Bringing commercial innovations in chip design to national security

By Dustin Ward

Semiconductors and microelectronics are some of the most important components in building cutting-edge capabilities for our national security and defense technologies, from satellites and radar to vehicles and communications equipment. Ensuring these components are developed with the utmost regard for security is a critical, yet challenging task. Historically, the security requirements associated with developing microelectronics…

Key foundations for protecting your data with Azure confidential computing

By Dustin Ward

The exponential growth of datasets has resulted in growing scrutiny of how data is exposed—both from a consumer data privacy and compliance perspective. In this context, confidential computing becomes an important tool to help organizations meet their privacy and security needs surrounding business and consumer data. Confidential computing technology encrypts data in memory and only…

Upgrade your network protection with Azure Firewall Premium

By Dustin Ward

This blog has been co-authored by Suren Jamiyanaa, Program Manager II and Eliran Azulai, Principal Program Manager. We continue to be amazed by the adoption, interest, positive feedback, and the breadth of use cases customers are finding for our service. Today, we are excited to share several new Azure Firewall Premium capabilities based on your…

Business as usual for Azure customers despite 2.4 Tbps DDoS attack

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored by Alethea Toh, Program Manager and Syed Pasha, Principal Network Engineer, Azure Networking. In early August, we shared Azure’s Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack trends for the first half of 2021. We reported a 25 percent increase in the number of attacks compared to Q4 of 2020, albeit a decline in…