Azure AD Identity Protection Public Preview and Azure Security Center Overview

Identity protection is now critical in today's world filled with numerous attacks, to identify and mitigate these issues, Organization's spend lot of effort and investment in the IT Security, even a small loop hole can allow cyber-attacks. Microsoft team is constantly investing more in building a secure Infrastructure and with this now, we have the new Azure Active Directory Identity Protection in public preview, Azure AD Identity Protection uses advance Machine Learning capabilities that analyze your environment and helps Organization's to secure and protect both Cloud and On-premises applications that uses Azure AD.

More Information is available in the below Offical Blog post: Azure AD Identity Protection is in public preview! (Whoop whoop!)

Read the Documentation here: Azure AD Identity Protection documentation

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Microsoft team recently announced an update to the public preview of Azure Active Directory Identity Protection that extends risk-based conditional access to federated identities.

Access here to know more: AzureAD Identity Protection adds support for federated identities!

Azure Security Center

Get to know about Azure Security Center, the latest security monitoring and management Solution for your cloud resources and is an essential part of Microsoft’s vision to deliver a holistic, agile security platform for today’s enterprise

Read here to know more: Azure Security Center now available

Access the Overview Video here: Azure Security Center Overview

Additionally get to know Security management in Azure

A Nice Blog post showing the significance of Azure Security Center - Detecting threats with Azure Security Center

Read the Whitepapers to understand Shared responsibility in Cloud Computing and Security response in the cloud here: Microsoft Incident Response and shared responsibility for cloud computing

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Download and read the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report to know how Microsoft is handling Security threats in today's cyber world.

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Read the below Blog post to understand how Microsoft team is protecting their identities

How we protect #AzureAD and Microsoft Account from lists of leaked usernames and passwords

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Access how Microsoft IT reveals its own Azure Security evolution & cloud mindset in their IT Showcase here: The cloud security mindset

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Announcing the new Azure Security Information Site - https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/security/

Stay tuned for more updates...