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    Enable Trusted Launch in-Place for Azure VMs: Secure Boot and vTPM

    Microsoft has quietly made one of the most practical security upgrades for Azure virtual infrastructure far easier to adopt: Trusted Launch can now be enabled in-place for many existing VMs and scale sets, reducing the migration friction that has kept foundational boot security from reaching...
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    OS Guard on Azure Linux: Immutable, Signed Container Hosts

    Microsoft’s recent push to harden Azure Linux with a new “OS Guard” capability marks a notable shift in how cloud providers are thinking about host-level protections for container workloads, combining run‑time immutability, code integrity checks, and mandatory access control into an opinionated...
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    Secure Boot, TPM 2.0, and GPT: Upgrading for Modern PC Gaming

    Modern PC shooters are raising the bar: several recent AAA titles now refuse to run on Windows 10 unless Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 are enabled, forcing many players to move from legacy BIOS/MBR setups to a UEFI/GPT configuration before they can even launch the game. (ea.com) Background / Overview...
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    Azure Per-Server HSM and Open RoT with PQC Accelerators

    Microsoft’s cloud team has quietly re-architected the silicon under Azure to treat nearly every element of a server as a discrete security boundary — and it's shipping that architecture at scale across new servers this year and into 2025. What started as a collection of academic and hyperscaler...
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    Azure Silicon-to-Systems Security: Hardware Roots, Attestation, and Supply-Chain Transparency

    Microsoft’s latest push to “harden Azure from silicon to systems” stitches together a clear thesis: security must be built into every layer of the cloud stack — starting in silicon and extending through firmware, host controllers, attestation, and immutable supply-chain evidence. The company’s...
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    Azure Hardware Security: Host HSMs and Caliptra RoT

    Microsoft’s presentation at Hot Chips 2025 pulled back the curtain on a quiet but pivotal shift in how Azure defends the cloud: security is moving from centralized, cluster-level appliances into the silicon and server chassis themselves, with the Azure Integrated HSM and companion custom silicon...
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    VAN9003 on Windows 11: Proven Fixes for Valorant's Vanguard Anti-Cheat

    The VAN 9003 crash that left many Valorant players staring at the message “This build of Vanguard is out of compliance with current system settings” proved to be less a single bug and more a collision of modern Windows security posture, anti‑cheat kernel drivers, and inconsistent platform...
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    Edge Canary Tests Passkey Roaming and Passwords and Passkeys Sync

    Microsoft Edge’s Canary channel has begun surfacing experimental controls that explicitly treat passkeys as first‑class syncable credentials in the browser, adding new flags labeled Passkey roaming and Passkey roaming management and settings, and exposing a combined “Passwords and passkeys” sync...
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    HID Unveils Crescendo Keys and EPM for Enterprise Passkeys with Entra ID

    HID is betting big on enterprise passkeys: the company has launched a refreshed line of FIDO‑certified Crescendo authenticators alongside a new Enterprise Passkey Management (EPM) service aimed at making large‑scale, phishing‑resistant sign‑ins easier to deploy and run. The August 5 announcement...
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