Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) are the best line of defense. Microsoft has recently added an option to its Azure public cloud to build application gateways that have a built-in WAF.

Similar to the existing service, though, Azure’s new API Apps will allow developers to find, host and manage APIs from the likes of Zendesk, Office 365, SAP, Siebel and Oracle.

Azure App Service: Azure’s original serverless platform Azure’s App Service is one of the oldest pieces of Azure’s PaaS offering. It’s a runtime for web and mobile back ends, using common ...

Microsoft uses the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) rulesets for its Azure WAF, so choose the version you want and apply it to your application gateway along with rules that manage ...

Azure App Testing combines Microsoft's services for load and web testing. It scales automatically and offers AI-supported ...

While the above eight items are on Azure Web App (Platform-as-a-service), let us also take a quick peek at a few cool stuff which can also be done using Virtual Machines (Infrastructure-as-a-service).

Call it low-code for the web: Azure Static Web Apps has reached general availability, providing a quick onramp to full-stack projects with static front ends and dynamic back ends powered by Azure ...

The Microsoft Azure App Service has a four-year-old vulnerability that could reveal the source code of web apps written in PHP, Python, Ruby or Node, researchers said, that were deployed using ...