By default, there are over 30 recommendations pertaining to database resources spread across Azure, AWS, and GCP. Quite often, the Cloud Security Admin who is spending time in Defender for Cloud isn’t the person responsible for the configuration or remediation of a database resource. If your Database Administrators are swamped with work (highly likely), the …
Better Together = Defender CSPM + Database Protections Continue Reading
Cloud cybersecurity is of paramount importance in today’s digital landscape, as organizations increasingly rely on cloud services to store and manage sensitive data, applications, and infrastructure. Attacks on cloud infrastructure pose severe risks to organizations such as data theft, ransomware attacks, crypto mining attacks, and service disruption. During a cyber-attack, after gaining initial access to …
Defender for cloud’s Agentless secret scanning for virtual machines is now generally available! Continue Reading
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a multicloud application protection platform (CNAPP) designed to protect your cloud-based applications from code-to-cloud. A key component of cloud security is continuously monitoring and managing new vulnerabilities across your cloud workloads. Vulnerability management helps organizations improve their security posture, reduce the attack surface, and prevent security breaches. We are thrilled …
Defender for Cloud unified Vulnerability Assessment powered by Defender Vulnerability Management Continue Reading
We are happy to announce the General Availability of Model Training with Serverless Compute. Serverless compute is a fully-managed, on-demand compute target for a simplified way of running training jobs in Azure Machine Learning. Through serverless compute, machine learning (ML) professionals can focus on their expertise in building ML models, rather than learning about compute infrastructure. …
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Hello, it has been a while since I have posted any articles, but my little buddy Raven (my miniature schnauzer) and I are here to talk about the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA). Raven has an old, worn-out bed that she has been using for years. It has lost its cushioning, doesn’t offer much comfort anymore, …
Azure empowers intelligent services like Microsoft Copilot, Bing, and Azure OpenAI Service that have captured our imagination in recent days. These services, facilitating various applications like Microsoft Office 365, chatbots, and search engines with generative AI, owe their magic to large language models (LLMs). While the latest LLMs are transcendental, bringing a generational change in …
Azure sets a scale record in large language model training Continue Reading
Introduction Organizations increasingly rely on cloud resources to power their infrastructure and deliver scalable services. However, the internet exposure of these resources introduces security challenges that must be addressed to protect sensitive data and mitigate potential breaches. Assessing the level of internet exposure of cloud resources, such as Virtual Machines (VMs), Storage Accounts, Containers, and …
Securing Cloud Resources: Assessing Internet Exposure for Enhanced Defense and Risk Management Continue Reading
Introduction Throughout recent years, the IT world has shifted its workloads, management layers, and machines to the cloud, thus introducing a new attack surface, accompanied by new attack vectors. The following introduced a tactic for threat actors to deploy their cyber-attacks against organizations’ cloud environments, gaining strong permissions, operating for financial gain, and more. Upon succeeding …
Microsoft Defender for Cloud latest protection against sophisticated abuse of Azure VM Extensions Continue Reading
Introduction In today’s fast-paced technological landscape, cloud integration and automation have ascended as twin pillars of modern business efficiency. Microsoft’s Azure and Power Automate are two titans in this arena, each offering a unique set of capabilities. But what if we could marry the vast cloud resources of Azure with the intuitive workflow automation of …
Calling Azure Resource APIs from Power Automate Using Graph Explorer Continue Reading
Microsoft Azure is constantly evolving to meet the needs of its growing user base. In response to the feedback and requirements of developers, we have announced a new SKU for Azure Bastion: Bastion Developer. This service, now in public preview, will be a game-changer for developers seeking secure, cost-effective, and hassle-free connectivity to their Azure …
