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Piyush Tripathi The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the importance of rapid and reliable communication technology. One vital application is in contact tracing efforts, where prompt notifications can make a significant difference. This guide focuses on utilizing PowerShell in conjunction with … Continue Reading

Hi folks – welcome to the second post in the holiday ’23 series. Today’s post is about a capability that came to preview long ago but recently surprised much of the world and moved to General Availability (GA). This allows you … Continue Reading

Cloud cybersecurity is of paramount importance in today’s digital landscape, as organizations increasingly rely on cloud services to store and manage sensitive data, applications, and infrastructure. Attacks on cloud infrastructure pose severe risks to organizations such as data theft, ransomware … Continue Reading

In this article Microsoft Global Network  Default Public Access Service Endpoints Private Link Internet Routing Preference Azure Services and the solutions you deploy into Azure are connected to the Microsoft global wide-area network also known as the Microsoft Global Network … Continue Reading

Hey everybody, Ryan Ries here with a quick heads-up that there is some hot-off-the-presses content you need to check out if you’re interested in Windows Server and Active Directory. And if you’re reading this, I know you are. First, we … Continue Reading

Heya folks, Ned here again. The Microsoft Ignite 2023 session “What’s new in Windows Server vNext” is now up if you weren’t able to attend in person. It covers many of the new features coming to Windows Server including Active Directory, File … Continue Reading

Happy Holidays folks!  I had a wild-hair idea to write one short blog post, per day, for 12 days along the theme of the “Twelve Days of Christmas” song.  I made the mistake of mentioning the idea to one Arnab … Continue Reading

If you are looking for a way to onboard Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) with Terraform, you are in luck! In this blog post, we will introduce you to a new Terraform module that simplifies and enhances the onboarding experience … Continue Reading

In cloud security domain, we often need to monitor entities – such as users, IP addresses, applications, or access tokens – and their patterns of behavior. We might want to detect ‘novelties’ – unexpected and previously unseen values of these … Continue Reading

Microsoft Entra ID Governance offers the capability to manage the access lifecycle of resources through access packages, which are organized into catalogs and define the resources available within them. Each access package includes at least one policy that outlines who … Continue Reading

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a supply chain attack by the North Korea-based threat actor Diamond Sleet (ZINC) involving a malicious variant of an application developed by CyberLink Corp., a software company that develops multimedia software products. This malicious file … Continue Reading

Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a multicloud application protection platform (CNAPP) designed to protect your cloud-based applications from code-to-cloud. A key component of cloud security is continuously monitoring and managing new vulnerabilities across your cloud workloads. Vulnerability management helps organizations … Continue Reading

Introduction In the dynamic landscape of software development, developers across diverse organizations are embracing a wide variety of Source Code Management (SCM) and CI/CD pipeline systems to optimize their workloads. While this trend presents flexibility, collaboration, and speed to software … Continue Reading

At Microsoft, we are continually advancing our tools to empower users in making data-driven and informed decisions. Our latest advancement in Microsoft Sentinel is the introduction of Enrichment Widgets. Widgets provide critical enrichment data, delivering key insights often encapsulated in … Continue Reading

Microsoft has observed ongoing activity from mobile banking trojan campaigns targeting users in India with social media messages designed to steal users’ information for financial fraud. Using social media platforms like WhatsApp and Telegram, attackers are sending messages designed to … Continue Reading

Automating tasks is the core of PowerShell scripting. Adding artificial intelligence into the mix takes automation to a whole new level. Today, we’ll simplify the process of connecting to OpenAI’s powerful text summarization API from PowerShell. Let’s turn complex AI … Continue Reading

Hi All!  Jerry Devore back again with another hardening Active Directory topic.  Before we jump into the technical stuff, I would like to briefly share some tips for structuring a protocol hardening project.  I picked up these suggestions from working … Continue Reading

Introducing a Unified Security Operations Platform with Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDRSecurity teams are tasked with more responsibilities than ever before, and the complexity of today’s security tooling landscape doesn’t make their job any easier. They need to sift through … Continue Reading

We’re thrilled to share that the unified APIs that are part of the Microsoft Graph are now generally available! These APIs come with a single endpoint, permissions, auth model, and access token. The Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (Defender TI) API … Continue Reading

We are excited to announce the public preview of Liveness Detection, an addition to the existing Azure AI Face API service. Facial recognition technology has been a longstanding method for verifying a user’s identity in device and online account login … Continue Reading

Custom Translator has been a key translation enabler capability in Azure AI Translator for almost a decade, with customers across industries such as transportation, healthcare and financial services using it to develop custom translator models. Custom Translator launched the Neural … Continue Reading

For years, developers around the world have relied on pre-built AI capabilities offered through Azure AI Language, ranging from analyzing sentiment, extracting information, mining opinions and much more. Such pre-built capabilities have accelerated AI building efforts for enterprises looking to … Continue Reading

Today at Microsoft Ignite, we are super excited to announce a number of new capabilities for Azure AI Speech! This article provides a summary of all the new and recent releases.We also recently released improved pricing for some of our … Continue Reading

Today’s cybersecurity challenges mandate that security teams invest more in high-quality threat intelligence to understand the mechanics of sophisticated attacks led by cybercriminals, nation-state actors, and others. With the introduction of Microsoft Security Copilot, security professionals can use Generative AI … Continue Reading

Today, we are thrilled to announce that we are unleashing the power of threat intelligence to all Microsoft Defender XDR tenants. Starting at Microsoft Ignite, all Defender XDR users will see Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) in the threat intelligence … Continue Reading

Organizations are challenged with managing multicloud security due to the complexity of coordinating security measures across diverse cloud environments, each with its unique configurations and vulnerabilities. Visibility across cloud environments can be limited, making it challenging to effectively triage issues … Continue Reading

Microsoft is thrilled to unveil the Azure AI Vision Video Retrieval preview. This innovative feature revolutionizes video search, enabling the exploration of thousands of hours of video content through advanced multi-modal vector indexing of vision and speech. Further enhancing the … Continue Reading

By Jacky Kang, Eric Sun, Jing Pan, Yuhui Wang, Mark Hillebrand, Padma Varadharajan, Fei ZuoWe’re thrilled to announce a groundbreaking feature in our real-time speech modeling—Bilingual Speech Modeling. This innovation is a game-changer, as our speech model now seamlessly supports bilingual language … Continue Reading

We are happy to announce the General Availability of Model Training with Serverless Compute. Serverless compute is a fully-managed, on-demand compute target for a simplified way of running training jobs in Azure Machine Learning. Through serverless compute, machine learning (ML) professionals … Continue Reading

OverviewAzure AI Studio is a versatile and user-friendly platform designed to cater to the diverse needs of developers, data scientists, and machine learning experts. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools and services, making the journey from concept to evaluation … Continue Reading