Senior employees, those who can access the most critical data and applications, will soon benefit from stronger protection in Microsoft Defender for Office 365. Priority Account Protection, currently in public preview, enables security teams to install protection mechanisms Defense for the most important accounts. While threat actors sometimes continue to cast their net, they are increasingly focusing on the targets that offer the highest rewards. They are usually C-suite executives who have access to the most sensitive and therefore most valuable data. Earlier this year, for example, it was revealed that Russian state-backed hackers appeared to be targeting specific individuals as part of an airport Wi-Fi hack. “In response to the changing realities of this increasingly sophisticated and targeted threat landscape, organizations need differentiated protection for their most visible and targeted employees,” said Girish Chander, group program manager. partner and product manager at Microsoft Defender for Office 365. "These are often the members of the C-suite who regularly deal with confidential and secret information and who have the added advantage (from an attacker's point of view) of being highly visible and searchable. However, the people in the C-suite are not the only ones who can be attacked. Quite often, users lower in the organizational hierarchy have access to critical information and tools. And these users are also main objectives. "