Security News

SUSE and Microsoft collaborate to deliver enterprise Linux kernel optimized for Azure
2018-08-21 11:52

SUSE announced the availability of the enterprise Linux kernel tailored for Microsoft Azure. SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 on-demand instances now run on a custom-tuned kernel for workloads on...

Rapid7 integrates with Microsoft Azure to provide visibility, analytics, and automation for cloud security
2018-07-19 12:03

Rapid7 announced integration between Rapid7’s Insight platform and Microsoft Azure. This integration provides vulnerability management, analytics-driven incident detection for hybrid environments,...

ClearDATA launches healthcare compliant cloud offering on Microsoft Azure
2018-07-17 13:30

ClearDATA has launched a healthcare compliant offering for Microsoft Azure. The offering helps healthcare organizations operating on Azure to innovate and scale while maintaining compliance with...

Microsoft offers new Azure AD tool to nix easily guessed passwords
2018-06-26 15:39

Predictable, easy-to-guess passwords are often the weak link that ends up breaking the security chain and attackers know this. “They know to account for character substitutions like ‘$’ for ‘s’....

Terrible passwords outlawed in Microsoft’s new Azure tool
2018-06-25 15:59

Azure AD Password Protection prevents users from setting a password from the company’s list of 500 most common and easily-guessed examples.

Hardened Azure, softened containers, force unlocking iOS 12, 11 iPhones – and more
2018-06-23 08:12

Plus: Our tip on keeping Mac files encrypted Roundup This week you had to deal with AI security panic, fake Fortnite, and, if you use OpenBSD, the end of Intel HyperThread support…

Microsoft Combats Bad Passwords With New Azure Tools
2018-06-21 14:03

Microsoft this week announced the public preview of new Azure tools designed help its customers eliminate easily guessable passwords from their environments. read more

Microsoft: This Azure password-banning tool will help kill off bad 'P@$$w0rd' habits
2018-06-20 13:40

Admins can now significantly reduce the risk of accounts being compromised by password-spraying attacks.

Passwordless enterprise authentication on Windows 10 and Azure AD
2018-04-17 12:16

Yubico announced that the new Security Key by Yubico supporting FIDO2 will be supported in Windows 10 devices and Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). The feature is currently in limited...

McAfee Launches Security Platform for Azure Cloud
2018-03-07 12:49

Migrating to the cloud is complex. One of the biggest concerns is a loss of visibility on data in the cloud; and this concern only grows with increasing regulatory requirements. GDPR, coming into...