Share Your Expertise: Help Shape Our Network Practitioner Community
Hello Azure network practitioners, We’re working on refining our understanding of network practitioner personas and building stronger community engagement strategies for networking practitioners. Your insights as an MVP are invaluable to this effort. Could you take a few minutes to complete this short survey? Your feedback will directly influence how we design future programs and resources for the community. 👉 https://forms.office.com/r/dfgXxNwQd9 Thank you for helping us make the Azure networking community even better! Best regards, Dan Product Marketing Manager, Identity & Network Access Growth
New Blog | Enhancing Your Azure Security: Azure DDoS Sentinel Solution and WAF Playbook Integration
In today's digital landscape, the rise of complex cyber threats poses a significant challenge for businesses relying on cloud-based services. Specifically, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are now often being used as a diversion in multi-layer attacks. To safeguard their applications and ensure uninterrupted service availability, organizations must deploy robust security solutions. Microsoft Azure offers powerful security solutions - Azure DDoS Protection, Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Microsoft Sentinel - to help you proactively defend your assets against such attacks. In this blog, we will explore how to integrate the Azure DDoS Sentinel Solution with the Azure WAF Playbook to enable a powerful automated detection and response system. By combining these two solutions, you can ensure a secure and uninterrupted experience for users, protect your services, and minimize the risk of DDoS attacks. Read the full blog: Enhancing Your Azure Security: Azure DDoS Sentinel Solution and WAF Playbook Integration - Microsoft Community HubNew Blog Post | Azure Firewall: New Monitoring and Logging Updates
Contributors: Eliran Azulai and Yuval Pery Monitoring, management, and innovation are core pillars of Azure Firewall. With this in mind, we are delighted to share the following new capabilities: Resource Health is now in public preview Embedded Firewall Workbooks is now in public preview Latency Probe Metric is now in general availability When you monitor the firewall, it’s the end-to-end experience that we continuously strive to improve. Our aim is to empower you to make informed decisions quickly and maximize your organization's security demands. Understanding the importance of having visibility into your network, this release focuses on making it easier for you to monitor, manage, and troubleshoot your firewalls more efficiently. Read the full blog here: Azure Firewall: New Monitoring and Logging Updates - Microsoft Community HubNew Blog | Taking Azure Firewall IDPS on a Test Drive
Written by Gopikrishna Kannan (Head of Products: Azure Firewall and Firewall Manager) Intrusion detection and prevention (IDPS) is an advanced threat prevention mechanism supported by the Azure Firewall Premium SKU. Unlike simple network filtering, IDPS matches traffic patterns to a set of known malicious signatures. Azure Firewall supports more than 60,000 malicious signatures which are updated in real time. These signatures apply when malicious patterns are detected under the right conditions. The conditions include traffic direction (inbound or outbound) and network scope (private network or public network). Below are examples to validate IDPS configuration in your environment. Read the full blog here: Taking Azure Firewall IDPS on a Test Drive - Microsoft Community Hub
