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How prepared is your organization to accelerate remediation and minimize disruption when a breach occurs? Let the experts at Server Consultancy Ltd help you improve your cyber resilience strategy by scheduling a complimentary cyber resiliency consultation. View: Cyber Resiliency Consultation

The EU's proposed Cyber Resilience Act (CRA), which aims to "bolster cybersecurity rules to ensure more secure hardware and software products," could have severe unintended consequences for open source software, according to leaders in the open source community. Read More...

Brian Behlendorf, OpenSSF GM, is laying out plans to fund open source supply chain security in a slowing economy and speak out against the EU's Cyber Resilience Act. Read this blog for insight. Read More...

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Microsoft is delivering innovative enhancements in Microsoft Teams focused on improving audio and video challenges through AI and machine learning. Read the blog to gain insight on the new improvements. Read More...

When Greggs bakery chain needed a toolset to simplify managing a hybrid environment built from acquisitions, it found the secret sauce in Microsoft Azure Arc. Read the customer story to learn how the +80-year-old company benefits from a less complex and more secure hybrid and multi cloud environment.

Longtime Microsoft veteran Pete Apple, a principal service engineer in Microsoft Digital, discusses how the company has benefitted from moving to the cloud and running on Microsoft Azure. Watch the video to gain insight on lessons learned about easy wins, top security considerations and best practices, cloud optimization approaches, segmentation, iterative processes and more.

The oil and gas industry uses a variety of complex systems and technologies that are becoming increasingly vulnerable to cyberattacks. Now, through the Cyber Resilience Pledge, more than 20 global CEOs have committed to work together to improve cyber resilience across the ecosystem. Read about their collective efforts in this Journal of Petroleum Technology blog post. Read More...

The unexpected can happen at any time – so now’s the time to protect your business. We’re here to support you with resources at every stage of your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning. When you sign up for our mailing list, we’ll help you learn more about BCDR with Azure, and so much more. We’ve got your back. Let’s stay connected! Read More...

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Curious to see where, and how, the Microsoft Cloud operates? The video we've included here takes you behind the scenes to Microsoft's operations rooms where highly trained technicians and AI monitor the data center's critical infrastructure. Customers like you expect a resilient and secure computing environment. Microsoft helps us meet your expectations with teams of cyber security experts monitoring trillions of threat signals daily, as well as software engineers worldwide who track response times and performance as well as power, cooling and other data center systems. Watch the video. Reply to this email to discuss how our team of Microsoft experts can help you benefit from a secure, resilient computing environment in the Microsoft Cloud.

Despite escalating cyberattacks, many businesses are reducing security spending as part of overall cost cutting initiatives in a time of economic uncertainty. But the wrong cuts could leave you vulnerable to attacks with devastating financial implications. We can help you put together a cost-effective cybersecurity plan that will keep your business safe. Book your free consultation today. View: Planning a cybersecurity budget—free consultation

Healthcare information technology solutions provider Cerner wanted a hybrid work approach, using tools that would combine the best of both worlds and create a flexible workplace that reflects the way people want to work today. Read the customer story to learn how Microsoft answered this call. Read More...

The past three years – thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic – have revealed just how fragile many of our systems are. Business leaders are turning their focus to business resilience. What is resilience? How do you manage and measure it? And how can you build a more resilient enterprise? Read this Harvard Business Review article outlining the steps to make your business more resilient, and why it’s well worth your time, energy, and finances. Read More...

The uncertain economy has hit cruise company Carnival and logistics giant FedEx in very different ways. Their respective cybersecurity chiefs discuss what that means for their budgets. Read More...

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What does a productive #hybridwork environment look like to you? Comment to let us know your thoughts and contact a Server Consultancy Ltd @Microsoft #hybridwork solutions expert to help you create it. #WorkTrends #FutureOfWork

Organizations need to be able to communicate and collaborate at work in a way that is simple, flexible and effective. Microsoft Teams continues to provide exactly that and has added Live Captions. Now, Teams on Azure Virtual Desktop can detect what's being said and who's saying it in real-time captions. Read the blog to learn how this feature enhances the experience of team members who prefer visual cues when collaborating and ensures everyone can follow the conversation effectively.  Read More...

When pharmaceutical firm Sanofi decided to move off its on-premises infrastructure, because it was limiting Sanofi's ability to innovate and respond quickly to business needs, the company opted for a hybrid cloud strategy. With help from its partner Mobiz, Sanofi settled on a digital transformation plan that included migrating more than 15,000 servers and 1,800 apps over the next few years to Microsoft's Azure cloud platform. The results? For one, Sanofi has experienced fewer outages and faster recovery times, reducing their mean time to recovery (MTTR) by 300-500 percent. Overall, these improvements allow Sanofi to manufacture and deliver high-quality medicine without interruption. Read how they did it here. Read More...

With the threat of recession looming, chief information security officers (CISOs) will increasingly see cybersecurity budgets constrained. So how can companies focus their limited cybersecurity investments on the controls that matter most? This article breaks cybersecurity investments into three categories: 1) controls that defend against threats in a particularly impactful way, 2) measures that validate that these controls are operating as intended and 3) capabilities that automate (1) and (2). All three of these categories will be important to consider moving forward, as business profile, attack surface complexity, and related threats change. This article discusses the elements of a good cybersecurity program, resources you can use, and how to determine the controls that will matter most for your own company. Read More...

