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General availability: Improvements in Azure Key Vault
Improvements in Azure Key Vault: FIPS 140-2 Level 3, PCI DSS and PCI 3DS certified for all customers.
November 2023
General Availability of Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider
Azure App Configuration Kubernetes Provider lets you centrally configure the applications running in Kubernetes clusters. The latest version offers workload identity authentication in the provider and dynamic refresh of the configuration data.
June 2023
General availability of Azure Front Door integration with managed identities
Azure Front Door supports using managed identity to access Key Vault without the need to generate, store, and rotate secrets. This is a secure service to service authentication method to enhance security.
Public preview: Azure Front Door Standard/Premium in Azure Government
Azure Front Door Standard/Premium is the new Azure native, modern cloud content delivery network (CDN) catering to both dynamic and static content delivery acceleration with enhanced security and a simple and predictable pricing model.
November 2022
Public preview: Azure Front Door integration with managed identities
Azure Front Door Standard and Premium supports enabling managed identities for Azure Front Door to access Azure Key Vault.
April 2022
Generally available: Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault
Key Vault now enables you to automatically rotate keys for encryption of your data.
March 2022
Generally available: The new Azure Front Door – a modern cloud CDN service
Azure Front Door is a modern cloud CDN that enables you to accelerate the delivery of applications, APIs, and content on Azure or anywhere at scale.
Public preview: Azure Chaos Studio Key Vault and Classic Cloud Services faults
Azure Chaos Studio has new faults available for denying access to a Key Vault and shutting down a Classic Cloud Service.
January 2022
General availability: Azure Key Vault increased service limits for all its customers
Azure Key Vault service throughput limits have been increased for each vault, driving higher performance for your applications.
December 2021
Automated key rotation in Azure Key Vault is now in public preview
Automated key rotation in Key Vault allows security officers to improve data security.
October 2021
General availability: Azure governance policy for Azure Key Vault
Integration of Azure Key Vault with Azure Policy has reached general availability and is now ready for production use. Azure Policy provides the ability to place guardrails on Key Vault and its objects to ensure they are compliant with your organizations security recommendations and compliance regulations. It allows you to perform real time policy-based enforcement and on-demand compliance assessment of existing secrets in your Azure environment.
July 2021
General availability: Azure Security Center updates for June 2021
New enhancements and updates released in Azure Security Center in June 2021.
June 2021
Azure Key Vault Managed HSM is generally available
Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (hardware security module) is now generally available. Managed HSM offers a fully managed, highly available, single-tenant, high-throughput, standards-compliant cloud service to safeguard cryptographic keys for your cloud applications, using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs.
May 2021
General availability: Azure Key Vault SLA raised to 99.99%
Key Vault is now being offered at a 99.99% availability SLA, an improvement over our previous 99.9% SLA.
February 2021
Azure role-based access control (RBAC) for Azure Key Vault data plane authorization is now generally available
Achieve unified management and access control across Azure resources, Azure Key Vault and keys, certificates, and secrets.
October 2020
Azure Policy for Key Vault now supports keys, secrets, and certificates
Get a deeper view into your organization's security posture, configure daily automated audits, and start enforcing best practices in under 5 minutes.
Azure Key Vault Event Grid integration is now available
Azure Key Vault is now an events publisher with Azure Event Grid, enabling developers to subscribe to events about keys, certificates, and secrets changes.
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 Key Vault Managed HSM available in public preview
A new key management offering is now available in public preview: Azure Key Vault Managed HSM (hardware security model). Azure Key Vault Managed HSM offers a fully managed, highly available, single-tenant, standards-compliant cloud service that enables you to safeguards cryptographic keys for your cloud applications, using FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated HSMs.
General availability of Azure Monitor for Key Vault and Azure Cache for Redis
Azure Monitor for Key Vault and Azure Monitor for Azure Cache for Redis provide out of the box insights for these resources using platform telemetry.
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