Security
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6. Azure App Service: Ensuring Security and Compliance for Your Web Applications
In today’s fast-paced digital world, building and deploying web applications has become more accessible than ever. However, ensuring the security and compliance of these applications is a critical challenge faced by organizations and developers alike. Azure App Service is an excellent solution that offers robust security features and adheres to strict compliance standards, giving you…
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Stay ahead of attacks with Azure Security Center
Now more than ever, organizations need to reduce costs, keep up with compliance requirements, all while managing risks in this constantly evolving landscape. Source…
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New Azure maps make identifying local compliance options easy
Countries around the world are placing more compliance requirements on organizations of all types, and customers want to more easily understand which compliance offerings are available in their… Source…
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Monitor your Azure workload compliance with Azure Security Benchmark
The Azure Security Benchmark v1 was released in January 2020 and is being used by organizations to manage their security and compliance policies for their Azure workloads. Source…
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Announcing Azure Front Door Rules Engine in preview
Starting today, customers of Azure Front Door (AFD) can take advantage of new rules to further customize their AFD behavior to best meet the needs of their customers. Source…
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Azure Security Center enhancements
At Microsoft Ignite 2019, we announced the preview of more than 15 new features. This blog provides an update for the features that are now generally available to our customers. As the world comes together to combat COVID-19, and remote work becomes a critical capability for many companies, it’s extremely important to maintain the security…
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Detect large-scale cryptocurrency mining attack against Kubernetes clusters
Azure Security Center's threat protection enables you to detect and prevent threats across a wide variety of services from Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer to Platform as a Service (PaaS) resources in Azure, such as IoT, App Service, and on-premises virtual machines. At Ignite 2019 we announced new threat protection capabilities to counter sophisticated threats…
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Keeping your cloud deployments secure during challenging times
As the world comes together to combat COVID-19, and remote work becomes a critical capability for many companies, customers have asked us how to best maintain the security posture of their cloud assets while enabling more remote workers to access them. Misconfiguration of cloud security controls has been at the root of several recent data…
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Fileless attack detection for Linux in preview
This blog post was co-authored by Aditya Joshi, Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise Protection and Detection. Attackers are increasingly employing stealthier methods to avoid detection. Fileless attacks exploit software vulnerabilities, inject malicious payloads into benign system processes, and hide in memory. These techniques minimize or eliminate traces of malware on disk, and greatly reduce the chances…
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New Azure Firewall certification and features in Q1 CY2020
This post was co-authored by Suren Jamiyanaa, Program Manager, Azure Networking We continue to be amazed by the adoption, interest, positive feedback, and the breadth of use cases customers are finding for our service. Today, we are excited to share several new Azure Firewall capabilities based on your top feedback items: ICSA Labs Corporate Firewall…
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Azure Firewall Manager now supports virtual networks
This post was co-authored by Yair Tor, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. Last November we introduced Microsoft Azure Firewall Manager preview for Azure Firewall policy and route management in secured virtual hubs. This also included integration with key Security as a Service partners, Zscaler, iboss, and soon Check Point. These partners support branch to internet…
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10 recommendations for cloud privacy and security with Ponemon research
Today we’re pleased to publish Data Protection and Privacy Compliance in the Cloud: Privacy Concerns Are Not Slowing the Adoption of Cloud Services, but Challenges Remain, original research sponsored by Microsoft and independently conducted by the Ponemon Institute. The report concludes with a list of 10 recommended steps that organizations can take to address cloud privacy…
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HTTPS changes coming
Google chrome will label all HTTP sites as insecure as of 23rd July once Chrome updates (v.68) have gone out. This means any user that navigates to your site will receive a notification saying the site is ‘NOT SECURE’. Why; This is a step closer to ensuring were all using a secure and trusted internet.…