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  1. Azure Linux 3.0 Adds Linux 6.12 LTS Kernel-HWE Option

    Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250910 adds an optional Linux 6.12 LTS hardware‑enablement (HWE) kernel, giving Azure customers a supported path to newer device drivers and platform improvements while keeping the existing Linux 6.6 LTS kernel available for conservative deployments. Background...
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  2. 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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  3. Microsoft Secure Boot Key Guidance: KEK CA Rollover and OEM Best Practices

    Microsoft’s new guidance for Secure Boot key creation and management sharpens the playbook OEMs and ODMs must follow to keep Windows devices secure at scale, and it arrives with concrete, time-sensitive actions: recommended key types and sizes, explicit lifecycle controls, and an urgent rolling...
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  4. Microsoft's Quantum Safe Program: From PQC Testing to Enterprise Migration by 2033

    Microsoft’s public roadmap for a quantum‑safe future is no longer a research manifesto: it’s a multi‑year engineering and procurement plan that maps how SymCrypt, Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365 and silicon will evolve to resist the cryptanalytic power of future quantum computers. The company has...
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  5. Azure Linux 3.0: Modern, Cloud-Native OS for AKS and WSL

    Azure Linux 3.0 has arrived and — quietly, deliberately — Microsoft has folded a modern, hardened, cloud-native Linux into the backbone of AKS, WSL, and a growing set of Azure services, shipping a new kernel, updated runtimes, multi-architecture builds and closer integration with cloud-native...
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  6. Advancing Security for Consumers and Enterprises at Every Layer of the Windows 10 Stack

    We are truly in the midst of a revolution of cyber threats and, to everyone’s frustration, attackers have had the advantage for quite some time. The adversaries that enterprises face today are increasingly well-funded and they are experts at breaching well-fortified environments and deriving...
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  7. The 802.11n mode of a third-party wireless network adapter is not used when FIPS mode is enabled on

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  8. "System cryptography: Use FIPS compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing" security s

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  9. The recovery password for Windows BitLocker is not available when FIPS compliant policy is set in Wi

    Explains that the recovery password for Windows BitLocker is not FIPS-compliant in Windows Vista, in Windows Server 2008, in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2. More...
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  10. "System cryptography: Use FIPS compliant algorithms for encryption, hashing, and signing" security s

    Explains how you can configure the negotiation of stronger, FIPS-compliant cryptography in Windows XP and in later operating systems by enabling certain security settings. Link Removed
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