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Protecting Public Data and Trust with Azure Security and Microsoft Entra – A State DOJ Case
On June 27, 2022 – California Department of Justice launched a new Firearms Dashboard Portal with altruistic intentions to “improve transp… Continue reading Protecting Public Data and Trust with Azure Security and Microsoft Entra – A State DOJ Case
By default, Microsoft Defender for Cloud is not enabled on an Azure Subscription. However, if you visit Defender for Cloud in the Azure portal for the first time or if you enable it programmatically via the REST API, Defender for Cloud is enabled for f… Continue reading Defender for Cloud Onboarding workbook
SQL Insiders are working on creating Azure Advisor signals to improve the recommendations surfaced by Azure Advisor. In this episode of Data Exposed, Roberto Cavalcanti and Anna Hoffman will show you a few examples of the existing ones and ask you for … Continue reading SQL Insiders Series: Azure Advisor Signals – What are they | Data Exposed
Process Masquerading is an extremely common attack-vector technique. It occurs when the name or the location of a legitimate process is manipulated to avoid detection of its malicious behavior. It can include alteration of metadata, names or paths wher… Continue reading Detect Masqueraded Process Name Anomalies using an ML notebook
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Microsoft’s threat intelligence teams are observing increasing use of password sprays as an attack vector. As sign-in protections have improved, the “low… Continue reading Hunting for Low and Slow Password Sprays Using Machine Learning
A recurring challenge I’ve encountered over the years is finding the balance between cost and performance for SQL databases used by front end business teams. Business Users always want more memory and compute, IT Leadership always wants to mini… Continue reading Add an Azure SQL DB Turbo Button using Power Apps to Reduce Costs & Keep Users Happy
Check out this new series of demo videos for Node.js developers. These demos from Azure engineering help you learn how to deploy a Node web app to App Service using VSCode, how to use Azure Monitor to analyze logs and metrics, and o… Continue reading Watch new demos of how-to deploy Node.js apps to Azure App Service
This post was co-authored by Ramachandran G, Sr Software Eng Manager, Azure Data Explorer.
What is Protobuf?
When we serialize, we’re converting from an in-memory representation of data that’s good for analysis and/or computation into a fo… Continue reading Ingesting Protobuf data from Kafka to Azure Data Explorer