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Microsoft recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023

Organizations need to protect their sensitive data including intellectual property, trade secrets, customer data, and personally identifiable information from both insiders and external cyber attackers. In fact, 80 percent of organizations experience more than one data breach in their lifetime.1 ... continue reading
Diagram showing the order of evaluation for network traffic with security admin rules and network security group rules.

Connect, secure, and simplify your network resources with Azure Virtual Network Manager

Enterprise-scale management and configuration of your network resources in Azure are key to keeping costs down, reducing operational overhead, and properly connecting and securing your network presence in the cloud. We are happy to announce Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM), your ... continue reading
Screenshot of Create rewrite set explaining values that need to be populated for Rewrite rule.

Exploring mTLS setup to send a client certificate to the backend and OCSP validation

In our previous blog we discussed what mutual transport layer security (mTLS) is and what some of its use cases are. In this blog I want to discuss two of those use cases. First, how to send client certificate to ... continue reading
Chart depicting the number of daily DDoS attacks throughout 2022.

2022 in review: DDoS attack trends and insights

As organizations strengthen their defenses and take a more proactive approach to protection, attackers are adapting their techniques and increasing the sophistication of their operations. Cybercrime continues to rise with the industrialization of the cybercrime economy providing cybercriminals with greater ... continue reading
Wired for Hybrid - Episode 3 - What's New in Azure Networking - February 2023 Edition

Wired for Hybrid – Episode 3 – What’s New in Azure Networking – February 2023 Edition

Azure Networking is the foundation of your infrastructure in Azure. So, we’re happy to bring you a monthly update on What’s new in Azure Networking. In this blog post, we’ll cover what is new with Azure Networking. Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic Azure ... continue reading
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Secure your application traffic with Application Gateway mTLS

I am happy to share that Azure Application Gateway now supports mutual transport layer security (mTLS) and online certificate status protocol (OCSP). This was one of the key questions from our customers as they were looking for more secure communication ... continue reading
Figure shows a diagram of a hub and spoke network setup where the spoke virtual network that contains three virtual machines is peered to the hub virtual network. Azure Firewall and NAT gateway are attached to the Azure Firewall Subnet in the hub virtual network. The diagram shows how traffic from the virtual machines in the spoke virtual network connect outbound to the internet through NAT gateway. Return and inbound traffic is sent through Azure Firewall before reaching the virtual machines in the spoke virtual network.

Scale Azure Firewall SNAT ports with NAT Gateway for large workloads

This post was co-authored by Suren Jamiyanaa, Product Manager II, Azure Networking. As large organizations across all industries expand their cloud business and operations, one core criteria for their cloud infrastructure is to make connections over the internet at scale ... continue reading
What's New in Azure Networking – January 2023 edition

What’s New in Azure Networking – January 2023 edition

Hello Folks, As @Michael mentioned last month Azure Networking is the foundation of your infrastructure in Azure. So, we’re happy to bring you a monthly update on What’s new in Azure Networking. In this blog post, we’ll cover what new with Azure ... continue reading
Azure Stack HCI: What's new for Software Defined Networking (SDN) with WAC v2211

Azure Stack HCI: What’s new for Software Defined Networking (SDN) with WAC v2211

A warm 2023 “Hello” to our Customers and Partners! Today is an exciting day as we share with each of you the extensive new features and improvements for SDN in Windows Admin Center 2211 (WAC)!  We cannot thank you enough ... continue reading
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December 2022 monthly security updates for Hyper-V servers impacts SCVMM SDN deployments

Monthly security updates (KB and KB 5021237) for Hyper-V hosts released on Dec 13th, 2022, have known issues that impacts SCVMM managed SDN (Software Defined Networking) deployments and this creates failures with new VM creation and virtual network assignment. Impacted scenarios: ... continue reading