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Microsoft Secure

Detecting malicious key extractions by compromised identities for Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is a fully managed NoSQL cloud database service for modern app development. It offers a variety of advanced built-in features, such as automatic worldwide data replication, lightning-fast response types, and a variety of APIs. In this blog post, we describe security practices for securing access to Azure Cosmos DB and show how monitoring relevant control plane operations can help in the detection of potentially compromised authorization.
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Microsoft Secure

Improving AI-based defenses to disrupt human-operated ransomware

To disrupt human-operated ransomware attacks as early as possible, we enhanced the AI-based protections in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint with a range of specialized machine learning techniques that swiftly identify and block malicious files, processes, or behavior observed during active attacks.
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Microsoft Secure

Securing your IoT with Edge Secured-core devices

To simplify your IoT security journey, today, we’re announcing the availability of Windows IoT Edge Secured-core devices available in the Azure Certified Device catalog from Lenovo, ASUS and AAEON, additionally we’re also announcing the availability of devices that meet the Microsoft sponsored Edge Compute Node protection profile which is governed with industry oversight, from Scalys and Eurotech. And learn more on Microsoft’s investments in MCU security.
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Networkworld

Cisco puts app-performance tools in the cloud

Cisco is taking aim at better controlling the performance and development of core applications with a new AppDynamics cloud service and open-source development tools.AppDynamics Cloud is a cloud-native service designed to let enterprises observe applications and take action to remediate performance problems.  
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Available by the end of June, the service is built to observe distributed and dynamic cloud-native applications at scale, wrote chief marketing officer of Cisco AppDynamics, Eric Schou in a blog about the new offering.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

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Microsoft Secure

The many lives of BlackCat ransomware

The use of an unconventional programming language, multiple target devices and possible entry points, and affiliation with prolific threat activity groups have made the BlackCat ransomware a prevalent threat and a prime example of the growing ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) gig economy.
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Networkworld

RSA: Cisco launches SASE, offers roadmap for other cloud-based services

Cisco made a variety of security upgrades at the RSA Conference designed to move security operation to the cloud, improve its Secure Access Service Edge offering and offer new simplified security end point control.The biggest piece of the Cisco roll out was a new overarching security platform called the Cisco Security Cloud will include unified management and policies, and offer open APIs to help grow a multivendor security ecosystem. Cisco defines the  Security Cloud as a “multi-year strategic vision for the future of security.” It is an ongoing journey that began several years ago and Cisco will continue delivering upon the key tenets of this vision with a consistent roadmap. The cloud will be made up of existing products like Umbrella and offerings from Duo, other features will be developed in the future.To read this article in full, please click here READ MORE HERE…

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