Tag: Microsoft

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Lily Kim. Enabling government to advance the mission Today we’re announcing a significant milestone in serving our mission customers from cloud to edge with the initial availability of two new Azure Government Secret regions, now in private preview and pending accreditation. Azure Government Secret delivers comprehensive and mission enabling cloud services to US Federal Civilian, Department of Defense (DoD), Intelligence Community (IC), and US government partners working within Secret enclaves. In addition, we’ve expanded the scope of all Azure Government regions to enable DoD Impact Level 5 (IL5) data, providing a cost-effective option for L5 ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Marley Gray. Today’s announcement of the Token Taxonomy Initiative (TTI) is a milestone in the maturity of the blockchain industry.  The initiative brings together some of the most important blockchain platforms from the Ethereum ecosystem, Hyperledger and IBM, Intel, R3, and Digital Asset in a joint effort to establish a common taxonomy for tokens. Also joining are other standards bodies like FINRA, enterprises like J.P. Morgan, Banco Santander, and ING and companies pushing the boundaries in blockchain like ConsenSys, Clearmatics, Komgo, Web3 Labs, and others. Over the past year, the Azure Blockchain engineering team has ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Steve Lasker. Azure and Sylabs announced today a new collaboration which enables Singularity container images to be stored in registries supporting the Open Container Initiative (OCI) Distribution Specification. Singularity version 3.0 defines a new secure Singularity Image Format (SIF). Azure Container Registry supports storing Helm, CNAB, and other cloud native artifacts in OCI distribution based registries, by working with the OCI Registry as Storage (ORAS) project as a common library to enable various artifact types to be stored. Leveraging the same common library, Singularity Image Format container images can now be stored in Azure Container ... Read More

Feed: Neo4j Graph Database Platform. Author: Jocelyn Hoppa. By Andy Robbins, Adversary Resilience Lead at SpecterOps | April 17, 2019Reading time: 14 minutes Editor’s Note: This presentation was given by Andy Robbins at GraphConnect New York in October 2017.Presentation SummarySpecterOps provides adversary simulation, adversary detection and adversary resilience to companies looking to assess their current cybersecurity measures. Their experts have worked in defending government agencies as well as worldwide enterprises in the financial services, healthcare, technology, media and communications industries. In this presentation, Resilience Lead, Andy Robbins will dive into how graphs have changed the way hackers attack. He acknowledges ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. Making the customer’s life easier has always been 2nd Watch’s top priority. As one of the first AWS Partner Network (APN) Consulting Partners, they chose to focus exclusively on the cloud and have been helping enterprises across the globe take advantage of cloud computing since its founding.Today, 2nd Watch is an APN Premier Consulting Partner and member of the AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP) Partner Program. They also hold AWS Competencies in DevOps, Migration, Financial Services, and Microsoft Workloads. 2nd Watch is comprised of agile teams of AWS experts focused on providing value ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. The AWS Partner Network (APN) is the global partner program for Amazon Web Services (AWS). We enable APN Partners to build successful AWS-based businesses and help customers identify top APN Partners that can deliver on core business objectives.To receive APN program designations such as AWS Competency, AWS Managed Services Provider (MSP), and AWS Service Delivery, organizations must undergo rigorous technical validation and assessment of their AWS solutions and practices. These designations help customers identify and choose specialized APN Partners that can provide value-added services and solutions. Guidance from these skilled professionals leads to ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Abhave Sharma. We are pleased to share the capability to rewrite HTTP headers in Azure Application Gateway. With this, you can add, remove, or update HTTP request and response headers while the request and response packets move between the client and backend application. You can also add conditions to ensure that the headers you specify are rewritten only when the conditions are met. The capability also supports several server variables which help store additional information about the requests and responses, thereby enabling you to make powerful rewrite rules. Figure 1: Application Gateway removing the port ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Sercan Guler. AzCopy v10 (Preview) now supports Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 as a data source. You can now copy an entire AWS S3 bucket, or even multiple buckets, to Azure Blob Storage using AzCopy. Customers who wanted to migrate their data from AWS S3 to Azure Blob Storage have faced challenges because they had to bring up a client between the cloud providers to read the data from AWS to then put it in Azure Storage. This meant the scale and speed of the data transfer was limited to the client in the middle ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Arindam Chatterjee. Today we’re announcing the general availability of Apache Hadoop 3.0 on Azure HDInsight. Microsoft Azure is the first cloud provider to offer customers the benefit of the latest innovations in the most popular open source analytics projects, with unmatched scalability, flexibility, and security. With the general availability of Apache Hadoop 3.0 on Azure HDInsight, we are building upon existing capabilities with a number of key enhancements that further improve performance and security, and deepen support for the rich ecosystem of big data analytics applications. Bringing Apache Hadoop 3.0 and supercharged performance to the ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Liza Mash Levin. This post is co-authored by Tim Burrell, Principal Security Engineering Manager and Dotan Patrich, Principal Software Engineer. As cyberattacks become more complex and harder to detect. The traditional correlation rules of a SIEM are not enough, they are lacking the full context of the attack and can only detect attacks that were seen before. This can result in false negatives and gaps in the environment. In addition, correlation rules require significant maintenance and customization since they may provide different results based on the customer environment. Advanced Machine Learning capabilities that are built ... Read More