Microsoft processes 24 trillion signals every 24 hours, and we have blocked billions of attacks in the last year alone. Microsoft Security tracks more than 35 unique ransomware families and 250 unique threat actors across observed nation-state, ransomware, and criminal ... continue reading

Windows Hello for Business (WHfB) provides a password-less experience for users to log into their Windows 10 or 11 device. However, a challenge remains when accessing remote systems. This can be via MMC console for example to access Active Directory ... continue reading

This blog post has been co-authored by Isabelle Morris, Program Manager, Azure Networking As organizations move their mission-critical workloads to the cloud, connecting to virtual machines (VMs) directly over the public internet is becoming more of a security risk. The ... continue reading

The internet is now part of the network. That might sound like hyperbole, but the massive shift to hybrid and remote work and a multicloud environment means security teams must now defend their entire online ecosystem. Recent ransomware attacks against ... continue reading

Starting today, Azure Load Balancer enables customers to manage port forwarding for Virtual Machine Scale Sets or a group of virtual machines in a backend pool with a single set-up with minimum management overhead. What is port forwarding? Port forwarding ... continue reading

In recent weeks, Microsoft Security teams have been actively tracking a large-scale social engineering and extortion campaign against multiple organizations with some seeing evidence of destructive elements. As this campaign has accelerated, our teams have been focused on detection, customer ... continue reading

To help protect the United States from increasingly sophisticated cyber threats, the White House issued Executive Order (EO) 14028 on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, which requires US Federal Government organizations to take action to strengthen national cybersecurity.1 Section 3 of ... continue reading

Microsoft released Azure Bastion as a way to connect with a remote session into a virtual machine (VM) on Microsoft Azure, without needing to have the VM’s RDP port available on the internet. Now you can keep port 3389 closed ... continue reading

Developers are more and more creating applications on containers, and guess what? It’s still up to us – ITPros – to troubleshoot anything that happens in production. Containers are not VMs, so where to even start, you might ask. We’ll ... continue reading

Microsoft recently announced a new feature that will help customers move existing applications to Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – Group Managed Service Accounts (gMSA). In a nutshell, gMSA allows applications that are Active Directory (AD) dependent to be containerized. By ... continue reading