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Unisys announced ClearPath MCP Software Series for Microsoft Azure the first availability of its flagship software environment in the public cloud. "ClearPath MCP Software Series for Azure affords organizations a more seamless transition to hybrid and multi-cloud environments, with reduced risk and time to achieve value from the cloud," said Vishal Gupta, senior vice president, Products and Platforms and Chief Technology Officer, Unisys.
Odix was nominated to MISA for integrating their recently launched product, FileWall, with Microsoft Azure Sentinel. FileWall is a security application for Microsoft 365 mailboxes and now includes reporting capabilities to Azure Sentinel.
Microsoft Reports Evolution of China-Linked Threat Actor GADOLINIUM. Microsoft this week announced that it recently removed 18 Azure Active Directory applications that were being abused by China-linked state-sponsored threat actor GADOLINIUM. Also known as APT40, TEMP.Periscope, TEMP.Jumper, Leviathan, BRONZE MOHAWK, and Kryptonite Panda, the adversary has been active since at least 2013, mainly operating in support of China's naval modernization efforts, through targeting various engineering and maritime entities, including a U.K.-based company. The threat actor was recently observed leveraging Azure cloud services and open source tools in attacks employing spear-phishing emails with malicious attachments.
An APT group has started heavily relying on cloud services like Azure Active Directory and OneDrive, as well as open-source tools, to obfuscate its attacks. Microsoft has suspended 18 Azure Active Directory applications that were being leveraged for command-and-control infrastructure by what it says is a Chinese nation-state actor.
Jumio announced that its AI-powered identity verification solutions are now available to Microsoft Azure Active Directory External Identities for B2C customers. Azure Active Directory B2C is a customer identity access management solution.
As a cornerstone of the strategy, SES signed a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to be an Azure Orbital partner as well as to accelerate and expand the use of Microsoft Azure across its operations and jointly develop cloud-based video and data connectivity managed services. As an Azure Orbital partner, SES will be co-locating and managing O3b mPOWER gateways with Microsoft Azure locations so its customers are always only "One-hop" away from their Azure cloud services anywhere in the world.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the release of Project OneFuzz, an open source fuzzing framework for Azure that the tech giant has been using internally for the past year to find and patch bugs. Project OneFuzz, which Microsoft describes as an extensible fuzz testing framework, is designed to address some of the challenges typically associated with fuzzing, enabling developers to conduct this type of testing themselves and allowing security engineers to focus on other important tasks.
Data Intensity announced the launch of Safe-Switch, a life-cycle approach to migrating and managing Oracle applications and database platforms on Microsoft Azure. In response to the Oracle and Microsoft Cloud Interoperability Partnership announcement, Safe-Switch was created to help customers accelerate their consumption of heterogenous cloud adoption, with freedom of choice and seamless integration for Oracle and Microsoft workloads.
Microsoft this week announced the public preview of new functionality to automatically deliver security patches to Windows virtual machines in Azure. Called automatic VM guest patching, the feature is meant to improve the update management of Windows VMs to ensure security compliance through the automatic delivery of necessary patches.
Buurst announced the availability of its flagship product, SoftNAS, in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, an online store providing applications and services for use on Azure. Buurst customers can now take advantage of the productive and trusted Azure cloud platform, with streamlined deployment and management.