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Pentagon Awards JEDI Cloud Contract to Microsoft for the Second Time

Written by Frank Konkel & Aaron Boyd, September 4th, 2020 The Pentagon awarded its Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure cloud computing contract Friday to Microsoft. The decision follows a 10-month legal battle initiated by Amazon Web Services after the Pentagon selected Microsoft in October 2019 for the contract, worth up to $10 billion over the next 10 years ...

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What is PIM (Privileged Identity Management) and Why Do I Need It?

Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is essentially an Identity Assessment Management (IAM) service that is based in the Cloud.  Through this mechanism, you can create specific user group roles for each department in your company. From there, you can then assign the appropriate levels of rights and permissions for all of the employees, so that ...

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An Introduction To The SOAR Methodology

In today’s business world, there is no doubt that the IT and Network Infrastructures of all sorts of businesses are starting to become complex, even if they have a Cloud-based platform, such as that of Microsoft Azure.  The need to centralize all monitoring of log events and the collection of mission-critical information and data is ...

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Federal Agencies Warn North Korean Hackers Have Upgraded Their Cash-Out Schemes

Written by Mariam Baksh – August 26th, 2020 A faction of North Korea’s General Reconnaissance Bureau associated with the methodical infiltration of financial institutions to steal money from around the world is back in action with improved capabilities, according to a technical advisory by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, along with the Treasury Department, U.S. ...

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New data from Microsoft shows how the pandemic is accelerating the digital transformation of cyber-security

Written by Andrew Conway General Manager, Microsoft Security - August 19th, 2020 The importance of cybersecurity in facilitating productive remote work was a significant catalyst for the two years-worth of digital transformation we observed in the first two months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In this era of ubiquitous computing, security solutions don’t just sniff out threats, ...

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Microsoft’s AI for Health supports COVID-19 vaccine development

Given the global urgency of the COVID-19 pandemic, Microsoft's AI for Health program has stepped in to support the development and potential deployment of Vaxine's COVAX-19 vaccine with a philanthropic grant. Vaxine Pty Ltd, a biotechnology company based in South Australia, uses computational and artificial intelligence (AI)-based technologies to accelerate pandemic vaccine and drug development with ...

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Cyber Readiness Checklist

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End users can now report “This wasn’t me” for unusual sign-in activity

Howdy folks, I’m excited to announce the General Availability of Azure AD My Sign-Ins—a new feature that allows enterprise users to review their sign-in history to check for any unusual activity. As we discussed in the Public Preview blog post, the My Sign-Ins page empowers users to see: If anyone is trying to guess their password. ...

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Announcing data import from PDF documents

We are excited to announce a new and exciting update to Get & Transform Data capabilities in Excel – PDF data connector! This has been one of the top requests from you and we heard you. With the new From PDF connector you can connect to PDF files, and use the included data from the ...

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KAMIND IT Ranks on Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies In America

Inc. Magazine Unveils Its Annual List of America’s Fastest-Growing Private Companies—the Inc. 5000 For the 2nd Time, KAMIND IT Inc. Appears on the Inc. 5000, Ranking No. 3409 With Three-Year Revenue Growth of 110.08 Percent NEW YORK, August 12, 2020 – Inc. magazine today revealed that KAMIND IT Inc. is No. 3409 on its annual Inc. 5000 list, ...

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