updates on cybersecurity.

VS Code Day Skills Challenge

by Contributed | Apr 7, 2024 | Technology

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By completing the 11 modules in this challenge you will be able to earn a badge in your Microsoft Learn profile! Stay tuned for more information on social media and on this blog – we’ll share more about this #VSCodeDay’s events!

 

IMPORTANT!: Your badge will be added to your Microsoft Learn profile within 1 week of the challenge end date.

 

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• When does this challenge start and end? It starts on April 24, 2024 and ends on May 17, 2024.


• How much experience do I need? Just basic programming skills.


• How much time should I dedicate to it per day? It is designed for you to learn according to your needs and available time, remember that you have to complete it by May 17.


• Prerequisites: None.


• Is there a cost to participate in this challenge? There is no cost

 

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Get ready to find out what’s new in VS Code with our livestream series! It will be full of tips, tricks, and practical exercises to help you with your personal and professional projects. Whether you’re just starting out or looking to improve your skills, this is a must-see event for anyone interested in programming.

 

To register for all these #VSCodeDay sessions, visit here: (aka.ms/VSCodeDay)! It starts on April 24 from 11 am to 6 pm (GMT-6)*.

 

Live session	Speaker(s)	Social Media
Keynote: View Source: What gets into VS Code and why	Burke Holland	@burkeholland
JavaScript developers: Build fast and have fun with VS Code and Azure AI CLI	Natalia Venditto	@anfibiacreativa
Generating Synthetic Datasets with GitHub Copilot	Alfredo Deza	Alfredo Deza on LinkedIn
Real-World Development with VS Code and C#	Scott Hanselman + Leslie Richardson	@shanselman +@lyrichardson01
Building a RAG-powered AI chat app with Python and VS Code	Pamela Fox	@pamelafox
Beyond the Editor: Tips to get the Most out of GitHub Copilot	Kedasha Kerr	@itsthatladydev
LangChain Examples with Azure OpenAI Service + VS Code	Rishab Kumar	@rishabincloud
AI Made Clear: Practical AI Coding Sessions in VS Code	Bruno Capuano	@elbruno
Asking Copilot about your workspace	Matt Bierner	@mattbierner

 

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If you’ve used VS Code before, please let us know in the comments about your experience: your favorite extensions, your favorite sessions during the livestreams, and even if it’s the first time you’ve heard about VS Code!

 

 

 We’d love to hear your favorite/funny stories from the times you’ve coded in VS Code!

 

 Tag us on social media using the following hashtag: #VSCodeDayCSC

 

Evento Gratuito: Global AI Bootcamp 2024 – Rio de Janeiro

by Contributed | Apr 5, 2024 | Technology

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O Global AI Bootcamp é um evento gratuito e anual que é realizada em diferentes cidades espalhadas pelo mundo inteiro com o intuito de promover, ensinar e discutir sobre:

• Inteligência Artificial


• OpenAI


• Azure OpenAI


• LLM’s


• LangChain


• RAG


• Chatbots


• E, muito mais!

O evento é organizado pela comunidade Global AI Community e é realizado em parceria com diversas empresas e organizações locais. E, gostaria de trazer aqui uma grande novidade à toda Comunidade Técnica do Rio de Janeiro!

Em 2024, o Global AI Bootcamp será realizado no Rio de Janeiro! E, será um evento presencial e gratuito. Contará com:

• Palestras


• Workshops


• Laboratórios


• Debates

Ementa do Evento

Vamos agora falar um pouco sobre o que será abordado no evento:

Agenda

• 09:00 – Keynote – Global AI Bootcamp (Abertura)


• 09:05 – Main Talk – Glaucia Lemos: Como Fazer uma Aplicação com Copilot e IA Generativa?


• 10:05 – Coffee Break


• 10:30 – Workshop 1 Rafael Cruz – Staff Engineer no Itaú: Iteragindo com os modelos da OpenAI


• 11:40 – Break


• 13:00 – Painel – Desmistificando a área de Inteligência Artificial no mundo da Tecnologia –
  
  
  
  • Pablo Lopes – Developer Advocate em .NET e A.I na Microsoft
  
  
  • Glaucia Lemos – Developer Advocate em JavaScript/TypeScript e A.I na Microsoft
  
  
  • Fabricio Veronez – Proprietário da Formação DevOps Pro
  
  
  • Claudio Bonel – Professor, Pesquisador e Especialista em Ciência de Dados, IA e BI
  
  
  • Professores da Ibmec Barra da Tijuca
  
  
  
  


• 14:00- Finalização

Local do Evento

O evento será realizado na Faculdade Ibmec da Barra da Tijuca, localizada na Avenida Armando Lombardi, 940 – Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro – RJ.

Então, vamos resumir as informações:

• Data: 19 de Abril de 2024


• Horário: 09:00 às 14:00


• Local: Faculdade Ibmec da Barra da Tijuca


• Endereço: Avenida Armando Lombardi, 940 – Barra da Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro – RJ

Inscrições

As inscrições para o evento já estão abertas e as vagas são limitadas. Então, clique na imagem abaixo e garanta já a sua vaga!

As inscrições pelo site oficial do evento é extremamente importante para àqueles que participarão. Pois se você decidir fazer um dos workshops que serão administrados, será gerado uma chave para fazer uso dos recursos da OpenAI de graça!

Material de Apoio para quem já se inscreveu!

