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Compliance in the Cloud: Navigating Azure Security Standards

In today’s article, we explore the digital landscape that businesses face, there are strict regulatory requirements for securing sensitive data, ensuring privacy, and maintaining compliance with industry and government mandates. Whether you’re a startup, enterprise, or regulated entity, Microsoft Azure offers a robust suite of security and compliance solutions designed to simplify compliance management and enhance security posture. We’ll explore some foundations and remove the complexity of how to track your compliance in Microsoft Azure.

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Top Azure Services for Supporting Small Businesses

In today’s digital-first world, small businesses must leverage cost-effective, scalable, and secure cloud solutions to stay competitive. Microsoft Azure offers a powerful ecosystem of cloud services that can help businesses improve efficiency, security, and innovation without requiring extensive technical expertise. One of the biggest advantages of Azure and Microsoft Cloud is the ability to toggle (scale) up or down with your business. I’ve always felt that cloud-based secure identity is a huge advantage, and Entra ID makes it easy to support all the advanced security features without dragging the traditional big costs along.

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Securing Azure Environments: Best Practices

In today’s cloud-powered world, businesses must prioritize security and compliance to safeguard their Azure environments from cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Azure provides a robust suite of security tools and best practices to help organizations fortify their cloud infrastructure, maintain regulatory compliance, and ensure operational resilience. In this post we explore some of the Best Practices for securing Azure environments and walk through the basics of Zero Trust in Azure.

Whether you’re an Azure architect, security engineer, or IT leader, this guide offers comprehensive strategies for securing your deployments, backed by Microsoft’s recommendations. There are many cross-referenced resources from Microsoft’s Security Adoption Framework to help get you started with your Azure security Journey.

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Azure Updates – Number 114 – May 31, 2025

A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, Security Copilot and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

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Azure Security Features Explained: Protecting Your Data with Microsoft’s Robust Framework

In today’s digital world, securing sensitive information is a top priority for organizations. Microsoft Azure, one of the leading cloud platforms, offers a comprehensive suite of security features designed to safeguard your data from internal and external threats. This is supported by a solid suite of Security SaaS offerings in the Defender stack, Azure Firewall, network security groups, web application firewalls, and so much more! (But wait — there’s more!) In this article, we’ll explore these features step by step, providing insights on how to implement them effectively.

Today we jump into protecting data in Azure using Microsoft’s native security tooling.

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Azure Updates – Number 113 – May 17, 2025

A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, Security Copilot and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes.

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Azure Updates – Number 112 – Sunday May 4th, 2025

A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, Security Copilot and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes.
Special – May the 4th be with you edition! “May the 4th” has become a globally recognized celebration of Star Wars Day, thanks to the iconic phrase, “May the Force be with you.” The origins of this unofficial holiday date back to May 4, 1979, when Margaret Thatcher became the first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. To commemorate her victory, her political party published an advertisement in a newspaper that read: “May the Fourth Be With You, Maggie. Congratulations!”

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