Locking down AI pipelines in Azure? A zero-trust, metadata-driven setup makes it secure, scalable and actually team-friendly.

For those legacy SQL Server 2008/R2 applications that remain critical, some form of high availability or disaster recovery protection will be required to preserve business continuity.

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Azure gives you an option to upgrade the gateway to the Web Application Firewall tier. When you select the Upgrade to WAF Tier checkbox, the Azure portal reveals a few extra options (see Figure 4).

Microsoft's is now offering a Web Application Firewall (WAF) with its Azure Application Gateway and HTTP load-balancing service to protect apps from a growing spate of malicious attacks.

Microsoft has announced that the Web Application Firewall (WAF) bot protection feature has reached general availability on Azure on Application Gateway starting this week.