More and more organizations are moving SharePoint and SQL workloads into Microsoft Azure in the cloud because of the simplicity of spinning up servers in the cloud, adding more capacity, decreasing ...

Microsoft is giving database administrators working with Azure SQL Database a new suite of security tools to check out. A new Always Encrypted feature will be available as a public beta by the end of ...

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One year on from reaching general availability, Microsoft's Azure-based Sentinel security system now brings new user and entity behavioral analytics to help detect unknown and insider threats faster.

It’s the first time Microsoft security researchers have seen attackers try to hop from a SQL Server instance into a cloud environment. Hackers attempted to move from a compromised SQL Server instance ...

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Microsoft has patched a major issue in Azure Service Fabric affecting Linux clusters on the cloud. The service is the backbone of many Microsoft projects including Cortana/Bing and Skype for Business.

Microsoft is offering users on Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 a way to keep getting security updates for free after the official support period ends. Read also: Here's ...