CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 14, 2025

In his latest AI positioning statement, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Monday that everything must revolve around Azure. Analysts, however, agreed that the statement reflected no meaningful changes to Microsofts AI strategy. IDC sees the move likely shifting many Microsoft offerings around in terms of internal structure.

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Network World

JULY 13, 2023

Microsoft is jumping into the competitive Secure Service Edge ( SSE ) arena with a software package aimed at protecting its Windows and Azure customers as well as other cloud-based enterprise resources. To read this article in full, please click here

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Network World

OCTOBER 11, 2024

It cited the MGM Resorts data breach, the Microsoft email hack, and the FBot malware targeting web servers, cloud services, and software-as-a-service, which achieves persistency and propagates on AWS via AWS IAM (identity and access management) users as three examples of how the keys could be abused.

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The defining functions of a SASE platform are to provide security and network access. Netskope today announced updates to its SASE platform, Netskope One, that focus on improving network visibility, user experience management, and security capabilities. Without a good user experience, you’re going to have a challenge,” he said.

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Network World

JULY 24, 2024

General availability of the Microsoft Entra Suite is expected to shake up the nascent SSE industry, putting particular pressure on smaller vendors. SSE – secure service edge – is a cloud-based way to deliver secure access to corporate systems, SaaS applications, and the Internet in general.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 20, 2023

Enterprise networks are undergoing a profound transformation. Traditional enterprise wide area networks, or WANs were designed primarily to connect remote branch offices directly to the data center. For example, SD-WAN technology makes it possible for an enterprise employee to successfully connect to Microsoft 365 from home.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 26, 2023

The post Securing IoT with Microsoft Defender for IoT sensors appeared first on TechRepublic. Protecting the devices that run your production facilities is increasingly important. How can we secure single-purpose hardware?

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

BGP is infamously prone to configuration errors that can have consequences serious enough to temporarily disrupt parts of the Internet. BGP’s original design properties do not adequately address the threat to and resilience requirements of today’s internet ecosystem,” notes the roadmap fact sheet.

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Network World

MAY 17, 2024

In the latter case, Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), the routing protocol used by the global internet, is used to find the best path by weighing the latest network conditions based on reachability and routing information. BGP has been called the glue of the Internet and the postal service of the internet.

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Network World

AUGUST 28, 2024

Cisco is a dominant networking force — arguably the most dominant — but it didn’t get there alone or overnight. Other significant acquisitions by Cisco include AppDynamics in 2017 for application performance monitoring and Acacia Communications in 2021 for optical networking.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

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Network World

JUNE 5, 2024

LAS VEGAS – Cisco put AI front and center at its Live customer conclave this week, touting new networking, management and security products, along with partnerships and investments it expects will drive enterprise AI deployments. “AI Think of the AI evolution as like the cloud transition “on steroids,” Robbins said.

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Network World

AUGUST 24, 2017

Many Internet of Things (IoT) product developers have ignored the traumatic early history of Microsoft Windows, Android and web platforms, and expoits of IoT devices — because software updates have not been designed in — are regularly reported. Also on Network World: How to improve IoT security +.

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Forrester IT

JUNE 22, 2020

Today, Microsoft announced that it has acquired Waltham, MA-based IoT and industrial control system (ICS) security vendor CyberX. While the purchase price was not disclosed, media reports are speculating that the purchase price was somewhere between $150M-$165M.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 16, 2024

Take the subject of this column’s screed: Microsoft Recall. Don’t be , says Microsoft. According to Microsoft, “… a would-be hacker would need to gain physical access to your device, unlock it and sign in before they could access saved screenshots.” Concerned about privacy lapses? What could possibly go wrong?

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Data Center Knowledge

JULY 15, 2013

Microsoft » Popular. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers. The interior of a container packed with servers at a Microsoft data center in Chicago. Image: Microsoft Corp). The Internet disagrees, as our examination of Who Has the Most Servers?

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Network World

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Cisco is the dominant vendor in enterprise networking , and under CEO Chuck Robbins, it continues to shake things up. Cisco ties AppDynamics to Microsoft Azure for cloud application management Aug. 30, 2024 : Cisco is now offering its AppDynamics application management suite as part of Microsoft Azure cloud services.

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Network World

JUNE 6, 2024

In 2019, Gartner created the term SASE to describe a cloud-based service that combines networking and security to give remote workers safe access to internet-based resources. The other side is networking, which, unfortunately, still tends to be overlooked too often. But both terms are relevant today.

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Network World

MAY 14, 2017

Microsoft on Sunday said a software vulnerability stolen from the U.S. Referring to the attack as a “wake-up call,” Microsoft’s President and Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith wrote in a blog post that governments have "to consider the damage to civilians that comes from hoarding these vulnerabilities and the use of these exploits."

