Microsoft to stop locking vital security logs behind $57-per-user monthly plan

Who isn't hoarding threat data?

Taxpayers fund Gov data collections. About 0% of that is available for the public to protect itself. Meanwhile, Gov partners[1] and major campaign donors[2] get forever access to Gov firehoses.

1] https://www.cisa.gov/information-sharing-and-awareness

2] https://www.cfr.org/report/sharing-classified-cyber-threat-i...

Thought this was posted already, well, kind of, in different forms:

CISA announcement https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36802955

Microsoft blog https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36789086

I wonder if this means Business Basic plans will get more that 7 days of login logs. It’s really crappy when someone gets phished and you can only go back 7 days to check for suspicious logins.

Security features should never be locked behind a paywall. Good move by Microsoft, but why only now?

Because they just had a major breach and they're doing damage control.

Google are similar from what I remember of the Gsuite admin tools. The enterprise plan was required (I think) to see anything more useful than a count of how many files were shared externally.