December 10, 2025
[Azure Updates] The Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 is a US government standard that defines minimum security requirements for cryptographic modules in information technology products […]
December 5, 2025
[Azure Updates] The Azure MCP (Model Context Protocol) Server provides a streamlined approach for managing Azure resources—including Azure confidential ledger—through natural language prompts. This feature allows […]
December 3, 2025
Welcome everyone to my contribution to this year’s Festive Tech Calendar. Thanks, as always, to the event organisers who put this event together. It’s always great […]
November 25, 2025
[Azure Updates] Announcing Azure Bastion now supports Microsoft Entra ID authentication for RDP connections to Windows VMs directly in the portal. This update brings two key […]
November 20, 2025
[Azure Updates] Azure Application Gateway has introduced general availability support for TLS and TCP protocol termination. This enhancement enables you to load balance and securely process […]
November 19, 2025
[Azure Updates] With Microsoft Defender for Cloud and GitHub Advanced Security, protect cloud-native applications across the full app lifecycle from code to cloud. This natively integrated […]
November 19, 2025
[Azure Updates] Slow start is now generally available as a load balancing algorithm in Application Gateway for Containers. This feature improves stability and performance during backend […]
November 19, 2025
[Azure Updates] Announcing the public preview of the HTTP DDoS Ruleset for Application Gateway WAF v2. HTTP-layer DDoS attacks remain a leading cause of application downtime, […]
November 19, 2025
[Azure Updates] Application Gateway for Containers now supports integration with Istio service mesh through an optional service mesh extension. This feature simplifies secure north-south communication between […]
November 19, 2025
[Azure Updates] Announcing the preview of JSON Web Token (JWT) validation in Azure Application Gateway — enabling authentication and token validation right at the Application gateway […]
November 19, 2025
[Azure Updates] Announcing a new mTLS enhancement in Azure Application Gateway for backend applications that perform client certificate and authorization header validation at the backend while […]
November 19, 2025
[Azure Updates] Introducing guardrails for agents in Microsoft Foundry Control Plane. Formerly called content filters, guardrails can now be applied at the agent level rather than […]