They’ve been a long time coming – the Azure Security White Paper collection. This isn’t just a white paper or two. This isn’t marketing stuff and fluff. This isn’t just click-this and click-that. This is the real deal – information you can use to understand what Azure has to offer when it comes to security….
Year: 2017
Azure TLS Certificate Changes
We know security is a top priority for you, and so is uptime of your applications. To give you additional assurance of the authenticity of Azure services, most Azure services get their SSL/TLS certificates from a known set of intermediate certificate authorities (CAs) that Microsoft operates. Microsoft publishes details of these CAs in its Certificate…
Azure Security Center Dashboard Updated
Good news on the Azure Security Center front! We’ve refreshed the dashboard to make it easier for you to: Identify new issues with your Azure Virtual Machines and PaaS services Find those issues easily using the New alerts & incidents tile Get to work fast with the ROI on investigations by using the Most attacked…
Security Update Guide ushers in a new era of Microsoft updates
What do you think is the most important thing you can do to help secure both your client and server deployments? If you said, “apply security updates as soon as possible” – then you guessed right. Updating your applications, operating systems and firmware must be job one. Play fast and loose with updates, and it…
Update to Azure Antimalware Extension for Cloud Services
Microsoft Azure has released the latest version (1.1.0.1) of the Azure Antimalware extension for Cloud Services (PaaS v1). This release includes support for Guest Agent Family 5+ and has Windows Server 2016 Operating System enabled with Defender by default. The new extension will only configure the policies in your Azure PaaS v1 nodes, as Defender…
NEW: Azure Platform as a Service (PaaS) Security Best Practices
Things have been super busy around here, and one of the victims of that flurry of activity is the blog. Let’s try to make it up to you by giving your some great news – we’ve published some new PaaS security best practices articles! Here’s what we have to far: Securing PaaS deployments Securing PaaS…
Experiencing a Real-World Security Investigation with OMS Security
Earlier this month, Tom Shinder wrote this article about the OMS Suite Experience Center. This is an amazing resource to learn more about OMS Security, experience the interface and get used to the dashboard. Now let’s move to the next level, let’s really perform a security investigation using the data available in this environment. Perform…
Get Hands-On Experience with OMS Security with OMS Suite Experience Center
We spend a lot of time talking about Azure Security Center here – and for good reason – Azure Security Center will help you secure your Azure IaaS and PaaS deployments. If you’re using Azure, you should be using Azure Security Center. With that said, Azure Security Center isn’t the only solution we have to…