Zero-trust is something I’ve talked about and heard many vendors talk about for many years already. These days vendors are using this as leverage to sell their products to “Implement Zero-Trust based networks” therefore I wanted to use this blog post as a way for myself to dig deeper into Zero-Trust and its core design principles, …
Demystify Zero-trust design – Never trust, always verify Read More »
One of the best pratices that have been defined for Log Analytics in Azure is to have a few workspaces as possible. Now with the introduction of Azure Sentinel as well, there more sentralized set of logs you have the easier it is to build hunting queries and such in the data that is ingested. …
Changing log retention on a specific table in Log Analytics Read More »
I always love this comic strip from XKCD when it comes to generate a strong password. We are prone to choose simple solutions and taking shortcuts to make it easier for ourselves. Especially this time and day where we have many many many online services that we use on a daily basis. Of course having …
October Security Awareness Month – Post 4 – How Secure is my password? Read More »
This is a topic which I’ve spent many hours on before working on with different customer sites, how can we enhance the security on our public facing web services or web sites? For me personally it was not so much on what could be done on the application or service from code perspective which was …
October Security Awareness Month – Post 3 – How Secure is actually a website? Read More »
Windows Virtual Desktop is now generally available! from the evolution of RDMi and now to Windows Virtual Desktop has been an interesting journey in how Microsoft has now converted the RDS components into PaaS services which they are now provinding in combination with Windows 10 Multi-user and a pretty good licensing model makes this an …
Windows Virtual Desktop – breakdown of architecture and current status Read More »
As a follow-up of yesterday’s post where I discussed different methods that you can use to verify the authenticity of a website, a second questions comes up is there a way to protect yourself without checking the website itself? Since most of these websites are based upon scamming people, some sites are also setup in …
October Security Awareness Month – Post 2- How to protect against phising domains Read More »
October is Security Awareness Month! Since I started my career in the IT industry about 15 years ago, much have changed in the IT industry. Much of the knowledge and competency that I’ve gained is much thanks to the IT community, where many are sharing knowledge and information. As part of this I wanted to …
October Security Awareness Month – Post 1- How to see if a website is secure Read More »
On friday I had one of the sessions at Virtualexpo, where I talked about Microsoft Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender ATP and how these are important tools as part of a security foundation, especially if your enterprise has Windows 10 and cloud based services from Microsoft. You can view the slidedeck that I used during …
Microsoft has now opened their two datacenters in Norway so I decided to update this post with an Q&A on some of the pieces that are important to remember/consider from a data governance and technical aspect before you start using it and also address some of the most common questions I get. You can see …
Microsoft Azure datacenters in Norway – This is what you need to know Read More »
Been waiting for this day for some time now, finally Azure Sentinel is GA! For those that do not know what Sentinel is, the best way to look it is as a cloud-native SIEM solution based upon Log Analytics within Microsoft Azure. Also you can read more about Sentinel in my earlier blogpost about it …
