Tag: Microsoft

May 9, 2019

Microsoft’s April 24 decision to remove the “Maximum Password Age” (forced expiration) default from Microsoft Windows has sparked a lot of discussion. The default (and recommended) maximum password age had been 45 to 60 days, depending on the OS version. […]

January 31, 2019

To encourage continuing development and secure connectivity for a diverse range of new internet of things devices, Microsoft has launched a public preview of its Azure IoT Hub Device Streams to help make it happen. An IoT Hub device stream […]

December 26, 2018

Email is one of the easiest ways that information can leak out of your organization. Microsoft Office 365 has data loss prevention (DLP) policies for certain subscription levels that, if set up properly, can help prevent data leakage. If you […]

December 4, 2018

Long ago, over eight years ago, Facebook wanted to issue your internet driver’s license. Thankfully that failed, but now Mastercard and Microsoft have teamed up for a new digital identity plan that would include a “universally-recognized digital identity” for every […]

October 11, 2018

TOKYO AND ESPOO, Finland-Following on a series of recent announcements regarding wireless in-car communications, Nokia Corp. and Land Rover said they jointly developed the Personal Telephone Integration system, an integrated automotive communications system especially for Land Rover vehicles. The system […]

October 11, 2018

The AV-TEST Institute recently tested the most popular Windows 10 client antivirus products on three primary criteria: protection, performance, and usability. Only five of the 18 products tested earned a perfect rating of 6 for each of those criteria: Bitdefender […]

September 11, 2018

Live media production facilities primarily use serial digital interface (SDI) for interconnections between media applications, media appliances and other bespoke media equipment. The transition from SDI to IP aids in replacing traditional SDI cables with Ethernet networking and necessitates media […]

April 6, 2018

One of the quickest ways to troll IT security professionals is to proclaim that either Microsoft Windows computers or Apple Macs have better security. In reality, both OSes are adequately secure when operated with their default security settings along with […]

March 29, 2018

Cisco Integrated System for Microsoft Azure Stack just keeps getting better. With this newest configuration, Cisco offers a wider range of storage flexibility. The all-flash option ships with solid-state drives, and NVMe PCIe composing the cache tier with 30, 45, […]

February 26, 2018

Google seems to be gunning for Microsoft again by going public with a vulnerability in Microsoft Edge before Microsoft could develop a patch.The flaw affects Microsoft’s Arbitrary Code Guard (ACG) which Microsoft described a year ago in a post about […]

February 13, 2018

With the new era of Windows as a service, Microsoft is rolling out changes to the operating system twice a year. Many of those changes will allow you to improve your security posture and offer more security choices. You no […]

January 17, 2018

Google announced Tuesday it is expanding its global infrastructure with the addition of three new submarine fiber-optic cables and five new cloud computing regions to be launched later this year. The five new areas Google is adding to its infrastructure […]

January 10, 2018

Office 365 users can now use Microsoft Teams to make and receive phone calls without switching to another app. On Dec. 13, Teams is taking the first steps in becoming the Skype for Business replacement, which Microsoft promised during its Ignite […]

December 7, 2017

PowerShell is rapidly becoming a weapon of choice for post-breach (infiltration) steps, used in many recent high profile breaches. PowerShell, according to Dave Kennedy, is “BASH for Windows” – it’s a scripting language and framework that in Windows is used […]

May 24, 2017

Microsoft is supporting the launch of a Wi-Fi network that utilizes television white spaces, to provide connectivity in rural southern Virginia. The “Homework Network” is being constructed by wireless internet service provider B2X Online using white space equipment from Adaptrum that […]

May 19, 2017

Ericsson said that it will further strengthen the global Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem with Microsoft by enabling enterprises to speed up the time it takes to launch mobile network-based IoT services. Ericsson IoT Accelerator allows enterprises to deploy their […]

May 3, 2017

It’s no secret that Microsoft’s Edge browser, the revamped browser that shipped with Windows 10 as a replacement for Internet Explorer, is struggling to gain any sort of traction. As IE fades rapidly, Google Chrome has been picking up share, […]

April 14, 2017

Ready to get your head around the cloud? Microsoft has rolled out a new, free tool to help you decide if your company should make the move. The Cloud Migration Assessment service walks you through an examination of your resources […]

December 8, 2016

The SharePoint community has reacted with enthusiasm to Microsoft’s roadmap for SharePoint 2016, even though much of it is familiar to anyone who’s been using SharePoint for a while. It’s so confusingly familiar, in fact, that you may find yourself […]

November 29, 2016

Microsoft’s Azure Stack is a new hybrid cloud platform product that allows you to bring nearly full public Azure functionality to your own on-premises data centers. So you get the power of the cloud and control of your database. It […]