Hello Folks! If you have ever wrestled with Azure Files inside a storage account, juggling shared RBAC, shared networking, and shared IOPS across a pile of shares that really should not live together, this session is going to address all that. During Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Vincent Du and Will Gries (both Product Managers […]
In this article Microsoft Threat Intelligence recently uncovered a methodical, sophisticated, and multi-layered attack, where a threat actor we track as Storm-2949 launched a relentless campaign with a singular focus: to exfiltrate as much sensitive data from a target organization’s high-value assets as possible. The attack exfiltrated data from Microsoft 365 applications, file-hosting services, and
How Storm-2949 turned a compromised identity into a cloud-wide breach Continue Reading
A Complete Feature & Security Catalog with JSON IaC Examples (Windows Server 2025 Edition) Azure Virtual Machines are one of the most powerful and flexible compute services in Microsoft Azure. Whether you’re deploying enterprise workloads, building scalable application servers, or experimenting with the latest OS releases like Windows Server 2025, Azure VMs give you full
In this article Introduction Relationships and dependencies between Entra ID, Billing Accounts and Subscriptions Identity and Roles Billing Account and Subscription Creation Summary In cloud governance, the relationships between Entra ID, Billing Accounts, Subscriptions, and User Permissions are frequently misunderstood even by experienced practitioners. Many organizations assume these components form a simple hierarchy or that
Microsoft Azure is announcing the start of Phase 2 multifactor authentication enforcement at the Azure Resource Manager layer, starting October 1, 2025. As cyberattacks become increasingly frequent, sophisticated, and damaging, safeguarding your digital assets has never been more critical, and at Microsoft, your security is our top priority. Microsoft research shows that multifactor authentication (MFA) can
Azure mandatory multifactor authentication: Phase 2 starting in October 2025 Continue Reading
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has observed financially motivated threat actor Storm-0501 continuously evolving their campaigns to achieve sharpened focus on cloud-based tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). While the threat actor has been known for targeting hybrid cloud environments, their primary objective has shifted from deploying on-premises endpoint ransomware to using cloud-based ransomware tactics. Unlike traditional on-premises
Storm-0501’s evolving techniques lead to cloud-based ransomware Continue Reading
A few days ago, I wanted to understand which REST API version was being used behind each PowerShell command I was running to create Azure SQL Database servers. To investigate, I picked a simple command: Get-AzSqlServer -ResourceGroupName “ResourceGroupName” -ServerName “servername”. Remember that Get-AzSqlServer cmdlet is a PowerShell wrapper over the Azure REST API for the
Azure Files NFS v4.1 is a fully managed, enterprise-grade solution purpose-built to run high-performance Linux workloads in the cloud with native NFS semantics and full POSIX compatibility. Azure Files delivers fully managed SMB and NFS file storage with built-in high availability and durability. It eliminates the need to provision or manage file servers, enabling seamless
To get started, you must have a CloudCasa account profile at https://cloudcasa.io. First, add a new cloud account to CloudCasa. Follow these steps: Select the Configuration > Cloud Accounts menu, then select Add Cloud Account. In the Add Cloud Account menu, select Microsoft Azure as the cloud account service. Select the Deploy to Azure link. The Create ARM Template (Azure Resource Manager) wizard appears. Select Deploy to Azure.
AKS Arc on Azure Local CloudCasa backup and restore integration Continue Reading
The Microsoft Secure Future Initiative (SFI) stands as the largest cybersecurity engineering project in history and most extensive effort of its kind at Microsoft. Since inception, we’ve dedicated the equivalent of 34,000 engineers working full-time for 11 months to mitigate risks and address the highest priority security tasks. Now, we are sharing the second SFI
