Cyberattacks continue to rise across businesses of all sizes as attackers are adapting their techniques and increasing the complexity of their operations.1 The risk of these attacks is significant for small and medium businesses (SMBs) as they usually don’t have the specialized knowledge or resources to protect against emerging threats and face more challenges when […]
Monitor Azure Virtual Network Manager changes with event logging
Today, our customers establish and manage their Azure virtual networks at scale. As their number of network resources grows, the question of how to maintain connectivity and security among their scale of resources arises. This is where Microsoft Azure Virtual Network Manager comes in—your one-stop shop for managing the connectivity and security of your network […]
Azure WAF guided investigation Notebook using Microsoft Sentinel for automated false positive tuning
With special thanks to Pete Bryan, Principal Security Research Manager, Microsoft Security. The SQL injection attack remains one of the critical attacks in the OWASP Top 10, and it involves injecting a SQL query via the input data field into a web application without input validation. According to Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2022, 67 percent […]
Microsoft Azure Security expands variant hunting capacity at a cloud tempo
In the first blog in this series, we discussed our extensive investments in securing Microsoft Azure, including more than 8500 security experts focused on securing our products and services, our industry-leading bug bounty program, our 20-year commitment to the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), and our sponsorship of key Open-Source Software security initiatives. We also introduced […]
Automate your attack response with Azure DDoS Protection solution for Microsoft Sentinel
DDoS attacks are most known for their ability to take down applications and websites by overwhelming servers and infrastructure with large amounts of traffic. However, there are additional objectives for cybercriminals to use DDoS attacks to exfiltrate data, extort, act politically, or ideologically. One of the most devastating features of DDoS attacks is their unique […]
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Scale Azure Firewall SNAT ports with NAT Gateway for large workloads
This post was co-authored by Suren Jamiyanaa, Product Manager II, Azure Networking. As large organizations across all industries expand their cloud business and operations, one core criteria for their cloud infrastructure is to make connections over the internet at scale. However, a common outbound connectivity issue encountered when handling large-scale outbound traffic is source network […]