For those at Ignite today, there was some pretty big announcements from Microsoft and especially around hybrid management. Now previosly AWS and Google has had the upper hand with their edge funtionality mainly that they can provide their own services running on existing virtualized platforms and Microsoft has only had Azure Stack which means that …
A couple of months back I wrote an article about building VDI Solutions in Microsoft Azure https://msandbu.org/building-vdi-solutions-in-azure-what-options-do-we-have/ and last week I was speaking about Windows Virtual Desktop at an event at Microsoft Norway, where my sessions is about our experience with Windows Virtual Desktop. Now my previous blogpost didn’t emphaize to much on WVD to I wanted to …
Bulding VDI Solutions in Microsoft Azure and now with Windows Virtual Desktop Read More »
Last week I had a webinar about “Catching the bad guys using Azure Sentinel”, where one of my slides I mentioned about how you should design a Azure Sentinel solution which I wanted to cover more in depth here in this blogpost. Now the basic thing you need to understand is that Sentinel is a …
There has been a lot of fuzz around DNS over HTTPs shortnamed (DOH) lately. For those that haven’t read about what is going on or what DoH is, you can read more on Mozilla’s blogpost here about the subject –> https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/05/a-cartoon-intro-to-dns-over-https/ and also Google’s approach here –> https://security.googleblog.com/2019/06/google-public-dns-over-https-doh.html DOH as a protocol has already been rolled out …
DNS over HTTPS is coming, that’s a good thing right? Read More »
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 »
