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Announcing General Availability of Attach & Detach of Virtual Machines on Virtual Machine Scale Sets
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Today, we’re thrilled to announce that the ability to attach or detach Virtual Machines (VMs) to and from a Virtual Machine Scale Set (VMSS) with no downtime is Generally Available. This functionality is available for scale sets with Flexible Orchestration Mode with a Fault Domain Count of 1. Benefits Let Azure do the work: Easily move from a single VM to VMSS Flex and make use of all the benefits that come from scale sets, like Autoscale, Auto OS Upgrades, Spot Priority Mix, Instance Repairs, and Upgrade Policies. Easily scale: By attaching an existing VM to an existing VMSS Flex, you can grow your Compute without having to rebuild it from scratch. No downtime: …
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Introducing an AI Governance Framework for Nonprofits
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How to navigate nonprofit AI adoption with a clear framework The AI Governance Framework for Nonprofits was developed with insights from nearly two dozen nonprofit leaders to help organizations navigate AI adoption and management. The framework was sponsored by Microsoft and created by noted AI advisor, Afua Bruce, author of The Tech that Comes Next, founder and principal of ANB Advisory Group, and faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. The framework aims to provide nonprofits with a clear and actionable roadmap for governance and AI adoption. The training includes video overviews and downloadable documents tailored to organizations' current AI imple…
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Benchmark Testing puts you on the path to peak API Performance
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Benchmark performance testing involves measuring the performance characteristics of an application or system under normal or expected conditions. It's a recommended practice in any case, but it's a critical consideration for your APIs since your consumers will depend on consistent performance for their client applications. Incorporating benchmark testing of your Microsoft Azure API Management services into your software delivery process provides several important benefits: It establishes performance baseline as a known, quantifiable starting point against which future results can be compared. It identifies performance regressions so that you can pinpoint c…
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FinOps para AKS: Um Guia para Otimização de Custos
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[ATTACH type=full" alt="Finops for containers in AKS]62632[/ATTACH]Finops for containers in AKS No cenário em constante evolução da computação em nuvem, gerenciar custos de forma eficaz enquanto se mantém o desempenho ideal é um desafio que muitas organizações enfrentam. Os Serviços Kubernetes do Azure (AKS) oferecem uma plataforma poderosa para orquestração de contêineres, mas sem práticas adequadas de operações financeiras (FinOps), os custos podem rapidamente sair de controle. Aqui estão algumas recomendações para implementar FinOps no AKS para garantir crescimento sustentável e otimização de custos: [HEADING=1] [/HEADING] [HEADING=1]Add-in de Análise de …
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Synchronizing Time on a Forest Root PDC housed within an Entra VM
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Hey everyone! Allan Sandoval from the Directory Services team here. We've all experienced a lot of changes since the rise of cloud computing and virtualization, and our time synchronization technology (Windows Time) is no exception. Today, I want to shed light on the VMICTimeProvider and its impact on Virtual Machines (VM) within an Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) environment. If your domain members and/or Domain Controllers (DC’s) are virtualized, this article is for you. Typically, in an on-premises deployment, you use your Forest Root Primary Domain Controller (PDC) as a time source for all your domain client machines and for other D…
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The 23rd edition of Microsoft’s BlueHat security conference will be hosted by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) at the Redmond, WA corporate campus, October 29 and 30, 2024. BlueHat brings together security researchers and responders from both inside and outside of Microsoft, who come together as peers to exchange ideas, experiences, and best practices, all in the interest of creating a safer and more secure world for everyone.
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The Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program offers public thanks and recognition to security researchers who help protect our customers through discovering and sharing security vulnerabilities under Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure. Today, we are excited to recognize this year’s 100 Most Valuable Researchers (MVRs), based on the total number of points earned for each valid report.
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We are excited to announce that this year the Microsoft Bounty Program has awarded $16.6M in bounty awards to 343 security researchers from 55 countries, securing Microsoft customers in partnership with the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). Each year we identify over a thousand potential security issues together, safeguarding our customers from possible threats through the Microsoft Bounty Program.
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Microsoft partners with the global security researcher community to surface and report security vulnerabilities to protect all users of Microsoft products and services. Researcher submissions help us address immediate threats while also identifying trends and insights to holistically improve the security of our products and services. We’re always looking for ways to build upon this partnership, and with that goal in mind, we are excited to announce the creation of the MSRC Researcher Resource Center.
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Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2024 Q2 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen, Lewis Lee & Ver & Zhiniang Peng, and Wei!
