Microsoft has launched the preview of Azure Managed Grafana, a new managed service that lets customers run the popular open-source analytics visualization tool natively within the Azure cloud platform. According to Microsoft, organizations can use Grafana to bring together logs, traces, metrics and other disparate data from across an organization and visualize all its telemetry […]
Microsoft has announced the general availability of new response actions in Microsoft Defender for Identity for on-premises Active Directory accounts when an identity is compromised and simultaneously protect identities across cloud and on-premise environments. According to Microsoft, the core components of an identity security product should work to prevent malicious actions, detect them, investigate and […]
Microsoft announced a new U.S. government cloud environment: Office 365 Government Secret Cloud which is currently under review, pending accreditation with targeted availability starting mid-2022. The new Azure environment is built to support the U.S. Federal Civilian, Department of Defense, intelligence community and U.S. government partners working within the secret enclave. As workloads have shifted […]
Microsoft is releasing a new device in the Azure Stack Edge family, the Pro 2, a new short-depth, 2U server designed for deployment in edge locations such as retail and remote branch offices. According to Microsoft, the device is compact and comes with flexible mounting options and multiple configurations for organizations running edge workloads. Among […]
Microsoft Azure is now ahead of Amazon Web Services (AWS) in several areas, including the proportion of enterprises using the cloud service, according to a new report from IT management solution provider Flexera. In the company’s 2022 State of the Cloud Report, Flexera gives data on the enterprise cloud market, finding that Azure has surpassed […]
Microsoft is introducing a series of new capabilities in Azure Active Directory, including custom roles for delegated app management to help enable fine-grained authorization and simplify management at scale in Azure and Microsoft 365. According to a Tech Community blog, custom roles for delegated app management is now in general availability, enabling custom roles for […]
Microsoft now offers multi-cloud protection for the cloud industry’s top three platforms by extending the native capabilities for Microsoft Defender for Cloud to the Google Cloud Platform. This follows cloud security support for AWS in Defender for Cloud, which Microsoft released last November during its Ignite conference. According to Microsoft, Defender for Cloud support for […]
A new report from Cisco Talos, the IT vendor’s security research team, details how hackers are increasingly using public cloud services like Azure and AWS that eliminates the need to host their own infrastructure. Specifically, researchers narrowed in on a fall 2021 campaign that utilized variants of known remote access trojans that were deployed and […]
Every organization with internet-exposed workloads is vulnerable to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, especially those who are adopting cloud services in the wake of the pandemic. Bad actors will look for ways to take applications offline. The last week of August, Microsoft observed 2.4 terabits per second (Tbps) of DDoS attacks targeting Azure customers in Europe. […]
According to cybersecurity companies, media reports and Microsoft itself, threat actors are actively exploiting security flaws in Azure’s Open Management Infrastructure framework that Microsoft disclosed as part of this months’ cumulative security updates. The vulnerabilities are in the Open Management Infrastructure (OMI) framework, which Microsoft calls an open-source Web-Based Enterprise Management implementation for managing Linux […]
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