Sophisticated cybersecurity threats demand collaborative, global response
Microsoft’s response to Solorigate Since December, the United States, its government, and other critical institutions including security firms have been addressing the world’s latest serious nation-state cyberattack, sometimes referred to as ‘Solorigate’ or ‘SUNBURST.’ As we shared earlier this is ... continue reading

New cloud-native breadth threat protection capabilities in Azure Defender
As the world adapts to working remotely, the threat landscape is constantly evolving, and security teams struggle to protect workloads with multiple solutions that are often not well integrated nor comprehensive enough. This results in serious threats avoiding detection, as ... continue reading
Securing a Windows Server VM in Azure
If you've built and managed Windows Servers in an on-premises environment, you may have a set of configuration steps as well as regular process and monitoring alerts, to ensure that server is as secure as possible. But if you run ... continue reading
MSIX – Using the Bulk Conversion Scripts
Hello everyone, this is Ingmar Oosterhoff, a Modern Workplace Customer Engineer at Microsoft. In an earlier series of posts we set up our environment to do batch sequencing using App-V. In this blog I will explain how we can set ... continue reading

Microsoft Security—detecting empires in the cloud
Microsoft consistently tracks the most advanced threat actors and evolving attack techniques. We use these findings to harden our products and platform and share them with the security community to help defenders everywhere better protect the planet. Recently, the Microsoft ... continue reading
Hello open source security! Managing risk with software composition analysis
When first learning to code many people start with a rudimentary “Hello World” program. Building the program teaches developers the basics of a language as they write the code required to display “Hello World” on a screen. As developers get ... continue reading

The next frontier in machine learning: driving responsible practices
Organizations around the world are gearing up for a future powered by artificial intelligence (AI). From supply chain systems to genomics, and from predictive maintenance to autonomous systems, every aspect of the transformation is making use of AI. This raises ... continue reading

Misconfigured Kubeflow workloads are a security risk
Azure Security Center (ASC) monitors and defends thousands of Kubernetes clusters running on top of AKS. Azure Security Center regularly searches for and research for new attack vectors against Kubernetes workloads. We recently published a blog post about a large ... continue reading

Azure Machine Learning—what’s new from Build 2020
Machine learning (ML) is gaining momentum across a number of industries and scenarios as enterprises look to drive innovation, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning empowers developers and data scientists with enterprise-grade capabilities to accelerate the ML ... continue reading
Build support for open source in your organization
Have you ever stared at the same lines of code for hours only to have a coworker identify a bug after just a quick glance? That’s the power of community! Open source software development is guided by the philosophy that ... continue reading