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The productivity advantages of Microsoft Azure: vertical focus

IT World

This week Microsoft offered up a presentation on its “ Microsoft Cloud For Sustainability ” effort, which should benefit companies trying to wrap their arms around efforts to reverse climate change and pollution.

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Recent Teams, Office outages were caused by cyberattacks: Microsoft

IT World

Microsoft has confirmed that recent outages to its popular services, including Outlook, Teams, OneDrive, and cloud computing platform Azure, were caused by a DDoS attack by a threat actor that the company tracks as Storm-1359.

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7 highly useful PowerShell tools

IT World

A simple blue window and some text has transformed the world of Windows administration from a point-and-click GUI to scripts that automate everything, as well as provide log rotation and identity lifecycle management and govern which server receives which updates.

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Security Is an Inherently Human Challenge

OpenView Labs

So says Edna Conway, Chief Security and Risk Officer for Microsoft Azure. This approach has served her well in her role of ensuring that the Azure cloud platform is, in her words, “the number-one trusted cloud platform on the planet.” On a related note, she recommended making quality and resilience priority number one.

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Microsoft touts its first managed blockchain service: JPMorgan’s Quorum

IT World

Microsoft today announced its first Azure-based, managed blockchain platform using JPM's Quorum enterprise-class distributed ledger technology. Since 2015, Microsoft's Azure cloud service has allowed users to install a number of blockchain platforms, including Enterprise Ethereum, Hyperledger Fabric, R3 Corda, and Quorum.

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The Fundamentals of Role-Based Access Control

BetterCloud

RBAC requires role definitions and governance. To define and govern roles, you need to, well, understand each role across your organization. Examples of cloud provider role-based access control. Most cloud providers enable granular access control. With Azure RBAC, access to resources is controlled by role assignments.

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10 security questions enterprise customers have about SaaS/cloud software (but won't ask you)

Audacix

As enterprises increasingly become more open to introducing cloud software to their environments, you as a cloud provider must proactively anticipate their concerns and address them. Why are enterprise buyers' concerned about cloud software security? What security questions stop enterprise buyers from buying your cloud software?

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