REPORT SERIES
cyberattack report series
Art Direction: Kristen Paff
Project Lead & Design: Paula Rolf
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This project involved leading design for Microsoft's series of 4 cyberattack reports over the course of a year, including accompanying blog graphics. Working within Microsoft's brand guidelines, the process involved close collaboration with stakeholders to develop concepts, incorporate feedback, and refine each deliverable to a polished, high-quality standard.
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Crafting a flexible template that can be easily adapted to accommodate changing content and evolving brand guidelines, and designing engaging, informational visual graphics based on the content provided.
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Leading design for a series of 4 cyberattack reports over the course of a year, including accompanying blog graphics. Developing concepts within existing brand guidelines, partnering with stakeholders on visual and technical graphics, and incorporating feedback through iterative revisions to ensure polished, high-quality final deliverables.
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Creating a visually engaging report that could serve as a template for future reports, while translating technical messaging into graphics that are easy to understand.
Cyberattack series No. 6—Retailers pay the price: Insight into recent cyberattacks
This timeline shows two attackers targeting retailers and the Microsoft DART team’s investigation into the attacks. It was important to show two concurrent timelines since the actions didn’t influence each other at this point in the attack.
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Cyberattack series No. 7—Imposter for hire: How fake people can gain very real access
This page shows the eight key tools and methods that Microsoft’s team used to investigate the threat proactively and comprehensively.
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Cyberattack series No. 8—Help on the line: How a Microsoft Teams call led to compromise
Microsoft’s DART team activated its containment and hardening capabilities. The first half of the page describes the response in detail while the bottom of the page has a callout with an icon story explaining how organizations can strengthen their detection and response.
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Cyberattack series No. 9—One intrusion, two cyberattackers: Uncovering parallel threats
This introduction provides an overview of the cyberattack and showing the main icon story that is repeated in the blog graphic. Below it is a linked table of contents so readers can jump to the section they want to read next.
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