Strengthen and optimize compliance in Azure Security Center

By Dustin Ward

The Regulatory Compliance dashboard in Azure Security Center is an excellent tool for helping organizations understand their compliance posture relative to industry standards. Reporting on compliance with specific standards is obviously critical for regulated customers, though tracking compliance status is also relevant to many other organizations who want to align with industry-defined best practices. Many…

Azure Defender for Storage powered by Microsoft threat intelligence

By Dustin Ward

This blog post was co-authored with Roy Levin, Senior Data Scientist With the reality of working from home, more people and devices are now accessing corporate data across home networks. This raises the risks of cyber-attacks and elevates the importance of proper data protection. One of the resources most targeted by attackers is data storage,…

E-commerce on Azure increases security with Payment Card Industry Three-Domain Secure compliance

By Dustin Ward

More customers than ever are shopping from home in the current health environment, and companies are responding by rapidly deploying cloud-based e-commerce solutions. Azure is helping these companies meet their customers’ needs with robust, customizable, and scalable e-commerce solutions that process transactions quickly and securely.  Security is paramount for both e-commerce providers and customers, and…

Accelerating Department of Defense mission workloads with Azure

By Dustin Ward

As the Azure engineering team continues to deliver a rapid pace of innovation for defense customers, we’re also continuing to support Department of Defense (DoD) customers and partners in delivering new capabilities to serve mission needs. In many cases, accelerating mission workloads means forging a faster and more secure way for teams to build, ship,…