With cyberattacks becoming more prevalent and sophisticated, Microsoft has officially launched its Advanced Threat Analytics (ATA) software designed to simplify IT security for enterprises on their own infrastructure. The product uses some of the fancy technology, like machine learning, that Microsoft uses to protect customers in its Azure cloud platform. Let's see what other good stuff it has put into ATA.
If you can't beat 'em, manage 'em. That's the apparent philosophy behind Microsoft's partnership with Samsung to offer Active Directory support in Samsung's KNOX managed Android platform.
This could make building software that uses Active Directory on Windows Azure a little easier: Microsoft is open sourcing its developer libraries for the platform.
Integration with Active Directory (AD) is a key selling point for Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud service, but managing multiple AD instances hasn't really been an option. The latest Azure updates introduce the ability to easily create new AD instances directly from the Azure console.
A seemingly minor but sensible update to the online sign-in page for Office 365: there are no longer separate sign-in options for 'Keep me signed in' and 'Remember me'. How many users would have been able to tell the difference?
Handy news for developers building Azure apps which use Azure Active Directory: you can now set up two-factor authentication for all users of those apps. Details at the AD blog.
Microsoft has released a Node.js library for the Azure version of Active Directory -- handy if you want to build apps using Node.js on Azure that can authenticate against AD. Hit the blog post for more details.
Microsoft has released a beta version of code to use Windows Azure Active Directory to authenticate users in Windows Store applications -- handy if you want to link corporate resources to 'modern' Windows apps. Details at the AD blog.
Our favourite file syncing service Dropbox has rebranded its business-focused service. Formerly known as Dropbox for Teams, the service has been renamed as Dropbox for Business. It's also adding a very handy feature: single sign-on so you can use your main network credentials rather than a separate account.
After almost seven years in development, Samba 4.0 was officially released in late 2012, adding Active Directory domain controller features to the popular interoperable file server solution. So what happens now?
