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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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Strengthening Your Security Posture: The Role of Zero Trust Architecture

In today’s digital landscape, traditional security measures are no longer enough to safeguard sensitive data and resources. Cyber threats are evolving, and organizations must adapt to stay resilient. Enter Zero Trust Architecture—a security framework that’s gaining traction for its ability to mitigate modern risks effectively. Today we explore Zero Trust a bit more, and some simple steps to begin shaping your own organization towards a more secure-by-design mindset.

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Transforming Threat Intelligence: Microsoft’s Latest Enhancements and the Road Ahead

As cyber threats grow increasingly sophisticated, Microsoft’s ongoing investment in advanced Threat Intelligence (TI) capabilities helps ensure that organizations can stay a step ahead.  The recently announced updates are a game-changer for cybersecurity professionals, promising smarter, faster, and more proactive threat detection and response.   Today we look at what the changes to TI are and how to update our existing resources in Sentinel to be ready!

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Azure Updates – Number 112 – April 19, 2025 – Easter Edition!

Hop aboard the Azure Express for a delightful springtime summary of Azure News, featuring updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Each update is linked to its original Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Sentinel, Copilot for Security, or other blog source—saving you time so you can enjoy the Easter festivities instead of digging around for recent releases and changes.

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