Azure Security Center News and Enhancements

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We are already two weeks into year 2021 and the dust has not settled yet from last September 22-24, where we witnessed the first part of Microsoft Ignite conference as a fully digital event. There have been a lot of news and announcements made at the recent event and we already covered Azure Sentinel news in this article. The second part of Microsoft Ignite is March 2-4, 2021. – similarly, it will be a digital…

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Initial call and proposal for creating a Study of development of smart villages

Few days ago, I got an invitation to propose a plan to develop a Study of development of smart villages for a local municipality of Krsan, Istria, Croatia. I am extremely excited about this and looking forward to developing the study should I win the bid and be selected as the official developer. The study should involve a variety of information technologies, Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft 365, Microsoft Office Applications, wireless technologies,…

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Actionable Guide to Microsoft Azure Security Concerns

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Microsoft Azure platform offers vast number of services and solutions, offering massive possibilities to solve business problems combining various Azure services and products. Microsoft cloud computing platform are likely to be less expensive and more flexible, more reliable, and more secure than on-premises servers and solutions. Security is a key focus of Microsoft Azure who invests enormous amounts of money into securing its infrastructure - more than 1 billion USD (yes, that is 1,000 millions…

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Azure Sentinel – Cloud Guardian

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Azure Sentinel is Microsoft’s recent addition to a hybrid cloud security landscape – it is designed to provide cloud-enabled intelligent analytics not only of your Azure resources, but of on-premises and other cloud resources such as Office 365 and Amazon Web Services as well. Azure Sentinel is Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and Security Orchestration Automated Response (SOAR) product, and I hear you say “Oh, no, not another SIEM product”, but unlike other on-premises solutions,…

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Azure Network Watcher: What it watches?

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Today, using Microsoft Azure, setting up computing environments is easier than ever. You can create multiple networks, subnets, virtual machines, and other numerous networking components in an eyeblink. Managing these complex networks and topologies can become cumbersome and difficult over time. Trying to grasp what-connects-to-what and where exactly that load balancer or subnet is, becomes increasingly difficult in larger environments. Especially when the time comes to troubleshooting and diagnosing problems in such large networks. Microsoft…

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