Last year I wrote a blog article about Microsoft Global Secure Access and what kind of services it provides. Therefore, I decided to write an example about use-cases for it in preparation for a session I have tomorrow Agenda – xenappblog you can also view the PPT here –> community/GSA-MariusSandbu.pptx at main · msandbu/community (github.com) …
ZTNA for Azure Private Endpoint using Entra Private Access Read More »
Yesterday I had a tweet that blew up quite quickly, because I was doing some research for a customer to uncover the cost for a new VDI solution. While in hindsight I should have been a lot more accurate on the tweet, but I’ll explain. The goal of this post is to compare a cost …
Citrix vs Azure Virtual Desktop on-premises what’s the cost difference? Read More »
With all the turmoil around VMware, should you consider moving to an alternative platform? With all the changes happening in VMware, both at the company and licensing changes many are looking towards changing to another virtualization layer. Why? While the price increase is different from customer to customer, you can look at this Reddit thread …
In preparation for my upcoming session at Experts Live Denmark, I wanted to write a blog post showing the overall state of generative AI and LLMs. There is a lot of development happening here now and therefore I wanted to give a current overview of the different models, support for multi-modality, integrations and give a …
One of the easiest ways to get started with running LLMs locally on your own machine is using Ollama. Ollama is an open-source product that provides a local llm inference API that you can interact it. It also provides a CLI tool that you can also use to interact with in real-time. You can also …
To clear some of the confusion around this new encryption feature in Microsoft Azure called Encryption at host, what does it actually do?When reading the documentation from Microsoft is states the following “When you enable encryption at host, that encryption starts on the VM host itself, the Azure server that your VM is allocated to. …
Microsoft Azure Encryption at host – What is it actually? Read More »
Almost every day I get a notification from one or multiple sources saying that “Product X” has a new vulnerability which is marked as HIGH SEVERITY and CRITICAL. This is then of course a RCE (Remote Code Execution) which can then bypass authentication for some public facing service. Congrats! someone now has access to your …
What to do with all these damn vulnerabilities? Part 1 Read More »
While there are many blog posts and articles mentioning WHY you should secure your GenAI services or applications that you are building, almost none of the describe the tools and methods to secure them. Therefore, I decided to write my own blog post on what kind of security risks you can have with building Gen …
How do you secure an GenAI application or service? Read More »
I have been reading so many bad blog posts lately regarding Microsoft Copilot and how they work that I decided to write a bit more in-depth the inner workings of the different offerings so that you can get some more sense on how they actually work. While I wrote a somewhat intro here –> How …
How Microsoft’s different Copilot offerings ACTUALLY work Read More »
This is a follow-up of my series on Ransomware (Part One: Analyzing the Anatomy of a Ransomware Attack – msandbu.org) the reason why I released this follow-up is that lately we have seen a large increase in Ransomware attacks. The reason behind this is that because lately there have been many critical vulnerabilities related to …
Part two: Infection and lateral movement of Ransomware attack Read More »
