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Oct 4th, 2022 - This post was co-authored by Fabrice Buron, Chief Commercial Officer, INT. Energy companies are currently going through a massive transformation by moving hundreds of applications to monitor, interpret, and administer their data into the cloud. In addition, they have embarked on adopting a common data standard, the OSDU TM Data Platform, to simplify interoperability between applications to facilitate data access, exchange, and collaboration. With Microsoft Energy Data Services , ... [Read More]
Source: azure.microsoft.com
Oct 4th, 2022 - Teams finally offers native support for Apple silicon Macs, and it gets more hybrid work features in Microsoft's latest updates. Written by Liam Tung, Contributing Writer on Microsoft's latest updates to Teams that have rolled out since August target Apple silicon, live translation of speakers, and more controls for inclusive video conferences. Teams users with laptops equipped with Apple's M1 or M2 chips should be noticing a better experience as Microsoft broadens the ... [Read More]
Source: zdnet.com
Oct 4th, 2022 - What's new: strengthening of compliance and risk assurance capabilities, enhanced customer experience capabilities, and expansion into new markets As we continue to expand our Microsoft Cloud for Financial Services offering, we are excited to share our latest updates including new features in general availability and in preview, as well as expanded availability in select new markets. Our goal is to equip every financial organization with the digital capability required to succeed in today's ... [Read More]
Source: cloudblogs.microsoft.com
Oct 4th, 2022 - This blog was co-authored by Gopikrishna Kannan, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. Organizations are experiencing an increase in both the volume and sophistication of cyberattacks with the acceleration of digital transformation and the increase in hybrid work. While organizations of all sizes face similar security risks, cybersecurity is rapidly becoming a top concern for small and medium businesses (SMBs) with the shift to remote work and new digital business models. SMBs are ... [Read More]
Source: azure.microsoft.com
Oct 3rd, 2022 - Banks are contending with a lengthy list of up-and-coming competitors. Fintechs, neobanks, and born-in-the-cloud banks are taking an increased market share thanks in large part to their ability to provide the personalized banking experience that customers now expect. Today's customers want personalized banking with the ubiquitous access that comes from a seamless, omnichannel experience. They expect to be able to communicate and interact with their bank anytime they want, anywhere they want. To ... [Read More]
Source: cloudblogs.microsoft.com
Oct 3rd, 2022 - Two new vulnerabilities in Microsoft Exchange that are similar to ProxyShell are being actively exploited, and a patch is not yet available. Microsoft is warning organizations to mitigate two zero-day vulnerabilities in Exchange Server that are being actively exploited in the wild and can result in hands-on-keyboard access and Active Directory reconnaissance and data exfiltration. The vulnerabilities are CVE-2022-41040–a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability–and ... [Read More]
Source: mytechdecisions.com
Oct 3rd, 2022 - By Steve Ginty, Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Defender Threat Intelligence (MDTI) Cybercrime is big and growing bigger. So much so that it can often be difficult to fully understand the impact online attacks have driven over the past decades. To better illustrate the scale and scope of worldwide cybercrime, we've used data from across Microsoft-owned properties and a mix of external sources to create the Cyberthreat Minute , a comprehensive report on malicious activity that is ... [Read More]
Source: csoonline.com
Oct 3rd, 2022 - Microsoft's push to sell pre-integrated cloud services tailored for specific industries is becoming an increasingly big part of its sales approach. Here's an explainer on what's happening with Microsoft's Industry Cloud work. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor on When Microsoft execs talk about the "Microsoft Cloud," they are referring to a growing number of business cloud services that includes Azure, Office 365/Microsoft 365, Dynamics 365, and more. (Just last month, ... [Read More]
Source: zdnet.com
Sep 29th, 2022 - Our customers—across all industries—have a critical need for highly available and resilient cloud frameworks to ensure business continuity and adaptability of ever-growing workloads. One way that customers can achieve resilient and reliable infrastructures in Microsoft Azure (for outbound connectivity) is by setting up their deployments across availability zones in a region. When customers need to connect outbound to the internet from their Azure infrastructures, Network Address ... [Read More]
Source: azure.microsoft.com
Sep 27th, 2022 - The September Windows 11 update add protections against malicious applications and drivers, phishing, credential misuse, and more. Windows 11 2022 (22H2 release) is now out, and Microsoft has once again placed a heavy emphasis on security. The good news for this release is that even Windows Home versions can receive some of the key security features with no additional Windows or Microsoft 365 licensing. Review the Windows 11 22H2 security baseline documents and begin to test these features. ... [Read More]
Source: csoonline.com
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