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General Availability: Malware Scanning in Defender for Storage
Target availability: Q3 2023
Malware Scanning in Defender for Storage enables organizations to detect and prevent malware distribution events with content scanning upon upload and near real-time malware detection powered by Microsoft Defender Antivirus technologies.
General availability: Azure Backup support for Azure Files in China North2, China East 2, China North 3, and China East 3
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Backup now supports Azure Files in China North2, China East 2, China North 3, and China East 3
General availability: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall
Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) using log scrubbing on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.
August 2023
Azure Firewall Single-Click Upgrade and Downgrade is now in general availability
This feature allows you to upgrade your firewall without service downtime, with a single click of a button.
Azure Firewall: Poland Central Region is now in general availability
Azure Firewall is now generally available in the Poland Central region.
Azure Firewall: Explicit Proxy is now in public preview
This configuration allows traffic from the sending application to be directed to the private IP address of the firewall, facilitating direct egress from the firewall without the need for a UDR.
Azure Firewall: Auto-Learn SNAT routes feature is now in public preview
Azure Firewall can now learn address ranges and automatically configure them to be excluded from SNAT, to reduce time and complexity spent manually defining SNAT private ranges.
Generally Available: Trusted launch as default for VMs deployed through the Azure portal
Trusted launch is now enabled by default for VMS deployed through the Azure portal, enhancing the foundational security of these VMs.
Public Preview: Azure Container Apps supports environment level mTLS encryption
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now encrypt traffic transmitted between applications within an environment using mTLS.
Public preview: Azure Container Apps supports additional TCP ports
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now run applications that accept TCP connections on multiple ports.
Public preview: Rate-limit rules for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall
Protect applications from abnormally high levels of traffic with rate-limit rules on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.
Generally available: Azure Key Vault references for secrets in Azure Container Apps
Target availability: Q3 2023
You can now use Azure Key Vault references to access your secrets in Azure Container Apps.
Public preview: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall
Resource Health and Embedded Firewall Workbooks are now in public preview.
General availability: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall
Structured Logs and Latency Probe Metric are now in general availability.
Public Preview: Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment
Azure Chaos Studio has User-Assigned Managed Identity and Custom Role Assignment.
General availability: Illumio for Microsoft Azure Firewall
Illumio for Azure Firewall enables organizations to understand application traffic and dependencies and apply consistent protection across environments - limiting exposure, containing breaches, and improving efficiency.
Azure Red Hat OpenShift August 2023 updates
Target availability: Q3 2023
Azure Red Hat OpenShift is now DoD IL4 certified, allows you to deploy infrastructure nodes without an OpenShift subscription fee, and provides increased security by allowing private clusters without public IP.
Enhanced Security and Compliance add-on for Azure Databricks now Generally Available
Enhanced Security and Compliance (ESC) add-on helps simplify the complexity of meeting security and regulatory requirements for Azure Databricks customers.
July 2023
Updated default TLS policy for Azure Application Gateway
The default TLS policy for new deployments of Azure Application Gateway is now set to AppGwSslPolicy20220101.
Public Preview: Firmware analysis in Defender for IoT
Target availability: Q3 2023
The new firmware analysis feature in Defender for IoT enables security teams to get deeper visibility into IoT/OT devices by providing better insights into the foundational software they are built on.
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