msandbu, Author at msandbu.org

Windows Virtual Desktop in Prevew – What you need to think about!

Leave a Comment / 22. March 2019 22. March 2019

There has been a lot of great information now the last couple of days regarding Windows Virtual Desktop like the blog post from Bas here –> https://www.basvankaam.com/2019/03/19/the-windows-virtual-desktop-what-we-know-so-far-its-more-than-you-think-65-facts-listed/ still there is some questions that also remained unanswered yet as part of what they are building as part of it. However there is still some information that I wish …

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Norwegian Hydro affected by Ransomware Attack LockerGoga

Leave a Comment / 19. March 2019 19. March 2019

Earlier today I noticed the press release that the Norwegian Company Hydro announced in media that they have been affected by a ransomware attack and a targeted attack against their Active Directory. Earlier today Hydro shut down many of their operations and also their website is also currently down. UPDATE: Here is the latest sample of …

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Palo Alto Redlock and Public Cloud Threat Defense

Leave a Comment / 15. March 2019 15. March 2019

With more and more organizations moving towards multi-cloud approach, it often requires some changes in our toolbox to ensure security, governance and compliance across different cloud providers. Within this market there is also a growing set of vendors which want to provide this cross-cloud security ecosystem, such as some I’ve written about previously such as …

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Awarded with Veeam Vanguard and Citrix Technology Professional for 2019

Leave a Comment / 5. March 2019 5. March 2019

The last couple of weeks I’ve been honored to receive two community awards from vendors Veeam (Vanguard) and Citrix (Technology Professional) for 2019! I’ve been fortunuate to be part of both these programs the last couple of years now and both vendors are heavily invested into their community programs, which allows us as members to particiate in deep …

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Cloud SIEM with Azure Sentinel

Leave a Comment / 3. March 2019 3. March 2019

Today Microsoft released Azure Sentinel, a SIEM service running in the Cloud. Now looking at Sentinel is it not a completely new service it is built upon a lot of existing services in Azure such as Security Center, Log Analytics workspace which is being used to query and structure the data underneath. Still it brings …

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Moving from ADC to Service Mesh

Leave a Comment / 1. March 2019 1. March 2019

Over the last years now I’ve been working a lot with different ADC platforms. ADC is a term used to describe a next-generation load balancer (according to Gartner), where we have vendors such as F5, Citrix, KEMP, and so on. Now the ADC market is no longer a single, undivided market serving traditional data-center-deployed application …

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What is Windows Virtual Desktop and Traffic Flow

Leave a Comment / 28. February 2019 28. February 2019

When I first write about Windows Virtual Desktop late last year after Iginite and the announcements came out, a lot has changed! (here is the originial post –> https://msandbu.org/windows-virtual-desktop-what-is-it-actually-and-limitations/ ) Overview of Windows Virtual Desktop Much of the announcement then was around Windows 10 Multi-user which is still going to be a Azure only offering and that hasen’t changed. …

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Getting started with Azure AD Auth with Azure Files

Leave a Comment / 28. February 2019 28. February 2019

As I’m writing this it should be noted that the feature itself is still in preview. Azure files has been an awesome feature that provides SMB 3 based file share to both internet based clients but also Virtual Machines running in Microsoft Azure. Azure Files has up until now has some limitations when it comes …

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Moved my blog to Cloudflare!

Leave a Comment / 28. February 2019 28. February 2019

Well technically I didn’t move anything, just moved the nameservers the domain used from Azure to Cloudflare but atleast I’ve did part, so I am technically at Cloudflare’s mercy… 🙂 For those who haven’t heard about Cloudflare, they host some of the best cloud DDoS protection features in the market.They are also known for CDN …

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My talks at NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference)

Leave a Comment / 11. February 2019 11. February 2019

Last week I had the pleasure of talking at NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference) where I had two talks. 1: Building Lego with Terraform on Microsoft Azure Where I take a closer look at ARM vs Terraform and how the different Hashicorp components fit into a multi-cloud ecosystem. Using tools like Consul and Vault to store …

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