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At the Microsoft Security Response Center, we are committed to continuously improving the security and performance of our services to meet the evolving needs of our customers. We are excited to announce the rollout of the latest version of our Common Vulnerability Reporting (CVRF) API. This update brings improvements in both security and performance, without requiring any changes to your existing invocation methods.
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The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) has always been at the forefront of addressing cyber threats, privacy issues, and abuse arising from Microsoft Online Services. Building on our commitment, we have introduced several updates to the Report Abuse Portal and API, which will significantly improve the way we handle and respond to abuse reports.
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Welcome to the second installment in our series on transparency at the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC). In this ongoing discussion, we discuss our commitment to provide comprehensive vulnerability information to our customers. At MSRC, our mission is to protect our customers, communities, and Microsoft, from current and emerging threats to security and privacy.
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Summary On May 9, 2024, Microsoft successfully addressed multiple vulnerabilities within the Azure Machine Learning (AML) service, which were initially discovered by security research firms Wiz and Tenable. These vulnerabilities, which included Server-Side Request Forgeries (SSRF) and a path traversal vulnerability, posed potential risks for information exposure and service disruption via Denial-of-Service (DOS).
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Summary Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) was notified in January 2024 by our industry partner, Tenable Inc., about the potential for cross-tenant access to web resources using the service tags feature. Microsoft acknowledged that Tenable provided a valuable contribution to the Azure community by highlighting that it can be easily misunderstood how to use service tags and their intended purpose.
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Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2024 Q1 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen, VictorV, and Nitesh Surana! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.
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At the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC), our mission is to protect our customers, communities, and Microsoft from current and emerging threats to security and privacy. One way we achieve this is by determining the root cause of security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products and services. We use this information to identify vulnerability trends and provide this data to our Product Engineering teams to enable them to systematically understand and eradicate security risks.
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Embracing innovation: Derrick’s transition from banking to Microsoft’s Threat Intelligence team
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Meet Derrick, a Senior Program Manager on the Operational Threat Intelligence team at Microsoft. Derrick’s role involves understanding and roadmapping the complete set of tools that Threat Intel analysts use to collect, analyze, process, and disseminate threat intelligence across Microsoft. Derrick’s love of learning and his natural curiosity led him to a career in technology and ultimately, to his current role at Microsoft.
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This blog provides an update on the nation-state attack that was detected by the Microsoft Security Team on January 12, 2024. As we shared, on January 19, the security team detected this attack on our corporate email systems and immediately activated our response process. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence investigation identified the threat actor as Midnight Blizzard, the Russian state-sponsored actor also known as NOBELIUM.
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Faye, a veteran at Microsoft for 22 years, has had a career as varied as it is long. Her journey began in 2002 as the first desktop security Project Manager (PM) in Microsoft IT. From there, she transitioned into owning a deployment team that deployed to desktops and handled operations for Office’s first few customers.
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Microsoft boosts its Microsoft 365 Insider Builds on Windows Bounty Program with higher awards and an expanded scope
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Starting today, we are doubling the maximum bounty award for the Microsoft 365 Insider Bug Bounty Program to $30,000 USD for high impact scenarios, such as unauthenticated non-sandboxed code execution with no user interaction. We are also expanding the scope of our bounty program to include more vulnerability types and products.
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As a young boy, Devin found himself captivated by the adventures of Indiana Jones, the whip-wielding archaeologist from the VHS movies his grandfather showed him. The thrill of unearthing history and the allure of the unknown ignited a spark in Devin, leading him to dream of becoming an archaeologist. However, as he grew older and learned more about the realities of archaeology, he realized that his passion lay elsewhere.
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An Obsession With Impact: The Inspiring Journey of a Dreamer That Led to a Career at Microsoft
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Bruce’s story unfolds in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a young boy, he had an ambitious dream of one day becoming the President of the United States. This aspiration remained his guiding star until he began his professional career after college. His mother, amused by his
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Today, we are adding a new Security Advisory tab to the Security Update Guide to meet our customers’ needs for a unified and authoritative source for the latest public information about Microsoft security updates and issues. We are continuously listening to feedback from users of the Security Update Guide. Our goal is to find new and improved ways to help customers manage security risks and keep their systems protected.
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Congratulations to all the researchers recognized in this quarter’s Microsoft Researcher Recognition Program leaderboard! Thank you to everyone for your hard work and continued partnership to secure customers. The top three researchers of the 2023 Q4 Security Researcher Leaderboard are Yuki Chen, Wei, VictorV! Check out the full list of researchers recognized this quarter here.
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