Delivering consistency and transparency for cloud hardware security

By Dustin Ward

This post was co-authored by Mark Russinovich, CTO and Technical Fellow, Azure, and Bryan Kelly, Partner Architect, Azure Hardware Systems and Infrastructure. When it comes to building the Microsoft Cloud, our work to standardize designs for systems, boards, racks, and other parts of our datacenter infrastructure is paramount to facilitating forward progress and innovation across…

Azure Firewall Basic now in preview

By Dustin Ward

This blog was co-authored by Gopikrishna Kannan, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. Organizations are experiencing an increase in both the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks with the acceleration of digital transformation and the increase in hybrid work. While organizations of all sizes face similar security risks, cybersecurity is rapidly becoming a top concern for small…

Strengthen your security with Policy Analytics for Azure Firewall

By Dustin Ward

This blog was co-authored by Gopikrishna Kannan, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. Network security policies are constantly evolving to keep pace with the demands of workloads. With the acceleration of workloads to the cloud, network security policies—Azure Firewall policies in particular—are frequently changing and often updated multiple times in a week (in many cases several…