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Network World

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Microsoft has patched 68 vulnerabilities in Windows, Office, Edge, Internet Explorer and SQL Server, two of which have already been exploited by attackers and three that have been publicly disclosed. Six of the bulletins are rated critical and eight are rated important.

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GeekWire

JULY 22, 2021

Some of the sites hit by a widespread internet outage Thursday morning, as shown by the spike in reports as indicated by the red lines on Downdetector.com. An internet outage hit some of the largest online sites in the United States, according to reports tracked by outage monitoring site Downdetector.com.

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CTOvision

MAY 12, 2021

Critics of IBM say the American tech icon went the hybrid cloud way because it lost the fight to become a public cloud hyper-scaler to Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. Hybrid clouds are a combination of privately-owned computer servers and networks and machines and services rented off the internet.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Google's Project Zero team has disclosed a potential arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Internet Explorer because Microsoft has not acted within Google's 90-day disclosure deadline.

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CIO Business Intelligence

DECEMBER 30, 2024

AI will become accessible and ubiquitous When the internet first arrived, early adopters needed to learn HTML if they wanted to have a website, recalls Rakesh Malhotra, principal at Ernst & Young. Users needed modems and special software and accounts with internet providers. Microsoft cant make a custom version just for me.

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) is seen as profitable and critical to business success and is creating opportunities to leverage more advanced cloud and networking technologies, according to Microsoft’s new report IoT Signals.

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CIO Business Intelligence

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The attack surface now extends to home offices, cloud applications, and public clouds, and there is an ever-increasing risk of lateral threat movement within highly interconnected hub-and-spoke networks protected by castle-and-moat security models. A large enterprise with a hybrid network requires modern technology to secure it.

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Network World

MARCH 14, 2017

Be prepared for restarts and big day of patching after Microsoft skipped Patch Tuesday in February. For March, Microsoft released 18 security bulletins split into nine critical and nine important security updates. Rated critical MS17-006 patches 12 security issues in Internet Explorer.

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Network World

JANUARY 28, 2025

Network outages continued to plague organizations of all sizes in 2024, with major incidents exposing vulnerabilities in digital infrastructure and the growing complexity of IT environments, according to ThousandEyes recent Internet outage report. Cause: A problem inside Microsofts own network affected the collaboration service.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 4, 2021

[Editor’s Note: Independent security consultant Christopher Budd worked previously in Microsoft’s Security Response Center for 10 years.]. But it could have been worse: the internet could have crashed, or not been there at all. Just look at how much of our lives shifted to the internet as a result of the pandemic.

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Network World

JUNE 20, 2024

It calls this detector Sonaris, a name apparently borrowed from IT-themed TV series Halt and Catch Fire, which featured a computer network exploration tool with the same name. This capability enables AWS to respond swiftly and effectively to malicious attempts, protecting its customers and enhancing the overall security of the internet.”

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CTOvision

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Without its ailing handset business, Nokia is now a mobile networks firm that competes with Huawei Technologies Co. … It confirmed that it expects net sales for its main networks unit to grow on a year-on-year basis in the second half … Read more on Wall Street Journal. and Ericsson.

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CIO Business Intelligence

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

En ese momento, Internet ya existía desde hacía décadas, pero la web se había popularizado hacía poco. Algunos de los navegadores con mayor participación en el mercado están profundamente integrados con los entornos de un proveedor, como Google Chrome y Microsoft Edge. Problemas políticos de TI. Cumplimiento normativo.

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Network World

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Microsoft today took the unprecedented step of postponing an entire month's slate of security updates for Windows and its other products just hours before the patches were to begin rolling out to customers. "We Today was set as Patch Tuesday, the monthly release of security fixes from Microsoft. PT (11:22 ET).

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CTOvision

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Luth Research will not go through your private messages or your personal social networking sites, nor will it collect any data you send through a secure private network. The information collected consists of search entries, tracking of website visits, as well as time you spend on your social networking sites and location details.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 24, 2025

GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Editors Note: Microsoft @ 50 is a year-long GeekWire project exploring the tech giants past, present, and future, recognizing its 50th anniversary in 2025. Learn more and register here for our special Microsoft @ 50 event, March 20, 2025, in Seattle. Bill Gates knew he would be judged.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JANUARY 21, 2025

By leveraging machine learning algorithms, AI can analyze user behavior and network traffic patterns, identifying anomalies that might indicate insider threats or other malicious activities. Perhaps one of the most anticipated applications of AI in cybersecurity is in the realm of behavioral analytics and predictive analysis.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Ghost ransomware actors, identified as operating from China, have been targeting unpatched systems and stolen credentials to infiltrate networks, encrypt data, and demand ransom payments. Network segmentation and monitoring Segment networks to prevent lateral movement. Use Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.

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