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Microsoft reveals what it looks for in employees
Be an overt learner, not overly learned. What you need to know Microsoft's head of global talent acquisition, Lauren Gardner, spoke to CNBC Make It regarding what she and her company look for in potential employees. She emphasized the…
What you need to know
Microsoft's head of global talent acquisition, Lauren Gardner, spoke to CNBC Make It regarding what she and her company look for in potential employees.
She emphasized the importance of being a learner and being able to illustrate that in a resume.
She also noted that applicants who illustrate they've pigeon-holed themselves don't look the best in an application stack.
Microsoft wants one thing above all else in its employees: A willingness to learn.
At least, that's the takeaway from CNBC Make It's recent chat with Microsoft's head of global talent acquisition, Lauren Gardner. She outlined what both herself and Redmond as a whole look for in prospective employees. It turns out that the key to impressing the home of Windows 11 is having a learner mindset. If you show a history of volunteering for new responsibilities, attempting to diversify your skills, and always being eager to work with new people, you'll look go...
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SOC Incident Playbook: Vulnerability Remediation & Verification
title: Detect Exploitation - Microsoft reveals what it looks for in employees
id: 0d17780e-2914-4858-b3b9-487744828365
status: experimental
description: Automatisch generierte SIEM-Erkennungsregel basierend auf CTI Intelligence
references:
- https://tsecurity.de/
author: iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine
date: 2026-09-27
logsource:
category: network_connection
product: any
detection:
selection:
CommandLine|contains:
- 'exploit'
condition: selection
falsepositives:
- Legitime administrative Zugriffe oder Penetrationstests
level: high
tags:
- attack.initial_accessrule CTI_Threat_Indicator {
meta:
author = "iShareStuff CTI Automated Detection Engine"
date = "2026-09-27"
description = "YARA Signature for "
strings:
$str = "Microsoft reveals what it look" ascii wide
condition:
any of them
}index=security sourcetype IN ("cisco:asa", "pan:traffic", "zeek_conn", "suricata", "WinEventLog:Security")
("Microsoft reveals what it looks for in e")
| stats count earliest(_time) as first_seen latest(_time) as last_seen by src_ip, dest_ip, dest_host, signature
| eval first_seen=strftime(first_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"), last_seen=strftime(last_seen, "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S")
| sort - countmessage: "*Microsoft reveals what it looks for in e*"CommonSecurityLog
| where Message has "Microsoft reveals what it looks for in e"
| summarize EventCount = count(), FirstSeen = min(TimeGenerated), LastSeen = max(TimeGenerated) by SourceIP, DestinationIP, DestinationPort, Activity
| extend DetectionRule = "iShareStuff-CTI-Compiled"
| sort by EventCount desc2. Cyber Threat Intelligence & Forensik
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