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Do you remember that on release in Feb 2010, Azure was known as Windows Azure? It took four years before it was renamed to Microsoft Azure, to more accurately reflect that it wasn’t just for Windows workloads. This November, some ... continue reading

Welcome to the fifth episode of 'From the RoK to the Cloud' season two. In this series, Tom Hall chats with some amazing people from around the Microsoft universe, about anything to do with Windows Server. Today we welcome back ... continue reading

You may have already noticed this holiday shopping season feels different than those we’ve had before. Headlines about supply chain issues, worker shortages, costs rising—all while the pandemic continues to impact our lives. In my own inbox, I saw emails ... continue reading

Hello! I’m Sue Bohn, Microsoft Vice President of Program Management for Identity and Network Access. In today’s Voice of the Customer blog post, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Security Officer David Swits of MVP Health Care shares how Microsoft ... continue reading

Disconnected medical data sets are everywhere. Particularly in the imaging segment, the growth in the number of devices, data size, and types of data being captured is breaking the traditional systems for managing data on-premises. Many companies are turning to ... continue reading

Lately, I have been spending a lot of time working with Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) debugging some ways to deploy applications. Sometimes when troubleshooting a problem, it helps to have administrative access directly to the server. Finding solutions to avoid ... continue reading

In a recent Microsoft blog post, we documented technical guidance for organizations to protect themselves from the latest NOBELIUM activity that was found to target technology service providers, which are privileged in their downstream customer tenants, as a method to ... continue reading

Protecting sensitive data by putting the right security controls in place is of the utmost importance for every organization. This requires constantly evolving to satisfy standards and regulations that help protect data and combat threats. One of these standards is ... continue reading

“Continuing our Advancing Reliability blog series, which highlights key updates and initiatives related to improving the reliability of the Azure platform and services, today we turn our focus to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). We laid out the core availability ... continue reading

Over the past few months, we added several new capabilities to Azure Virtual WAN which customers can embrace to significantly simplify routing design and management in Azure, and secure traffic flows. Before we introduce these new capabilities, let us revisit ... continue reading

Introduction This is John Barbare and I am a Sr Customer Engineer at Microsoft focusing on all things in the Cybersecurity space. In this blog, I will be focusing on Mobile Devices in Non-Compliance status after applying a Security Update ... continue reading

We’re excited to invite our community of infosec analysts and engineers to the second annual InfoSec Jupyterthon taking place on December 2-3, 2021. This is an online event organized by our friends in the Open Threat Research Forge, together with folks from the  ... continue reading

The security stakes have never been higher and, consequently, the protection of endpoints as a key component of any extended detection and response (XDR) strategy has never been more critical—for organizations of all sizes. Microsoft is thrilled to be recognized ... continue reading

Every day, Microsoft is committed to maintaining comprehensive security for all across our interconnected global community. With that purpose in mind, we recently sponsored the 2021 Gartner Security and Risk Summit and 2021 Forester Security and Risk Forum, where we ... continue reading

Iranian threat actors are increasing attacks against IT services companies as a way to access their customers’ networks. This activity is notable because targeting third parties has the potential to exploit more sensitive organizations by taking advantage of trust and ... continue reading

This blog was co-authored by Angel Shimelish, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Azure for Operators. Across industries, organizations are venturing deeper into their digital transformation journeys every day, and the telco industry is no exception. Angel Shimelish recently sat down with ... continue reading

Continuing with our Azure VMware Solution (AVS) zero to hero video series, this week the next video releases! In this video, Shabaz Darr (@ShabazDarr) and I cover monitoring and operations for Azure VMware Solution, taking you from zero closer to ... continue reading

Instead of believing everything behind the corporate firewall is safe, the Zero Trust model assumes breach and verifies each request as though it originates from an uncontrolled network. Regardless of where the request originates or what resource it accesses, Zero ... continue reading

Today, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment that’s impacting many enterprise customers’ digital transformation needs. In this place where cloud meets the edge, compute meets mobile, and 5G trends continue to drive innovation—customer demand for advanced network capabilities is ... continue reading

Welcome to the fourth episode of 'From the RoK to the Cloud' season two. 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 ... continue reading

Semiconductors and microelectronics are some of the most important components in building cutting-edge capabilities for our national security and defense technologies, from satellites and radar to vehicles and communications equipment. Ensuring these components are developed with the utmost regard for ... continue reading

Sophisticated cyberattacks are on the rise, with email phishing as the most common attack vector. We’ve seen it all over the news with stories like Hafnium that targeted Exchange servers1 or the Nobelium attack against SolarWinds,2 which show just how ... continue reading

I love hearing my colleagues explain how they came to the industry because so many of their stories are unusual. I’m surprised how often I hear that people got into computer science by some fortuitous accident. Although he loved computers ... continue reading

Over the past year, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has observed a gradual evolution of the tools, techniques, and procedures employed by malicious network operators based in Iran. At CyberWarCon 2021, MSTIC analysts presented their analysis of these trends ... continue reading

Roberth Strand from Crayon joins April today to help us understand GitOps as an operation model - how does GitOps enable faster and more secure deployments - and where to go to learn more about it.Jump to:[01:45] What is GitOps[03:41] ... continue reading

It started with a tweet. Microsoft MVP Joe Stocker shared Alex Simon's article "Automate and manage Azure AD tasks at scale with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK", where Derrick Kimani (Microsoft Identity Division Program Manager) lays out the plan for ... continue reading

The Azure High-Performance Computing (HPC) solution enables experts in silicon design by providing them the infrastructure and tools for chip design, IP design, silicon manufacturing, and silicon supply chain. Creating cutting-edge technologies requires extreme amounts of compute power, and as ... continue reading

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Operating system reached the end of their support cycle on the 14th of January 2020. Because of this many organizations wanted to migrate away from these legacy operating systems. End-of-life operating systems ... continue reading

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. We’ve all seen it happen—an organization has all the top-notch security tools in place and still, they get breached. In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, ... continue reading

In human-operated ransomware attacks, threat actors use predictable methods to enter a device but eventually rely on hands-on-keyboard activities to move inside a network. To fortify our existing cloud-delivered automated protection against complex attacks like human-operated ransomware, we developed a ... continue reading