Author: Rafael Silva

Written by Rafael Silva

“BadAlloc” – Memory allocation vulnerabilities could affect wide range of IoT and OT devices in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks

“BadAlloc” – Memory allocation vulnerabilities could affect wide range of IoT and OT devices in industrial, medical, and enterprise networks https://ift.tt/32Y7zhs Microsoft’s Section 52, the Azure Defender for IoT security research group, recently uncovered a series of critical memory allocation vulnerabilities in IoT and OT devices that adversaries could exploit to bypass security controls in […]

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Azure Bicep Refreshed

Azure Bicep Refreshed https://ift.tt/3ns5JyX In the previous post, I introduced the very early stage of Project Bicep. At that time, it was the version of 0.1.x, but now it’s updated to 0.3.x. You can use it for production, and many features keep being introduced. Throughout this post, I’m going to discuss new features added since […]

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Why Exchange Server updates matter

Why Exchange Server updates matter https://ift.tt/3dT792i It is very important to keep updating your Exchange Servers to a supported Cumulative Update (CU). Simply put, your on-premises environments should always be ready to take an emergency security update (this applies to Exchange, Windows, and other Microsoft products you use on-premises). One thing we learned during the […]

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Security by Design with #Azure Security Center and Azure Defender #ASC #Security #SecOps

Security by Design with #Azure Security Center and Azure Defender #ASC #Security #SecOps https://ift.tt/3exkdcX Azure Architecture Security by Design is increasingly becoming the mainstream development approach to ensure security of software systems. Security architectural design decisions are based on well-known security tactics, and patterns defined as reusable techniques for achieving specific quality concerns. In the […]

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Hyperconverged infrastructure: Azure Stack HCI versus Windows Server with Storage Spaces Direct

Hyperconverged infrastructure: Azure Stack HCI versus Windows Server with Storage Spaces Direct https://ift.tt/3sTBhim Microsoft introduced Storage Spaces Direct with Windows Server 2016. Since then, the OS has included all the components to set up a hyper-converged infrastructure. Based on the same technologies, the company announced Azure Stack HCI two years ago. What are the differences […]