Azure updates

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.

• Virtual Machines
• Security
• Features

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.

• Security
• Features

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.

• Security
• Features

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.

• Application Gateway
• Web Application Firewall
• Security
• Features

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.

• Azure Container Apps
• Security
• Features

Public preview: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall

Resource Health and Embedded Firewall Workbooks are now in public preview.

• Azure Firewall
• Security
• Services
• Features

General availability: New Monitoring and Logging Updates in Azure Firewall

Structured Logs and Latency Probe Metric are now in general availability.

• Azure Firewall
• Security
• Services
• Features

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.

• Security
• Services
• Features

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 Firewall
• Security
• Services
• Features

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.

• Azure Red Hat OpenShift
• Security
• Features

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.

• Security
• Pricing & Offerings
• Features
• Compliance

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.

• Security
• Features

Public preview: Bring your own key on Ephemeral OS disk for AKS

Target availability: Q3 2023

You can now use your own keys to encrypt your ephemeral OS disks.

• Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Security
• Features

Public preview: Sensitive Data Protection for Application Gateway Web Application Firewall logs

Protect the sensitive data getting stored in your Web Application Firewall (WAF) logs using log scrubbing on Azure’s regional Web Application Firewall running on Application Gateway.

• Application Gateway
• Web Application Firewall
• Security
• Features

Generally available: Private Link support for Application Gateway

Application Gateway Private Link allows you to connect your workloads over a private connection spanning across VNets and subscriptions

• Application Gateway
• Azure Private Link
• Security
• Services
• Features

Virtual Network Integration Support (Public Preview) for Azure Stream Analytics

ASA is thrilled to announce public preview of Virtual Network Integration support for Azure Stream Analytics! 

• Security
• Microsoft Build
• Features