DDoS Mitigation with Microsoft Azure Front Door

By Dustin Ward

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…

Microsoft Azure Security expands variant hunting capacity at a cloud tempo

By Dustin Ward

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…

Scale Azure Firewall SNAT ports with NAT Gateway for large workloads

By Dustin Ward

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 sponsors OWASP ModSecurity CRS to improve application security

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Henry Yan, Product Marketing Manager. Increased cloud adoption and the shift to hybrid work has resulted in increased usage of digital assets. While moving web applications and APIs to the cloud provides many advantages for organizations, including transforming business models and enhancing the customer experience, it also presents new security…