Microsoft Azure Active Directory again a “Leader” in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Access Management – We’re honored to place this well for the fourth time and believe it reflects the energy and passion we’ve put into partnering with our customers to help them successfully digital transform their businesses. That said, there’s lots more work to do, and we look forward to continuing to partner with you, our customers, to assure the products we build keep your organizations secure and productive. 

Demystifying Ransomware Attacks Against Microsoft Defender Solution – As you have known it, Ransomware is in aggravated assault mode at this time of year 2020, the joint cybersecurity advisory comes from the Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) have just given a serious warning about Ransomware Threat.

Continuously Export Secure Score for Over-Time Tracking and Reporting (Preview) – Using continuous export of secure score (preview), you can stream secure score changes in real-time to an Event Hub or a Log Analytics workspace. This will enable you to track secure score over time with dynamic reports, export secure score data to Azure Sentinel or other 3^rd party SIEM solutions, and integrate this data type with any internal processes you might already be using to monitor secure score in your organization.

IoT security: how Microsoft protects Azure Datacenters – Mike Czamara, a General Manager at Microsoft, leads a team dedicated to the critical environment and availability of Azure Datacenters worldwide. “We approach datacenters with a necessarily conservative methodology. There’s the shell and there’s the critical space,” he says. Mike describes the shell as the building, the walls, the roof, the electrical system, the mechanical systems; everything that functions around the critical spaces or in service of them.

Go inside the new Azure Defender for IoT including CyberX – In 2020, the move toward digital transformation and Industry 4.0 took on new urgency with manufacturing and other critical infrastructure sectors under pressure to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs. But the cybersecurity model for operational technology (OT) was already shown to be lacking before the pandemic.

Are your IaaS DC’s Secured in Azure ? – Today, we will be sharing some best practices to help ensure that your VMs (virtual machines) (including Domain Controllers) are secure in your Azure/Cloud environment.

Enriching DDoS Protection Alerts with Logic Apps – When Azure DDoS Protection Standard is enabled, the expectation is that any potential attack will be mitigated, and no additional response will be needed. However, like any security control, security teams often require visibility into the process of DDoS mitigation. For this reason, it is highly recommended that you enable diagnostic logging for Public IP Address resources to ensure valuable data is generated.