Expanding AccountGuard protections for high-risk customers in 31 democracies Today, we’re announcing the expansion of Microsoft’s enterprise-grade identity and access management protections to all AccountGuard members in 31 democracies at no additional cost. The addition of new features to AccountGuard provides new ways to protect online accounts for political parties, candidates and their staff, health care workers, human rights defenders, journalists and certain other customers who are at greatest risk from nation-state hackers. Last year, we announced availability of these identity and access management features to political campaigns and parties ahead of the 2020 U.S. presidential election. These identity protection offerings help ensure only authorized people can log on to an organization’s systems and make it more difficult for hackers to impersonate legitimate staff. Our pilot showed that organizations taking advantage of these tools saw an 18% improvement in their Microsoft Identity Protection Security Score. Security Score is an automated assessment of an organization’s ability to withstand security threats. Based on this successful feedback, we are extending this offering to all eligible AccountGuard customers including human rights organizations, newsrooms and health care organizations in the 31 democracies where AccountGuard is available.