Security News
With the addition of the Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services APIs, it is easier than ever for the RapidAPI developer community to incorporate advanced services into their applications such as analyzing images to recognize faces or translating text to a different language. "With the addition of Microsoft Azure Cognitive Services, we make it even easier for the more than one million developers on the RapidAPI Marketplace to incorporate AI into their solutions, without requiring additional machine learning expertise."
Login VSI, the company dedicated to maximizing the end-user experience, announced the general availability of Login Enterprise with native support for Microsoft Azure. Login VSI has seen significant traction with our customers running applications and infrastructure on Azure.
Admins working with Microsoft Azure beware: phishers are updating their assets to reflect changes on the company's cloud-based login screen. Office 365 ATP data shows that attackers have started to spoof the new Azure AD sign-in page in multiple phishing campaigns.
Redis Labs announced a new strategic agreement with MicrosoftMicrosoft to deliver Redis Enterprise as new, fully integrated tiers of Azure Cache for Redis. The new service offering, available in Private Preview, will unlock the power of Redis for Azure customers' mission-critical workloads through advanced, enterprise-grade functionality, including Redis on Flash, modules, and, in the future, the ability to create an active geo-redundant cache for hybrid-cloud architectures.
N4Stack, the division of Node4 which brings together the database, DevOps and cloud practices to provide a range of enterprise consulting and managed services, has announced the launch of Azure Service Tiles. Driven by customer demand, Node4's Azure Service Tiles are designed to overcome the challenges customers face when adopting Azure, making the process easier and more cohesive.
Qualys, a pioneer and leading provider of cloud-based security and compliance solutions, announced that Qualys Container Security is immediately available and Qualys Vulnerability Management will be available within a month in Microsoft Azure Security Center. Any discovered vulnerabilities are reported to Azure Security Center as recommendations, including the ability to create playbooks for one-click remediation with no software to deploy or update.
ClearSale, an international fraud protection organization, announced it has moved the hosting of its anti-fraud application to Microsoft Azure. Migrating to cloud services on Azure and using the Azure SQL Database hyperscale tier allows ClearSale to leverage familiar technologies on a high-availability platform.
Secure World is part of Microsoft's operating environment for applications that run on Azure Sphere devices that executes Microsoft security code. "Sylvie Liu, security program manager for Microsoft Security Response Center, said:"While Azure Sphere implements security upfront and by default, Microsoft recognizes security is not a one-and-done event.
Microsoft has announced a new security research / bug bounty program aimed at testing and improving the security of Azure Sphere, its comprehensive IoT security solution. Through the Azure Sphere Security Service, the MCU can securely connect to the cloud and web, and the service makes sure that the booted software is genuine, that OS security updates are downloaded and installed securely and automatically.
Microsoft on Tuesday announced a new security research challenge that encourages white hat hackers to find and responsibly disclose vulnerabilities in the company's Azure Sphere solution. In an effort to identify potentially serious vulnerabilities in Azure Sphere, Microsoft has decided to run a three-month application-only challenge.