Tag: Azure

Microsoft enters Australian space race

Posted on   |  by Ben Grubb
Microsoft Australia’s Lynn McDonald is on a mission to help the local space industry take off and “break the mould”, with an aim to have Microsoft as one of...

Bumpy ride for the Security Manual

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The government document that rides herd over Federal agency cyber security has been on a wild ride this year. The normally staid process of updating what is known as...

ASD brawl over Microsoft

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Signals Directorate executive at the centre of an internal brawl over Microsoft’s Azure and Office365 cloud services being granted Protected Certification has quietly departed the intelligence agency....

ASD process a shocker for SMEs

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Signals Directorate is already taking heavy fire for a perception that Microsoft was not required to meet the same stringent security criteria as its local cloud services...

MacGibbon backs Azure status

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The nation’s National Cyber Security Adviser and deputy director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate Alastair MacGibbon says he is “very, very satisfied” with risk mitigation measures deployed by Microsoft...

ASD puts a cloud over Azure

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Australian Signals Directorate has placed an unusual caveat on the much-lauded ‘Protected’ security status it signed off for Microsoft’s Azure public cloud, publishing a special “Consumer Guide” for...

Azure parades new ASD status

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Microsoft Azure has scored the coveted Protected status for its public cloud from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), giving it a big advantage over arch competitor Amazon Web Services...

Cloud creds: AWS and Azure arrive

Posted on   |  by James Riley
It is game on in the burgeoning Federal government cloud services market as public cloud “gorillas” Microsoft and AWS move to score data security credentials that have been held...