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…

Streamline your DDoS management with new Azure Firewall Manager capabilities

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Alethea Toh, Program Manager, Azure Networking. As customers continue to adopt a Zero Trust security approach in their digital transformation, they often prefer a way to manage their network security policies and resources in one central place. Today, we are announcing that Azure Firewall Manager now supports managing Azure DDoS…

Innovate securely with Azure

By Dustin Ward

This blog post has been co-authored by Carissa Broadbent, Product Marketing Manager, Security Marketing. Security is based on the inherent need for safety. Today, we see that need challenged more than ever. In the past year alone, we’ve witnessed an exponential increase in ransomware, supply chain attacks, phishing, and identity theft. These activities fundamentally threaten our…