Improve your security defenses for ransomware attacks with Azure Firewall

By Dustin Ward

To ensure customers running on Azure are protected against ransomware attacks, Microsoft has invested heavily in Azure security and has provided customers with the security controls needed to protect their Azure cloud workloads. A comprehensive overview of best practices and recommendations can be found in the “Azure Defenses for Ransomware Attack” e-book. Here, we would like…

Azure Cost Management and Billing updates – January 2022

By Dustin Ward

Whether you’re a new student, a thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where you’re spending it, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the bill, and this is where Azure Cost Management and Billing comes…

The intersection of edge computing, telecommunications networks, and the cloud

By Dustin Ward

It’s been 12-plus years since we embarked on the paradigm-shifting edge computing story, which brings the cloud closer to the source of data generation and consumption. Nowadays, the cloud provides resource-rich compute and storage capabilities, remote management, and new applications and services as latency continues to be reduced. Edge computing has gone mainstream, as evidenced…

Enabling Zero Trust with Azure network security services

By Dustin Ward

This blog has been co-authored by Eliran Azulai, Principal Program Manager. With the accelerated pace of digital transformation since the COVID-19 pandemic breakthrough, organizations continuously look to migrate their workloads to the cloud and to ensure their workloads are secure. Moreover, organizations need a new security model that more effectively adapts to the complexity of…

New performance and logging capabilities in Azure Firewall

By Dustin Ward

Organizations are speeding up workload migration to Azure to take advantage of the growing set of innovative cloud services, scale, and economic benefits of the public cloud. Applications migration to the cloud consequently increases the network traffic throughput demand. This puts pressure on network elements and more specifically on Azure Firewall which is in the…