Se você já se inscreveu no evento, acessem agora mesmo o material de apoio. Pois, será muito importante para ajudar a vocês a se prepararem para o evento:

• Fundamentos da IA Generativa


• Fundamentos do Azure OpenAI Service


• Conceitos básicos da IA Generativa Responsável

Conclusão

A área de Inteligência Artificial é uma das áreas que mais estão em grande ascensão no mercado de tecnologia nos dias de hoje. E, eventos como o Global AI Bootcamp são essenciais para aprendermos e discutirmos sobre essas novas tecnologias e seus impactos em nossas vidas, seja pessoal e principalmente profissional!

Assim sendo, não percam a oportunidade de participar desse grande evento que será realizado no Rio de Janeiro em 2024. E, espero encontrar vocês por lá!

Até a próxima! 

¡Registrate al reto del VS Code Day!

by Contributed | Apr 5, 2024 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

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¡Regístrate al VS Code Day Skills Challenge! Ya sea que estes comenzando o buscando cambiar tu carrera, este programa está diseñado para que conozcas VS Code y GitHub Copilot en diferentes áreas profesionales como Ciencia de Datos, Inteligencia Artificial y Desarrollo Web. Con lecciones fáciles de seguir, ejercicios prácticos y talleres en vivo, aprende las novedades en VS Code. ¡Regístrate ahora y descubre el mundo de oportunidades que te ofrece VS Code en: https://aka.ms/VSCodeDayChallenge!

VS Code Day es nuestro evento anual en el cual aprenderás a mejorar tu proceso de programación con las novedades y grandes características de VS Code! Este año, estamos muy emocionados ya que tendremos sesiones enfocadas en la Inteligencia Artificial y escucharás al equipo de VS Code y a expertos de la industria hablar sobre temas como GitHub Copilot, la creación e implementación de aplicaciones de IA generativa en la nube, la mejora de la experiencia de programación en C# y ¡mucho más! 

Si estás empezando en el mundo de programación o si eres un programador con experiencia, ¡acompáñanos este 24 de abril de 2024 para conocer más sobre este super editor de código gratuito que te permite programar cualquier cosa! 

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Al completar los 11 módulos de este reto, podrás obtener un reconocimiento (badge) digital en tu perfil de Microsoft Learn por haber finalizado esta experiencia. ¡Mantente al tanto de más información en redes sociales y en este blog – te compartiremos más sobre los eventos de este #VSCodeDay!

NOTA IMPORTANTE: Tu reconocimiento (badge) digital se agregará a tu perfil de Microsoft Learn en el plazo de 1 semana a partir de la fecha de finalización del desafío. ¡Descubre en este tutorial como puedes compartir tus badges en LinkedIn!

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• ¿Cuándo inicia y finaliza este reto? Inicia el 24 de abril 2024 y finaliza el 17 de mayo del 2024.


• ¿Cuánta experiencia necesito? Solo conocimientos básicos de programación.


• ¿Cuánto tiempo debo dedicarle al día? Está diseñado para que vayas aprendiendo conforme a tus necesidades y tiempo disponible, recuerda que tienes que completarlo hasta el 17 de mayo.


• Prerrequisitos: Ninguno.


• ¿Tiene costo alguno? No tiene costo

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¡Prepárate para conocer las novedades de VS Code con nuestra serie de charlas y talleres en vivo! Estarán llenas de consejos, trucos y ejercicios prácticos para ayudarles con sus proyectos personales y profesionales. Ya sea que estas comenzando o buscando mejorar tus habilidades, este es un evento imperdible para cualquier persona interesada en programación.

¡Para registrarte a todas estas charlas del #VSCodeDay ingresa a la siguiente página web (aka.ms/VSCodeDay)! Inicia el 24 de Abril desde las 11 am hasta las 6 pm (GMT-6)*.

*Horario Ciudad de México

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Si anteriormente has utilizado VS Code, por favor, cuéntanos en los comentarios tu experiencia: tus extensiones favoritas, que te han parecido las charlas del evento e incluso si es la primera vez que has escuchado sobre VS Code!

¡Nos fascinaría escuchar tus historias o anécdotas favoritas/divertidas de las veces que has programado en VS Code!

 Etiquétanos en redes sociales usando el siguiente hashtag: #VSCodeDayCSC 

HLS Copilot Workflows

by Contributed | Apr 4, 2024 | Technology

This article is contributed. See the original author and article here.

Healthcare and Life Sciences (HLS) is a demanding and complex field that requires constant innovation, collaboration, and communication. HLS professionals often have to deal with large amounts of data, information, and documentation, which can be overwhelming and time-consuming. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic has added more pressure and stress to the already challenging work environment, leading to increased risks of burnout and mental fatigue.

How can HLS professionals cope with these challenges and improve their productivity and well-being? One possible solution is to leverage the power of AI and use Copilot, a tool that helps you write better code faster. Copilot is a smart assistant that can assist with email overload, summarize information from various sources, generate documentation, and more. Copilot also integrates with other applications like Teams, Word, Outlook, and more, creating a seamless workflow that can enhance your efficiency and creativity.

Check out the ever-growing repository of Use case workflow leveraging the power of Copilot.

 * Note: all examples are demonstrations for educational purposes only and not intended to be used as production. No warranty or support is stated or implied.

Provider Examples:

• Using Copilot to Catch Up and Get Started with Work – Microsoft Community Hub 

Payor Examples:

Pharma Examples

Medical Devices Examples: