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 …
This is going to be a short post, but wanted to announce that I have two upcoming speaking sessions the next month. First of I have a webinar about Azure Sentinel on Thursday, 27th September on Virtualexpo hosted by fellow CTP Trond Erik Haaverstein –> https://xenappblog.com/agenda/ I’ve been working a lot with Sentinel now since the early preview days …
I’m speaking! about Azure Sentinel and Windows Virtual Desktop Read More »
Earlier today at the VMworld keynote, VMware announced a new set of services that is powered by the latest acquisitions that VMware made (more info about this in my other blog post –> https://msandbu.org/vmware-what-does-the-future-hold-for-them/) And of course this visual shows how the different companies align within the different business strategies. Three of the biggest announcements however …
This is a discussion that I’ve had a couple of times at work already, and especially now with the latest acquisitions it has been a hot topic. Also what I’ve seen in the community is well, I see this as an interesting move from VMware. NOTE: This is not a technical blogpost, but my personal view …
When I was working with a customer project a couple of weeks back, I was setting up a redudant pair of Citrix ADC in Microsoft Azure which was going to be used publish customer workloads. The reason for setting ADC was because of security capabilities such as web application firewall, ip reputation, HTTP DoS, Rate …
Outbound traffic with Standard Load Balancer Microsoft Azure Read More »
One thing I’ve always tried to solve properly is how to simplify access to customer resources in Microsoft Azure, Office 365, Intune and other online services that Microsoft provides. This while still trying to achive a high level of security in regards to having MFA in place, auditing and avoiding having non-personal accounts and still …
How to manage customer access to Azure, Intune and Office 365? Read More »
