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Paian IT Solutions and Corent Technology create a transactable presence for cloud optimization services on Microsoft's Azure Marketplace. Paian's vision is to reach the entire Azure customer base across the region, offering PASOS - Paian's Azure Spend and Optimization services.
The expansion delivers Saviynt's identity governance, privileged access, and access risk analytics capabilities to organizations as a managed service through Deloitte's Digital Identity+ Platform, bringing together Saviynt's innovative technology and Deloitte's deep experience in providing strategic business solutions. The Saviynt Enterprise Identity Cloud platform helps modernize identity and governance administration, secures access across multi-cloud environments, governs third-party access, enforces cloud privileged access management, and automates user lifecycle management with predictive analytics.
Skybox Security announced accelerated global expansion to meet increasing market demand for its Security Posture Management Platform, which includes its Vulnerability Management solution. Driven by customer demand to improve security efficacy and reduce exposure risk across hybrid cloud and critical infrastructure, Skybox Security increased new subscription customers by 86% in the first half of 2021.
In a support document, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 11 will get all updates currently offered to Windows 10, including Patch Tuesday, optional preview, OOB, and more. There will be one change to the update cadence: Windows 11 will be updated once a year with new features, and that feature update will be released in the second half of the year.
An official stock photo of Windows 11 has accidentally leaked the upcoming redesign of the Microsoft Paint application. Microsoft Paint was introduced with the first release of Windows in 1985, and while it is not the most advanced tool, it has become a fixture of the operating system.
Last week, a new open-source Registry Editor was released that puts Windows Regedit software to shame by supporting a host of advanced features, making editing the Registry easier than ever. If you are a Windows administrator or power user, then you have likely made changes to the Registry at one point using Windows built-in Registry Editor to fix a bug or tweak a configuration setting.
The Russian hackers behind the massive SolarWinds cyberespionage campaign broke into the email accounts of some of the most prominent federal prosecutors' offices around the country last year, the Justice Department said. The department said 80% of Microsoft email accounts used by employees in the four U.S. attorney offices in New York were breached.
Microsoft has announced that the Web Application Firewall bot protection feature has reached general availability on Azure Application Gateway starting this week. Azure Web Application Firewall is a cloud-native service designed to protect customers' web applications from bot attacks, common exploits, as well as common web vulnerabilities, including cross-site scripting, SQL injection, broken auth, security misconfigurations, and more.
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Dynatrace announced customers can extend Smartscape, the Dynatrace platform's real-time and continuously updated topology, to bring Dynatrace's powerful AIOps and analytics capabilities to more open-source services, including OpenTelemetry, FluentD, and Prometheus. As a result, DevOps and SRE teams can easily curate and analyze data streams from any source, at scale.