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Azure Databricks now available the in Switzerland North
Azure Databricks is now available in the Swiss Azure data centres, which marks another milestone on the way to digitising Switzerland
Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets and certificates
Get a deeper view into your organisation’s security posture, configure daily automated audits and start enforcing best practices in under five minutes.
Azure Site Recovery - TLS Certificate Changes
Assess and mitigate the impact of Azure TLS certificate updates on your Site Recovery environment
September 2020
Azure Security Center—News and updates for September 2020
New enhancements and updates that were made to Azure Security Center in September 2020.
Azure Arc enabled data services now in preview
Run Azure Arc enabled data services on premises on any infrastructure of your choice with Azure cloud benefits like elastic scale, unified management, and a cloud billing model while staying always current.
IoT Security updates for September 2020
New Azure IoT Security product updates include improvements around monitoring, edge nesting and the availability of Azure Defender for IoT.
New Azure Orbital, ground station as a service, now in preview
Azure Orbital is a fully managed cloud-based ground station as a service that enables you to schedule contacts with your spacecrafts or satellites and directly ingest data in Azure using Orbital ground stations.
Protect both managed and unmanaged IoT/OT devices with Azure Defender for IoT
Azure Defender for IoT a rebranding of Azure Security Center for IoT is launching new capabilities from the CyberX acquisition to provide agentless security for unmanaged IoT/OT devices as well as managed devices connected to Azure IoT Hub.
Public preview: Azure Arc enabled SQL Server
Public preview of Azure Arc enabled SQL Server extends power of Azure to SQL servers hosted on-premises or in other public clouds.
Azure Security Center – News and updates for August 2020
New enhancements and updates that were made to Azure Security Center in August 2020.
August 2020
Azure Security Center – News and updates for July 2020
New enhancements and updates were made to Azure Security Center in July 2020.
July 2020
Azure Security Center—News and updates for June 2020
New enhancements and updates were made to Azure Security Center in June 2020.
June 2020
Azure Automation updated DNS records
Target availability: Q2 2020
To support new features in Azure Automation, such as Azure Private Links, the automation URLs have been updated. Instead of region-specific URLs, there are now account-specific URLs.
May 2020
Azure Security Center – News and updates for May 2020
See the list of enhancements and updates made to Azure Security Center in May 2020.
Azure Log Analytics agent for Windows SHA-2 signing date has been extended
Target availability: Q3 2020
The Azure Log Analytics agent for Windows will begin to use SHA-2 signing exclusively on 17 Aug. 2020. This change requires action only if you’re running the agent on a legacy OS version.
New Azure VMware Solution is now in preview
The new Azure VMware Solution is a first-party Microsoft Azure Compute service that enables customers to run VMware natively on Azure. The new service is directly operated, delivered and supported by Microsoft, and is endorsed by VMware through a direct cloud service provider partnership agreement.
Microsoft Threat Protection will automatically turn on for eligible licence holders
From 1 June 2020, Microsoft will automatically enable Microsoft Threat Protection features when eligible customers visit the Microsoft 365 security center.
April 2020
Azure Service Health security advisories are now available
Azure Service Health now has security advisories. These are a notification type that will communicate urgent security-related information affecting your Azure workloads.
Azure Security Center – Dynamic compliance packages now generally available
The Azure Security Center regulatory compliance dashboard now includes dynamic compliance packages (now generally available) to track additional industry and regulatory standards.
Identity recommendations now included in Azure Security Center free tier
Security recommendations for identity and access on the Azure Security Center free tier are now generally available. This is part of the effort to make the cloud security posture management (CSPM) features completely free. Until now, these recommendations were only available on the standard pricing tier.
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