Expanding cloud services: Microsoft launches its sustainable datacenter region in Arizona
Today we are launching our newest sustainable datacenter region in Arizona, known as “West US 3.” Datacenters are today’s engine for modern business, providing organizations of all sizes the cloud services and tools to innovate, collaborate, and operate securely and ... continue reading
Expanding cloud services: Microsoft launches its sustainable datacenter region in Arizona
Today we are launching our newest sustainable datacenter region in Arizona, known as “West US 3.” Datacenters are today’s engine for modern business, providing organizations of all sizes the cloud services and tools to innovate, collaborate, and operate securely and ... continue reading
How-To: Automated Company-Wide IP Blocking via Azure Firewall and Azure Functions
Summary One of the top 10 Azure consuming companies has multiple country government-mandated requirements to block egress to and ingress from IP addresses and IP address ranges on a dynamic embargoed/sanctioned IP list. In other words, various country governments across ... continue reading
STIGing Made Easy – Microsoft Endpoint Manager
Introduction This is John Barbare and I am a Sr Customer Engineer at Microsoft focusing on all things in the Cybersecurity space. With my large customer base in the Microsoft Federal space and having to comply with internal security baselines ... continue reading
Faking DDNS with Azure Services
Hello folks, Since the beginning of the pandemic, we’ve all been mostly stuck to our home offices. And since I’ve been concentrating of the hybrid services that Azure can provide I setup a simulated on-prem environment at home with left-over ... continue reading
Breaking down NOBELIUM’s latest early-stage toolset
As we reported in earlier blog posts, the threat actor NOBELIUM recently intensified an email-based attack that it has been operating and evolving since early 2021. We continue to monitor this active attack and intend to post additional details as ... continue reading
New sophisticated email-based attack from NOBELIUM
Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) has uncovered a wide-scale malicious email campaign operated by NOBELIUM, the threat actor behind the attacks against SolarWinds, the SUNBURST backdoor, TEARDROP malware, GoldMax malware, and other related components. The campaign, initially observed and tracked ... continue reading
Becoming resilient by understanding cybersecurity risks: Part 4—navigating current threats
In part three of this blog series on aligning security with business objectives and risk, we explored what it takes for security leaders to shift from looking at their mission as purely defending against technical attacks, to one that focuses ... continue reading
New identity partnerships and integrations to accelerate your Zero Trust journey
This month, our team is busy participating in several industry events – the RSA Conference, Gartner IAM and Microsoft Build – and sharing the new partnerships and integrations we’ve developed to help support your Zero Trust strategy. Reflecting on last ... continue reading
New Azure AD Capabilities for Conditional Access and Azure VMs at RSA 2021
Howdy folks! We’re excited to be joining you virtually at RSA Conference 2021 next week. Security has become top-of-mind for everyone, and Identity has become central to organizations’ Zero Trust approach. Customers increasingly rely on Azure Active Directory (AD) Conditional ... continue reading
