Managed Identities

Azure Outage 2026: VM Provisioning & Identity Service Disruption Analysis

Microsoft's Azure cloud platform experienced a significant, multi-stage outage that began at 19:46 UTC on Monday, February 9, 2026, and wasn't fully resolved until over 12 hours later, impacting...

Azure API Management Now Publishes REST Messages Directly to Service Bus

Microsoft has introduced a groundbreaking capability in Azure API Management that enables direct publishing of REST messages to Azure Service Bus through built-in policies, eliminating the need for...

Policy-Driven Identity for Hybrid Windows: Ephemeral Access Over Static Credentials

For many hybrid enterprises, the final and most stubborn step of digital transformation isn't lifting servers or rehosting applications—it's reconciling identity across on-premises Active Directory...

Critical Azure ML Privilege Escalation Vulnerability: Risks & Security Best Practices

A critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Azure Machine Learning (AML) has sent shockwaves through the cloud security community, exposing organizations to potential data breaches and...

Azure Cloud Security Risks: How Simple Misconfigurations Enable Catastrophic Attacks

Enterprising threat actors have long sought creative new ways to exploit increasingly complex cloud ecosystems, but a chilling series of events recently unveiled by security researchers at ITM8...

Securing Azure Managed Identities: Best Practices to Prevent Abuse

Introduction Azure Managed Identities (MIs) have revolutionized the way applications authenticate to Azure services by eliminating the need for developers to manage credentials directly. By providing...