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Demystifying Service Principals – Managed Identities

Peter De TenderJanuary 28, 2021Jan 28, 202101/28/21

This article will describe the use case and core differences between Service Principal and Managed Identities, using Key Vault and other Azure services as an example

Azure DevOps Shorts: Azure Sentinel and AKS

Jay GordonDecember 9, 2020Dec 9, 202012/9/20

Microsoft Azure Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution. Azure Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hun

Supporting SHA-2 algorithm in SSH on Azure DevOps

Jimson Chalissery [MSFT]March 18, 2020Mar 18, 202003/18/20

With the release of OpenSSH 8.2 last month, connections to SSH servers using SHA-1 was disabled by default in the OpenSSH client. We understand that this move helps improve the security of SSH connections, by encouraging all users to adopt the SHA-2 class of algorithms, generally considered safer. However, this resulted in OpenSSH users not ...

Update: Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in Azure DevOps Services Extended

Justin ChungMarch 6, 2020Mar 6, 202003/6/20

Unlike previously announced, we will not temporarily or permanently disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in Azure DevOps Services until further notice.

Azure DevOps Services to require TLS 1.2 (Updated)

Justin ChungFebruary 27, 2020Feb 27, 202002/27/20

UPDATE: Based on customers' feedback, we have decided to postpone this change. We will not disable TLS 1.0/1.1 support for Azure DevOps Services until further notice.

Secure software supply chain with Azure Pipelines artifact policies

Vishal JainNovember 6, 2019Nov 6, 201911/6/19

New preview capabilities for Azure Pipelines let you define artifact policies that are enforced before deploying to critical environments such as production. You will be able to define custom policies that are evaluated against all the deployable artifacts in a given pipeline run and block the deployment if the artifacts don't comply.

Auditing for Azure DevOps is now in Public Preview

Octavio Licea LeonJune 26, 2019Jun 26, 201906/26/19

Auditing for Azure DevOps is now available for all organizations as a Public Preview! A new way to monitor activities and changes throughout Azure DevOps organizations.

New IP firewall rules for Azure DevOps Services

Whitney JenkinsMay 31, 2019May 31, 201905/31/19

Azure DevOps is currently investing in enhancing its routing structure. As a result of this enhancement, our IP address space will be changing. If you're currently using firewall rules to allow traffic to Azure DevOps, please be sure to update these rules to account for our new IP ranges.

Using AzureAD identities in Azure DevOps organizations backed by Microsoft Accounts

Justin MarksSeptember 27, 2018Sep 27, 201809/27/18

Azure DevOps now supports AzureAD (AAD) users accessing organizations that are backed by Microsoft accounts (MSA). For administrators, this means that if your organization uses MSAs for corporate users, new employees can use their AAD credentials for access instead of creating a new MSA identity.

Introducing Search service authentication to make communications with TFS more secure

Subrahmanya SrinivasSeptember 13, 2018Sep 13, 201809/13/18

Basic authorization is now enabled on the communication between the TFS and Search services to make it more secure.

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