Web Application Firewall
A cloud-native web application firewall (WAF) service that provides powerful protection for web apps.
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| 2/12/2026 |
Azure governance at scale is complex. Security teams manually review many resource types across multiple subscriptions. Finance can't track costs without tags. Compliance teams spend days...
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| 2/3/2026 |
Application Gateway Web Application Firewall (WAF) v2 now supports additional rate‑limiting GroupBy options based on the X‑Forwarded‑For (XFF) HTTP header. This enables customers running...
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| 2/3/2026 |
Introduction
Cloud-native applications often support critical business functions and are expected to stay available even when parts of the platform fail. Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) already...
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| 2/3/2026 |
A large enterprise customer adopting AI at scale typically needs three non‑negotiables in its AI foundation:
End‑to‑end tenant isolation across network, identity, compute, and data
Secure,...
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| 2/2/2026 |
Announcing the general availability of Default Rule Set (DRS) 2.2 for Web Application Firewall on Azure Application Gateway.The Azure-managed DRS provides active protection against common web...
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| 1/28/2026 |
If you operate Kubernetes at scale, you've felt it: "Ingress YAML sprawl", annotation archaeology, and the creeping sense that your edge configuration is one upstream change away from becoming...
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| 11/28/2025 |
This sample application demonstrates how to implement various AI scenarios on Azure App Service using Azure AI Foundry. It provides production-ready code that you can integrate into your existing...
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| 11/19/2025 |
Superior capacity, highest entity limits, unlimited included calls, and the most comprehensive set of features set the Premium v2 tier apart from other API Management tiers. Customers rely on the...
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| 11/18/2025 |
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, and traditional static controls...
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| 11/18/2025 |
Announcing a new mTLS enhancement in Azure Application Gateway for backend applications that perform client certificate and authorization header validation at the backend while still requiring...
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| 11/11/2025 |
Announcing the general availability of JavaScript (JS) challenge for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure
Front Door To strengthen bot mitigation strategies,
Azure WAF now introduces...
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| 11/10/2025 |
Announcing Azure
Web
Application Firewall (WAF) support for Azure
Application
Gateway for Containers is now generally available. Application Gateway for Containers is the
next evolution of...
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| 10/28/2025 |
Announcing the General Availability of CAPTCHA for Azure Web Application Firewall (WAF) with Azure Front Door.Modern web applications face evolving threats, including bots, web scrapers, and...
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| 10/23/2025 |
Why Azure Local?
Azure Local extends Azure to customer-owned infrastructure, enabling local execution of modern and traditional applications across distributed on-premises or edge locations....
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| 10/22/2025 |
Let’s pick up from where we left off in the previous post — Selecting the Right Agentic Solution on Azure - Part 1. Earlier, we explored a decision tree to help identify the most suitable Azure...
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| 10/20/2025 |
Azure Application
Gateway introduces two new PowerShell scripts to simplify migration from V1
(Standard or WAF) to V2 (Standard_V2 or WAF_V2) services. As V1 SKUs’ is scheduled to retire by...
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| 10/10/2025 |
Introduction
As organizations across industries race to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their business processes and realize tangible value, one question consistently arises — where...
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| 10/9/2025 |
Introduction
As organizations across industries race to integrate Artificial Intelligence (AI) into their business processes and realize tangible value, one question consistently arises — where...
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| 9/29/2025 |
Securing AI Workloads with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Purview and Sentinel in Azure Landing Zones
In this blog, we’ll cover:
Why AI Landing Zones matter.
Security threats specific to AI workloads.
Mapping Azure security services into AI Landing Zone design areas.
A reference architecture...
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| 9/25/2025 |
This architecture diagram illustrates a Microsoft Azure AI Landing Zone Pattern — a scalable, secure, and well-governed framework for deploying AI workloads across multiple subscriptions in an...
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