Despite the relative maturity of the Web, it is still the most hostile environment imaginable. Given the vast array of threats that exist online, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ...

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Windows Azure Web Sites -- the official name for the new Azure hosting framework codenamed "Antares"-- seems to have attracted some interesting backers, even though it's only in test form. Microsoft ...

Microsoft has announced that the Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection feature has reached general availability on Azure Application Gateway starting this week. Azure Web Application Firewall ...

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Two flaws in Microsoft’s cloud-based Azure App Services could have allowed server-side forgery request (SSFR) and remote code-execution attacks. Researchers have disclosed two flaws in Microsoft’s ...

This category includes Web hosting services or Internet hosting services that allow for the widespread dissemination of websites across the World Wide Web. All kinds of websites are supported via this ...

A web application firewall (WAF) is a critical component of an enterprise security infrastructure, providing a key security layer for web-facing applications and APIs. As web applications mature and ...

Amazon Web Services is the consensus leader of the IaaS public cloud computing market according to industry watchers, but they credit Microsoft for closing the gap with Azure and say Google with its ...