Microsoft employees have erected a sustained sit‑in on the company’s Redmond campus, transforming a simmering internal dispute over Israel‑linked contracts into a high‑visibility standoff that raises fundamental questions about cloud ethics, corporate accountability, and the limits of vendor...
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India’s national cybersecurity agency has escalated an urgent warning about a wave of high‑severity Microsoft vulnerabilities that together pose significant risk to consumers, enterprises, and cloud customers — the advisory links Microsoft’s August security updates (including a publicly...
Microsoft’s Copilot may have closed an eye‑catching zero‑click hole, but a quieter — and arguably more dangerous — problem has been bubbling under the surface: Copilot and related AI components are not reliably creating the audit trails organizations depend on for compliance and forensics. That...
Microsoft has opened an externally supervised review after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s intelligence services used a bespoke environment running on Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse very large volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications — a development that...
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Hitachi Vantara’s entry of Virtual Storage Platform One Software‑Defined Storage (VSP One SDS) into the Microsoft Azure Marketplace marks a concrete step toward simplifying hybrid cloud storage procurement and, according to vendor claims, cutting cloud storage costs substantially through...
A coordinated pair of stories surfaced this week that together sketch two urgent and contrasting dilemmas at the intersection of technology, power, and public life: investigative reporting that Israeli military intelligence has been using Microsoft’s Azure cloud to store and analyze massive...
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Marvell’s expanded collaboration with Microsoft — now supplying its LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to Microsoft Azure Cloud HSM — is more than a press release: it’s a strategic move that shores up Marvell’s position at the intersection of cloud security, confidential...
Microsoft’s decision to standardize Azure Cloud HSM on Marvell’s LiquidSecurity hardware marks a decisive shift in how hyperscalers are architecting cryptographic assurance at cloud scale — pairing FIPS 140‑3 Level 3 certified, host‑attached PCIe HSM modules with a managed, customer‑owned...
Microsoft’s Azure Cloud HSM service will now run on Marvell’s LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs), a move that extends Marvell’s existing footprint across Azure Key Vault and Managed HSM and brings PCIe‑attached, FIPS‑validated, cloud‑optimized HSM hardware into Microsoft’s...
Microsoft’s decision to expand Azure’s reliance on Marvell’s LiquidSecurity hardware security modules for Azure Cloud HSM is a clear, strategic signal that hyperscalers are betting on cloud‑native, PCIe‑attached HSM architectures to deliver higher density, better power efficiency, and broad...
Microsoft has expanded a major backend partnership with Marvell: the Marvell LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs will now power Microsoft Azure Cloud HSM in addition to their existing role behind Azure Key Vault and Azure Key Vault Managed HSM. The move extends Marvell’s...
TrustedTech’s decision to rebrand and recast itself as a Microsoft-first cloud and AI systems integrator marks a deliberate pivot from transactional licensing to outcome-driven services aimed squarely at Copilot deployments, Azure migrations, and managed security — a move the company unveiled in...
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Microsoft has selected Marvell’s LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to power Azure Cloud HSM, extending an existing Marvell–Azure relationship and bringing PCIe‑attached, FIPS 140‑3 Level 3‑validated HSM technology into Microsoft’s single‑tenant cloud HSM clusters for...
Microsoft's Azure Cloud HSM service will now run on Marvell’s LiquidSecurity hardware security modules (HSMs), a move that extends an existing Marvell–Azure relationship and brings PCIe‑based, FIPS 140‑3 Level 3‑certified, high‑density cryptographic hardware into Microsoft’s single‑tenant HSM...
Microsoft has selected Marvell’s LiquidSecurity family of hardware security modules (HSMs) to power its Azure Cloud HSM offering — a move that consolidates Marvell’s role across Azure’s key management portfolio and brings FIPS 140‑3 Level 3‑certified, high‑density PCIe HSMs into Microsoft’s...
Microsoft’s decision to expand its use of Marvell’s LiquidSecurity hardware security modules into the Azure Cloud HSM offering marks a notable vote of confidence in cloud-optimized HSM architectures — and sharpens the competitive contours of the HSM-as-a-service market as enterprise customers...
Microsoft’s move to let Windows 10 be deployed as a cloud-streamed OS through Azure-powered virtualization services marks a decisive step in putting the full Windows desktop inside enterprise cloud operations—and it changes how IT teams should think about provisioning, licensing, and security...
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Microsoft Teams is getting a tighter security posture: Microsoft is rolling out new protections that will block weaponizable file types in chats and channels, scan and warn about malicious URLs at the time of delivery and click, and extend administrative control by integrating Teams with the...
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Microsoft has opened an “urgent” external review after investigative reporting alleged that Israel’s Unit 8200 used a bespoke environment on Microsoft Azure to ingest, store and analyse vast volumes of intercepted Palestinian communications — claims that raise immediate questions about cloud...
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