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With special thanks to Pete Bryan, Principal Security Research Manager, Microsoft Security. The SQL injection attack remains one of the critical attacks in the OWASP Top 10, and it involves injecting a SQL query via the input data field into a web application without input validation. According to Microsoft Digital Defense Report 2022, 67 percent…
This blog post was authored by Dave Burkhardt, Principal Product Manager, and co-authored by Harikrishnan M B, Program Manager, and Yun Zheng, Sr Program Manager. Within the last few years, the complexity and size of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have increased dramatically across the industry. As we reported previously, TCP, UDP, and DNS-based attacks are still…
In the first blog in this series, we discussed our extensive investments in securing Microsoft Azure, including more than 8500 security experts focused on securing our products and services, our industry-leading bug bounty program, our 20-year commitment to the Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), and our sponsorship of key Open-Source Software security initiatives. We also introduced…
DDoS attacks are most known for their ability to take down applications and websites by overwhelming servers and infrastructure with large amounts of traffic. However, there are additional objectives for cybercriminals to use DDoS attacks to exfiltrate data, extort, act politically, or ideologically. One of the most devastating features of DDoS attacks is their unique…
This post was co-authored by Suren Jamiyanaa, Product Manager II, Azure Networking. As large organizations across all industries expand their cloud business and operations, one core criteria for their cloud infrastructure is to make connections over the internet at scale. However, a common outbound connectivity issue encountered when handling large-scale outbound traffic is source network…
Microsoft continues to be the cloud leader in confidential computing, and the Azure team is excited to continue our leadership by partnering with Intel to offer confidential computing on 4th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable processors with Intel Trusted Domain Extensions (Intel TDX) later this year, enabling organizations in highly regulated industries to lift and shift…