Cybersoccapital

  One of the biggest attack surfaces for workloads running in the public cloud is connections to and from the public internet. Our customers find it hard to know which  network security group (NSG)  rules should be in place to make sure that Azure workloads are only available to required source ranges. With the release of the adaptive network hardening feature, Azure Security Center learns the network traffic and connectivity patterns of your Azure workloads and provides you with NSG rule recommendations for your internet-facing virtual machines.  This helps you better configure your network access policies and limit your exposure to attacks, even when there are already filtering rules in place, as the filtering rules may be too permissive or the actual traffic flowing through the NSG is a subset of the NSG rules defined. In this case, you can further improve the security posture by hardening the NSG rules, based on the actual traffic patterns. Azure Security Center ...

  While cyber threats affect every organization and every individual, governments face unique challenges. The recent Executive Order on Strengthening the Cybersecurity of Federal Networks and Infrastructure represents a key example of the growing pressure on government agencies to increase their efforts around protecting highly sensitive data and systems. To help our customers address their security challenges, we are announcing the preview of  Azure Security Center  for Azure Government. Security Center delivers unified security management for hybrid cloud workloads, with continuous monitoring as well as security assessments and recommendations. Coupled with advanced threat protection to identify and mitigate risk and reduce exposure, this enables government cloud security teams to better protect their data, networks, and IT infrastructure from cyberattacks. With Security Center, government customers can more easily: Understand security state across on-premises and cloud...