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Cloud-Native SIEM and Built-in AI for Analytics with Azure Sentinel

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Microsoft has gradually been transforming itself into a cloud and security company over the last few years. Now in public preview, Azure Sentinel brings many of the security features Microsoft uses to secure its own cloud environments to organizations that need to collect data from on-premise systems and cloud apps.

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Windows Containers: Understanding Images and Layers

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While it is easy to grasp the basic idea of how containers work and how they differ from virtual machines (VM), understanding container images and layers is a bit more complicated.

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows – August 2019

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This month Windows 19H2 edges closer to a final build, Citrix releases Managed Desktops based on Windows Virtual Desktop, Windows updates break Visual Basic 6 apps, and Microsoft prepares to disable VBScript in IE11 on Windows 7 and 8.x.

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Citrix Managed Desktops Generally Available

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Back at its Ignite conference in September 2018, Microsoft announced Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) and Citrix said that it would be creating a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution based on WVD.

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Windows Defender Certified by AV-Test and Outperforms Much of the Competition

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In something of a turnaround, Windows Defender is now matching and outperforming many free and commercial antivirus solutions.

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Report Says Microsoft Is Certifying Insecure Drivers

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A new report by firmware and hardware security research company Eclypsium says that 40 drivers it tested from different vendors were all found to contain security flaws and all were certified by Microsoft.

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