At the heart of the modern cloud is a tension between two different philosophies: IaaS, where you build a virtual infrastructure on a fabric of host systems managed by a cloud provider, and PaaS, ...

Back in June, it was announced that Microsoft was planning to switch to mandatory access protection with multi-factor authentication (MFA) for Azure accounts. The changeover was due to begin in July.

Starting in October, all Microsoft Azure customers will be required to have multifactor authentication (MFA) enabled on their accounts, Microsoft said. From Microsoft ...