We know many of you are now working fully remotely and depending on SCOM more than ever to ensure critical systems remain stable and available to end-users. So we are pleased to let you know that our friends at SquaredUp, ... continue reading

Accelerate classified missions with unparalleled connectivity, high availability, and resiliency across three regions with more than 35 services Azure Government Secret recently achieved Provisional Authorization (PA) at Department of Defense Impact Level 6 (IL6) and Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 503 ... continue reading

Do you know all the software your company uses? The software supply chain can be complex and opaque. It’s comprised of software that businesses use to run operations, such as customer relationship management (CRM), enterprise resource planning (ERP), and project ... continue reading

When we published our first blog about the Microsoft Detection and Response Team (DART) in March of 2019, we described our mission as responding to compromises and helping our customers become cyber-resilient. In pursuit of this mission we had already ... continue reading

Human-operated ransomware campaigns pose a significant and growing threat to businesses and represent one of the most impactful trends in cyberattacks today. In these hands-on-keyboard attacks, which are different from auto-spreading ransomware like WannaCry or NotPetya, adversaries employ credential theft ... continue reading

Connectivity has gone through a fundamental shift as more workloads and services have moved to the Cloud. Traditional enterprise Wide Area Networks (WAN) have been fixed in nature, without the ability to dynamically scale to meet modern customer demands. For ... continue reading

Burst encoding in the cloud with Azure and Media Excel HERO platform. Content creation has never been as in demand as it is today. Both professional and user-generated content has increased exponentially over the past years. This puts a lot ... continue reading

First published on TECHNET on Mar 13, 2011 Background On December 1, 2010 the Federal PKI Management Authority (FPKIMA), in compliance with NIST guidance , created a new SHA-256 Federal Common Policy root certification authority. Windows Update will include the ... continue reading

When I did my first North American Electric Reliability Corporation—Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) compliance project it was 2009. NERC CIP was at version 3. It was the first mandatory cybersecurity standard that the utility I was working for had ... continue reading

The challenge and benefit of technology today is that it’s entirely global in nature. This reality is brought into focus when companies assess their supply chains, and look for ways to identify, assess, and manage risks across the supply chain ... continue reading