A few new updates for Microsoft Defender for Cloud reaching GA. The ones I think are most interesting are: Azure Security Center and Azure Defender become Microsoft Defender for Cloud Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Linux now supported by Microsoft Defender for servers ∞ more info

Great new feature to effectively have an SFTP server without running a server. ∞ more info

Great article that summarises some of the things that Defender for Cloud (previously Azure Defender and Security Center) actually does. It’s time to understand how we can leverage modern technology to combat the attackers, but before we start thinking about the “How”, we need to be clear on “What". ∞ more info

deeper integration between Azure Purview and Power BI… the benefits of the Purview/Power BI integration, such as being able to search and browse Power BI assets, explore enhanced dataset metadata, trace end-to-end data lineage, and open Power BI to drill down on datasets for further analysis. ∞ more info

Great addition as part of a wider ransomware protection solution. Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is now available in preview. Immutable storage provides the capability to store data in a write once, read many (WORM) state. Once data is written, the data becomes non-erasable and non-modifiable, and you can set a retention period so that files can’t be deleted until after that period has elapsed. This preview is available in France and Canada regions....