Windows Server 2022 Security Baseline

Windows Server 2022 Security Baseline https://ift.tt/3BYY8Ox We are pleased to announce the release of the security baseline package for Windows Server 2022!   Please download the content from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit, test the recommended configurations, and customize / implement as appropriate.   Three new settings have been added for this release, an AppLocker update […]

Hackers Leak VPN Account Passwords From 87,000 Fortinet FortiGate Devices

Hackers Leak VPN Account Passwords From 87,000 Fortinet FortiGate Devices https://ift.tt/3jTaEJa Network security solutions provider Fortinet confirmed that a malicious actor had unauthorizedly disclosed VPN login names and passwords associated with 87,000 FortiGate SSL-VPN devices. “These credentials were obtained from systems that remained unpatched against CVE-2018-13379 at the time of the actor’s scan. While they […]

What’s New in Azure Active Directory for August 2021

What’s New in Azure Active Directory for August 2021 https://ift.tt/3nvKA9l Azure Active Directory is Microsoft’s Identity Management-as-a-Service solution, offering seamless access, easy collaboration, efficiency in IT processes and improved security and compliance. In its Release Notes for Azure Active Directory, Microsoft communicated the following planned, new and changed functionality for Azure Active Directory for August […]

Microsoft, CISA urge use of mitigations and workarounds for Office document vulnerability

Microsoft, CISA urge use of mitigations and workarounds for Office document vulnerability https://ift.tt/3jRoyeR Microsoft said it has identified a limited number of attacks targeting a remote code execution vulnerability in MSHTML that affects Microsoft Windows. CISA released its own message urging “users and organizations to review Microsoft’s mitigations and workarounds to address CVE-2021-40444, a remote […]

Announcing performance analyzer for Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Announcing performance analyzer for Microsoft Defender Antivirus https://ift.tt/3zSgMXE Microsoft Defender Antivirus provides always-on, real-time protection, and on-demand antivirus scans on files to protect environments from malicious entities. However, there are times that scans can take a while to complete due to various factors such as environment configurations, longer processes, or unknown files.   IT admins, […]

Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now in preview

Guarantee capacity access with on-demand capacity reservations—now in preview https://ift.tt/2X5QC5A Microsoft customers rely on Azure to host mission-critical workloads and services. A substantial percentage use the traditional infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) approach to deploying virtual machines, often orchestrated with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets or third-party tools. Customers rely on Azure to provide compute capacity on demand. […]