Monday, 10 November 2014

Microsoft Releases Free Antimalware for Azure

Microsoft has released the Microsoft Antimalware Azure cloud services and virtual machines for Microsoft Azure customers.

The extension of the free safety is installed by default, but in a disabled state, all the families of the guest operating system, including Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. It is not installed by default on virtual machines in the Azure platform, or infrastructure as a service, but can be added through the Admin Portal Azure and the configuration of the virtual machine Visual Studio Extensions security.

Antimalware Service uses the same engine and signatures as Microsoft Forefront, System Center offerings Defender malware. You can access the same updates, on-demand and real-time analysis. While the software is free, run "... can lead to an increase in network data, or compute resource utilization resulting in additional costs or subscription license."

The service can be set via the API, PowerShell and using Visual Studio setup VM in Server Explorer. These allow companies to control the configuration of the anti-malware service in a high degree. Once installed and running, if configured with Azure diagnostics, service logs events in the Azure storage account. These events can be channeled HDInsight system (Microsoft's Hadoop distribution) or a SIEM (Security Information and Event Management).

A technical document for cloud services Microsoft Antimalware Microsoft Azure and the service virtual machine is explained in more detail and includes sample scripts PowerShell to configure the service and for the extraction of the same events.

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