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NOON PAYMENTS MIGRATES ITS CORE OPERATIONS TO AZURE Digital payments platform looks to post-COVID future, where always-on availability and slick onboarding will be vital Microsoft announced that Dubai-based e-commerce business noon payments has successfully migrated its core operations to Azure, to achieve performance and availability, accelerate DevOps, and enhance cost-efficiency.
will, day or night, to the cloud environment with a single click and zero consultation with DevOps. And with Microsoft’s API management solution noon payments can not only scale without limits, but also protect its infrastructure.
Noon payments is entering its seventh year of operations, providing a comprehensive solution that enables quick onboarding, a richly featured checkout, and speedy integrations with major e-commerce platforms and shopping carts. The company’s decision-makers knew that in the post-COVID reality of always-on demands from consumers, performance would be a critical factor to remain differentiated in its operating market.
“Being a holistic payments platform, organizations like noon payments play a crucial role in enabling digital transformation for enterprises across the world,” said Naim Yazbeck, Regional Director, Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG), Microsoft UAE. “It’s exciting to see how the Microsoft cloud is delivering millisecond response times and single-click deployment to noon payments, making online transactions more secure and responsive for online shoppers in the region.”
Before its migration to Azure, noon payments had to deploy new apps and services through the PowerShell script, which was an error-prone process that required a lot of support from experts. Now, the company’s quality assurance team can deploy at
The Microsoft Azure cloud deployment was also able to meet noon payments’ requirement for zero downtime by leveraging Traffic Manager to divert transactions to other regions during times of main-
Naim Yazbeck
Regional Director, Enterprise and Partner Group (EPG), Microsoft UAE tenance. Azure also enables noon payments to scale its performance bandwidth through peak times such as noon’s Yellow Friday Sale in November when the company projected demand spikes of up to 10 times the normal load.
BEYONDTRUST PRIVILEGED REMOTE ACCESS FORTIFIES IT/OT SECURITY BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access enforces least privilege, granular control and visibility, and layered credential security over remote access for employees and third parties mote Access 22.1, which empowers IT/OT teams to control, manage, and audit remote privileged access by authorized employees, contractors, and vendors — without compromising security. Organizations can enforce least privilege, exert granular control and visibility, and layer on advanced credential security over remote access for employees and third parties.
Daniel DeRosa
Chief Product Officer at BeyondTrust BeyondTrust, the worldwide leader in Privileged Access Management, has announced the release of BeyondTrust Privileged Re-
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Allowing third-party remote access comes with many potential security risks. Vendors authorized to access the network and applications might not adhere to the organization’s same level of security protocols. They might use weak or default passwords, or share a single set of credentials among multiple individuals. VPN is another risky practice for extending ac-
cess to third parties, as they are a target for hackers to compromise the supply chain. To reduce these attack surfaces, BeyondTrust Privileged Remote Access provides greater control over remote vendor access by eliminating “all or nothing” access. All connections are brokered through a single access pathway, with granular, role-based access to specific systems and defined session parameters. “Third-party vendor remote access is often the weakest link in network and information security,” said Daniel DeRosa, Chief Product Officer at BeyondTrust. “We enable organizations to better monitor and manage third-party access for privileged users, without inhibiting business agility.”