It’s never too early to reduce the impact of a potential disaster. Having a structured disaster response plan can help your business minimize any destructive downtime and get operations back up and running quickly. These nine tips from IT Pro can help you think through your disaster recovery plan creation and get your business ready for when disaster strikes. Read More...

In the event of an emergency, every second counts. Juvare, one of the largest emergency management and response software providers globally, aims to maintain the same responsiveness as its clients—government agencies, hospitals, universities, healthcare organizations, and emergency response operations across the world. Juvare recently migrated its application workloads to the Azure cloud platform—and hasn’t looked back. The company invested in resiliency through Azure availability zones and Azure Site Recovery capabilities. With Azure Site Recovery, Juvare can rely on fast, automated disaster recovery and seamless failover testing, which helps the company maintain operational continuity and provide critical support to its clients. Read More...

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Server Consultancy Ltd can help accelerate your migration to the cloud with Fast Track for Azure. Schedule a free cloud migration readiness assessment with one of our experts. View: Free Cloud Migration Readiness Assessment

Christmas comes now for companies using Microsoft's MFA Server who want to upgrade to the next generation Azure MFA. Microsoft has unveiled its new Azure MFA Server Migration Utility to make migrating to the next generation Azure MFA smoother and easier. The Azure MFA, Microsoft's new flagship MFA server, is designed to provide lower TCO, simpler deployment and better security than the MFA Server. Read this Microsoft article to get more details on the Server and Migration Utility. Read More...

From when to go to the office to why work in the first place, employees have a new "worth it" equation. Findings from a recent Microsoft Work Trend Index Annual report suggest there's no going back. Read this blog post summarizing the report to explore top take-aways for business leaders tasked with the challenge of making hybrid work, work. Read More...

Every year, millions of travelers book flights with the Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) app, just one of many customer-friendly innovations that the company has pioneered in its 75-year history. As a digital leader in an industry still recovering from the 2020 travel bans, SAS relies on Azure to lower infrastructure costs and gain agility for its development teams. Read the customer story to learn how the continuous collaboration SAS received from Microsoft and the FastTrack for Azure team helped the airline save money and simplify processes for their application team. Read More...

The best way to future proof your business is to move more of your applications and workloads to a cloud infrastructure that can satisfy varying requirements. With Microsoft's Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), you can create different environments for different needs. Discover how organizations accelerate their digital transformation and how Azure tools and resources can help your business migrate and modernize in the cloud. Watch this video.

Is your business resilient? Can your systems easily recover from failures and continue to function? Business resiliency is not just about avoiding failures. It’s about responding to failures in a way that avoids downtime or data loss. Building reliable systems on Azure is a shared responsibility between Microsoft, our customers, and our partners. Learn more. No matter where you are on your cloud journey, with Azure, we can help you achieve your business’ reliability goals. Read More...

The unexpected can happen at any time – so now’s the time to protect your business. We’re here to support you with the right resources at every stage of your Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery planning. When you sign up for our mailing list, we’ll help you learn more about BCDR with Azure, and so much more. We’ve got your back. Let’s stay connected! Read More...

To the future of work, work-life balance and employee wellness are priorities. How do you deliver it with the right combination of technology, process and culture? Experts in designing and implementing hybrid work environments, Server Consultancy Ltd can help you plan and deliver a hybrid work strategy for your organization. Receive a free consultation when you schedule direct. View: Free Hybrid Work Consultation

Azure AD (Active Directory) is a cloud-based identity and access management service in Microsoft Azure. It helps you manage the identities of users and devices while controlling access to resources within and outside your organization. A main Azure AD feature is support for integrated cross-tenant collaboration, enabling users from different organizations to collaborate and share resources with each other even when they're not part of the same Azure AD tenant (or instance). What settings are available in Azure AD to help you manage B2B collaboration and B2B direct connect with external Azure AD organizations? Receive a free Azure Active Directory Demo with an expert from our team when you schedule direct. View: Azure Active Directory Demo

Employee well-being is hugely important to Marty Flanagan, President and CEO at Invesco, Ltd. In this short video, Flanagan shares highlights from an interview with two of Invesco's rising career employees on how hybrid work environments provide the flexibility people need to maintain a healthy work-life balance. Watch the video on LinkedIn and get access to the full conversation. Read More...

Azure AD (Active Directory) is a cloud-based identity and access management service in Microsoft Azure. It helps you manage the identities of users and devices while controlling access to resources within and outside your organization. A main Azure AD feature is support for integrated cross-tenant collaboration, enabling users from different organizations to collaborate and share resources with each other even when they're not part of the same Azure AD tenant (or instance). This article shows how to use cross-tenant access settings to manage B2B collaboration and B2B direct connect with external Azure AD organizations — even across clouds. Read the blog for a walkthrough of managing external access with inbound and outbound settings, default settings, organizational settings and others. In addiiton, get tips for comparing settings for different scenarios. Read More...

As ransomware attacks grow each year, retailers are an attractive target for cybercriminals looking to steal credit card data and more. Without a robust backup and recovery strategy, the fallout from an attack could mean the loss of loyal customers and permanent damage to brand reputation. Read more to see how running backup and disaster recovery in the cloud is a great option for most retailers, providing scalability and flexibility as workloads grow. Just as important, this approach aligns with data sovereignty laws and regulations and allows businesses to embark on their digital transformation journey right away. Read More...