This is an exciting week for us at Microsoft. At RSA Conference 2019, we are announcing new and exciting capabilities in Azure and Microsoft 365. With this blog post, we wanted to share with you what we have been working on for Azure Security Center. Azure Security Center now leverages machine learning to reduce the […]
Announcing new capabilities in Azure Firewall
Today we are excited to launch two new key capabilities to Azure Firewall. Threat intelligence based filtering Service tags filtering Azure Firewall is a cloud native firewall-as-a-service offering which enables customers to centrally govern all their traffic flows using a DevOps approach. The service supports both application (such as *.github.com), and network level filtering rules. […]
Presenting the new IIC Security Maturity Model for IoT
Organizations deploying IoT solutions often ask similar questions as they address security—What is the risk my organization takes on as we adopt IoT? How much security do we need for our scenario? Where should we invest for the biggest impact? To answer those questions, Microsoft co-authored and edited the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) IoT Security […]
Azure.Source – Volume 72
Now in preview Announcing Azure Spatial Anchors for collaborative, cross-platform mixed reality apps Azure Spatial Anchors, a mixed reality service that enables you to build a new generation of mixed reality applications that are collaborative, cross-platform, and spatially aware, is now in public preview. Across industries, developers and businesses are using mixed reality in their […]
Guardian modules: Bringing Azure Sphere security to brownfield IoT
When someone mentions the words “Internet of Things,” often the first picture that comes to mind is some sort of device with the Internet “built-in.” However, a built-in design involves months or years of design work and applies only to devices that have yet to come to market. How do businesses leverage IoT for the […]
New device modeling experience in Azure IoT Central
On the Azure IoT Central team, we are constantly talking with our customers to understand how we can continue to provide more value. One of our top pieces of product feedback has been for a clearer device modeling experience that separates the device instance from the device template. Previously, viewing the device and editing the device template took […]
Creating IoT applications with Azure Database for PostgreSQL
There are numerous IoT use cases in different industries, with common categories like predictive maintenance, connected vehicles, anomaly detection, asset monitoring, and many others. For example, in water treatment facilities in the state of California, IoT devices can be installed in water pumps to measure horse power, flow rate, and electric usage of the water […]
Cognitive Services Speech SDK 1.3 – February update
Developers can now access the latest Cognitive Services Speech SDK which now supports: Selection of the input microphone through the AudioConfig class Expanded support for Debian 9 Unity in C# (beta) Additional sample code Read the updated Speech Services documentation to get started today. What’s new The Speech SDK supports a selection of the input […]
Introducing Microsoft Azure Sentinel, intelligent security analytics for your entire enterprise
Security can be a never-ending saga—a chronicle of increasingly sophisticated attacks, volumes of alerts, and long resolution timeframes where today’s Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) products can’t keep pace. SecOps teams are inundated with a very high volume of alerts and spend far too much time in tasks like infrastructure set up and maintenance. […]
Announcing the general availability of Azure Lab Services
Today, we are very excited to announce the general availability of Azure Lab Services – your computer labs in the cloud. With Azure Lab Services, you can easily set up and provide on-demand access to preconfigured virtual machines (VMs) to teach a class, train professionals, run hackathons or hands-on labs, and more. Simply input what […]