A guide to balancing external threats and insider risk

Rockwell Automation Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Dawn Cappelli talks about assessing, measuring, and protecting against insider risk.

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Scale Out Your Databases with Azure SQL Hyperscale Named Replicas | Data Exposed

In this episode of Data Exposed with Davide Mauri, get an overview of the newly released feature for Azure SQL Hyperscale Database: Named replicas. Named replicas allow for incredible scalability, giving you the option to scale out the database up to 3… Continue reading Scale Out Your Databases with Azure SQL Hyperscale Named Replicas | Data Exposed

When coin miners evolve, Part 1: Exposing LemonDuck and LemonCat, modern mining malware infrastructure

LemonDuck, an actively updated and robust malware that’s primarily known for its botnet and cryptocurrency mining objectives, adopted more sophisticated behavior and escalated its operations. Today, beyond using resources for its traditional bot and mining activities, LemonDuck steals credentials, removes security controls, spreads via emails, moves laterally, and ultimately drops more tools for human-operated activity.

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Our top new features to help you save time and money and stay safer online as you get ready for back-to-school

Summer is in full swing.  It’s hard to imagine but back-to-school is quickly approaching. There is still a lot of uncertainty in terms of what form the new school year will take. Regardless of whether our children will be returning to school in pe

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New capabilities for the Microsoft Planner app in Microsoft Teams for GCC customers

We’ve extended Microsoft Planner functionality in Microsoft Teams for GCC customers, with GCC High and DoD availability coming soon. These added features for organizing and assigning tasks&nbs… Continue reading New capabilities for the Microsoft Planner app in Microsoft Teams for GCC customers

Microsoft Learn collections now support Docs and Q&A content

Last year, we introduced ‘collections’ on Microsoft Learn, allowing users to easily curate and share custom sets of modules and learning paths. Collections allow users to curate Microsoft Learn’s content into custom learning paths and easily share them… Continue reading Microsoft Learn collections now support Docs and Q&A content