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Hybrid environments can now join the preview party for FIDO2 support in Azure Active Directory. One way to move on is via a FIDO2 security key; the FIDO alliance has already signed up the likes of Google and Mozilla for browser authentication and back in October 2019 Microsoft unveiled a preview of FIDO2 security support in Azure Active Directory.
CyberMDX, a leading provider of medical cyber security solution, delivering asset visibility and threat prevention for medical devices and clinical assets, announced that it has completed integration certification for the Microsoft Azure Security Center for IoT. Integrating CyberMDX visibility and detection capabilities with Microsoft Azure Security Center for IoT, healthcare organizations are equipped with cross-cloud and devices visibility, classification and incident response capabilities. Azure Security Center for IoT provides adaptive threat prevention, and intelligent threat detection and response across workloads running on on-premises, on edge, in Azure.
ClearDATA, the leader in healthcare public cloud security, compliance and privacy, expanded their ClearDATA Comply Software as a Service compliance management product to include Microsoft's Azure Cloud Services. The solution automatically configures over 70 controls across 32 of the most commonly used Azure services for sensitive patient data in healthcare including Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Machine Learning as well as PaaS based services like Azure SQL. ClearDATA is a Microsoft Gold Partner and has offered managed security, compliance and privacy solutions on Microsoft Azure since 2015.
CyberX announced a new API-level integration with Microsoft Azure Security Center for IoT, enabling joint clients to gain a unified view of security across all their managed and unmanaged IoT devices. The combination of CyberX's agentless security platform and Azure Security Center for IoT provides comprehensive IoT device protection and zero trust security for organizations seeking to reduce risk from enterprise IoT threats as well as from industrial IoT, Smart Buildings, Smart Retail, and more.
The bug-hunters at Checkpoint have laid claim to the discovery and reporting of two serious, and now patched, security flaws in Microsoft Azure. Among the fixes are security updates for iOS and macOS, the two major operating systems from Cook and Co. While there aren't any massive risks posed by the patched flaws, users and admins should look to get the patches in place before malware writers begin to take aim at them.
Cybersecurity researchers at Check Point today disclosed details of two recently patched potentially dangerous vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure services that, if exploited, could have allowed hackers to target several businesses that run their web and mobile apps on Azure. According to a report researchers shared with The Hacker News, the first security vulnerability is a request spoofing issue that affected Azure Stack, a hybrid cloud computing software solution by Microsoft.
Microsoft this week announced the availability of Azure Security Benchmark v1, a collection of more than 90 security best practices recommendations for Azure customers. ASB, Microsoft says, was designed to improve the consistency of security documentation for Azure services by creating a framework containing all recommendations for Azure services, in the same format.
PacketViper, the cyber deception leader for automated threat detection, prevention and response, announced the general availability of Deception360 for Microsoft Azure. Deception360 for Azure cloud helps customers leverage deception to reduce dwell time and respond to threats within the Azure cloud environment while also preventing attackers from getting in.
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Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company, announced the launch of advanced cloud Security Operations Centre (SOC) services using...