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Microsoft jumps into competitive security service edge (SSE) arena

July 13, 2023 TH Author Cloud Security, Microsoft, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Azure, Network Security, SASE, SD-WAN

Microsoft is jumping into the competitive Secure Service Edge (SSE) arena with a software package aimed at protecting its Windows and Azure customers as well as other cloud-based enterprise resources.The new software is part of Microsoft’s Entra identity and network access suite, and it features two new elements – Entra Internet Access and Entra Private Access – that will control and secure access to cloud-based resources. Those two new pieces, coupled with Microsoft’s existing SaaS-focused cloud-access security broker (CASB), called Microsoft Defender for Cloud apps, comprise Microsoft’s SSE package.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

Networkworld

What is DRaaS and how it can save your business from disaster

April 14, 2022 TH Author Amazon Web Services, Backup Systems and Services, Business Continuity, Microsoft Azure

Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) provides data replication, hosting, and recovery services from the cloud in the event of a disaster, power outage, ransomware attack, or other business interruption.DRaaS backs up data, applications, and IT infrastructure to the cloud, with providers typically having geographically dispersed data center footprints. In the event of a disaster, the business will failover to the DRaaS provider’s data center in a different region. As opposed to traditional disaster recovery methods, which require businesses to operate an off-site DR facility, DRaaS shifts that burden to service providers, and, thus, expands the market beyond the large enterprises that could afford such capital-intensive setups.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

Microsoft Secure

Virtualization-based security (VBS) memory enclaves: Data protection through isolation

June 5, 2018 TH Author attestation report, Cybersecurity, data protection, Hypervisor Code Integrity (HVCI), Microsoft Azure, runtime attestation, secure memory enclaves, SQL Server, VBS enclaves, virtualization-based security

The escalating sophistication of cyberattacks is marked by the increased use of kernel-level exploits that attempt to run malware with the highest privileges and evade security solutions and software sandboxes. Kernel exploits famously gave the WannaCry and Petya ransomware remote code execution capability, resulting in widescale global outbreaks. Windows 10 remained resilient to these attacks, Read more READ MORE HERE…