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With data doubling every two years, it is more critical than ever to have simple and integrated tools to understand and manage risks to an organization. As more people work remotely, users collaborate and store data in different locations. These ... continue reading

Today, we celebrate international Data Privacy Day. This day reminds us of the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust. However, annual reminders are insufficient to drive material change, which can be seen in the effectiveness rates of ... continue reading

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. To improve an organization’s cybersecurity readiness, you need to test that your detection and prevention technologies work as intended and that your ... continue reading

The risk landscape for organizations has changed significantly in the past few years. Traditional ways of identifying and mitigating risks simply don’t work. While traditionally, organizations have focused on external threats, risks from within the organization are just as prevalent ... continue reading

We continue to innovate and add new capabilities to Azure Arc to enable new scenarios in hybrid and multicloud. We also want to provide our customers with the right guidance and best practices to adopt hybrid and multicloud technologies to ... continue reading

Hello folks I partnered with the product group and actual IT professionals outside of Microsoft to create a video series where we look at Azure Lighthouse and its benefits from a variety of different perspectives. If you’ve ever had to ... continue reading

We have recently uncovered a large-scale, multi-phase campaign that adds a novel technique to traditional phishing tactics by joining an attacker-operated device to an organization’s network to further propagate the campaign. We observed that the second stage of the campaign ... continue reading

Are you planning to design, deploy, manage an Azure Hybrid solution? Then you are happy to hear that we have created an Azure Stack HCI video playlist. This Azure Stack HCI playlist will give you access to the tutorials, best ... continue reading

If you have ever explored the differences between Active Directory (AD DS) and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), you would have found that Azure Active Directory doesn't support the Kerberos authentication protocol, but Active Directory does. Kerberos is used to ... continue reading

This blog post was co-authored by Anupam Vij, Principal PM Manager, and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking In the second half of 2021, the world experienced an unprecedented level of Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) activity in both complexity and ... continue reading

If you are running on-premises servers, chances are that you utilize a fraction of your overall server cores most of the time but are forced to over-provision to handle peak loads. Moving those workloads to the cloud can greatly reduce ... continue reading

Hello, dear readers! My name is Hélder Pinto, I am an Azure Infra Customer Engineer based in Portugal, working mostly with customers in Western Europe, and I am back here to share with you some useful tools to help you ... continue reading

Hello friends, Happy new year everyone! With the new year come new possibilities. Today I’m excited to announce two Azure AD External Identities updates including the public preview of multi-factor authentication (MFA) with time-based one-time passcode (time-based OTP) for B2C ... continue reading

Recently there’s been a number of users who have encountered a particular bug with PowerShellGet 1.0.0.1 in Windows PowerShell. This bug occurs when you try to to use a PowerShellGet cmdlet that is dependent on PackageManagement, including cmdlets such as ... continue reading

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest post of our Voice of the Community blog series, Microsoft Security Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks ... continue reading

Hello folks I partnered with the product group and actual IT professionals outside of Microsoft to create a video series where we look at Azure Lighthouse and its benefits from a variety of different perspectives. Have you thought about how ... continue reading

Welcome to ‘From the RoK to the Cloud'. In this series, Tom Hall chats with some amazing people from around the Microsoft universe, about anything to do with Windows Server. In today’s episode, were joined by Pierre Roman from the ... continue reading

Hello again! I’m Jeff Sakowicz, Principal Program Management Lead for Application Platform Security within the Microsoft Identity team. Our team’s goal is to foster a secure, trustworthy, and thriving app ecosystem. Part of achieving this goal is enabling apps to ... continue reading

As technology has evolved, so have the tools we can use to build (or rebuild!) standard, repeatable system configurations. I remember building my first Windows-based computer systems using an "answer file" to populate and bypass the "out of the box" ... continue reading

In the world we live in today, almost every announcement has the word “open” in it. Unfortunately, it feels like there are as many definitions of what “open” means as there are announcements mentioning it. Sometimes it means “we have ... continue reading

This blog post has been co-authored by Charlie Lagervik, Principal Program Manager. Consumers today demand flexibility and convenience in how they purchase everything from groceries to home goods. In addition to shopping online, they are increasingly using mobile devices and ... continue reading

Hi community, My name is Helmut Wagensonner. I’m a Customer Engineer at Microsoft and this blog should help you to understand, which Administrative Templates (admx) to choose for your Windows 11 / Windows 10 mixed environment. Remember how it was ... continue reading

Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has identified evidence of a destructive malware operation targeting multiple organizations in Ukraine. This malware first appeared on victim systems in Ukraine on January 13, 2022. Microsoft is aware of the ongoing geopolitical events in ... continue reading

The last 18 months have put unprecedented pressure on organizations to speed up their digital transformation as remote and hybrid work continue to become the new normal. Yet even with all the change and uncertainty, having the right security support ... continue reading

-----Update on Jan 13, 2022----- M365 V2 is GA which can be downloaded here. For users who are already on CTP, no further steps are needed. P.S: There is a known issue with “M365 Connection State Monitor” which is generating ... continue reading

In the last two years, we’ve seen a staggering increase in the adoption of cloud-based services, remote work solutions, bring your own device (BYOD), and IoT devices as organizations digitally transform themselves to enable a hybrid workforce.1 Zero Trust has ... continue reading

Welcome to ‘From the RoK to the Cloud'. In this series, Tom Hall chats with some amazing people from around the Microsoft universe, about anything to do with Windows Server. In today’s episode, were joined by Sven Langenfeld Senior Azure ... continue reading

Azure Container Apps is a container orchestration platform for deploying modern applications and microservices. With Azure Container Apps you can deploy your containerized apps without the need to take on the overhead of managing the infrastructure of the underlying systems ... continue reading

Each day cybersecurity attacks put organizations and customer data at risk, causing companies to think differently about how they manage data and the level of risk involved. Users want to know that their digital transactions will be both seamless and ... continue reading

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyber threats. In the latest Voice of the Community blog series post, Microsoft Security Product Marketing Manager Natalia Godyla talks with Jennifer ... continue reading