The news: Microsoft held its annual Ignite event to announce new products and initiatives that cater to IT professionals and business customers. With this year’s massive CrowdStrike outage still fresh on minds, the company doubled down on improving security across its services.
Among the announcements was Zero Day Quest, a research challenge and in-person hacking event to incentivize probing for security flaws that could threaten cloud and AI workloads.
Focusing on resilience: Another response to the CrowdStrike outage that disrupted 8.5 million Windows PCs and servers in July is the Windows Resiliency Initiative to boost security and reliability.