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The productivity advantages of Microsoft Azure: vertical focus

IT World

Companies are looking to do more in this area because customers increasingly favor vendors with a strong focus on ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) values. The environmental part is currently getting the most focus because it is in the public’s eye with concerns around climate change driving vendor and solution choices.

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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.” She does this by ensuring that Azure is not only secure, but also sustainable and resilient.

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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. For example, with Azure RBAC you can: Allow one user to manage virtual machines in a subscription and another user to manage virtual networks.

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11 application security questions that show if your SaaS is enterprise-ready

Audacix

Buyers are increasingly questioning who has access to their data and where it is stored - a question that you may already be familiar with if you sell to enterprise or government customers. You probably host it on AWS/Google Cloud/Azure - brands that are well known for prioritising your and their own security.