The Global Smart Home Devices Market was valued at US$14.55 billion (€13.2 billion) in 2018 and is expected to reach $40.23 billion (€36.5 billion) by 2023, according to the 2019 Smart Home Device Market Report. It’s no secret that smart home technology is advancing at breathtaking speeds, with all sorts of devices now available from internet-connected […]
Smart security: How to protect your smart home devices from hackers
Hand-in-hand – Why the IoT needs SD-WAN
The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the major influencing trends in the digital transformation of the global economy. In fact, says Hubert da Costa, SVP and GM EMEA at Cybera, worldwide demand for IoT technologies continues to climb, with data and analytics company GlobalData projecting that the global market for IoT-enabling software, hardware, and […]
New Azure Security Center and Azure platform security capabilities
At Microsoft Ignite we're sharing the many new capabilities our teams have built to improve security with Azure Security Center and the Azure Platform. We have a long list of new innovations, and this blog provides our general direction and summarizes some of our favorite new features. For more information, you can read all the […]
7 essential tips to keep your IoT network at home up and secure
If you relish a convenient life and smarter home, the Internet of Things must have been an integral-part by now. As the communications extend from devices to appliances, IoT networks shall soon become as common as Wi-Fi at our homes. In fact, following up on a report from Fortune Business, the market shall reach $1.1 trillion by […]
Q&A| Atkins ‘s Ewan Murray on Smart Energy and Technologies
Atkins is globally known for their robust engineering designs and services in renewable energy sectors, providing technical advices on emerging clean energy technologies. They have worked with the UK government, for example, to help the former Department of Energy & Climate Change (DECC) understand and evolve the potential of emerging technologies such as energy storage, […]
Trusted Cloud: security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, and IP
Can you trust your cloud provider? That’s a question being asked a lot of these days, and with the newest version of our popular white paper Trusted Cloud: Microsoft Azure security, privacy, compliance, resiliency, and protected IP we’ve worked to provide you answers. When we first published Trusted Cloud in 2015, the paper was 13 […]
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CIS Azure Security Foundations Benchmark open for comment
One of the best ways to speed up securing your cloud deployments is to focus on the most impactful security best practices. Best practices for securing any service begins with a fundamental understanding of cybersecurity risk and how to manage it. As an Azure customer, you can leverage this understanding by using security recommendations from […]
SAP on Azure–Designing for availability and recoverability
This is the third in a four-part blog series on Designing a great SAP on Azure Architecture. Robust SAP on Azure Architectures are built on the pillars of security, performance and scalability, availability and recoverability, efficiency and operations. We covered designing for performance and scalability previously and within this blog we will focus on availability […]