In December, OpenAI released ChatGPT to the public and took the internet by storm! It was stated that ChatGPT reached 100 million monthly active users just after two months and that it only took 5 days to reach 1 million users. In addition, more than a million signed up for the new ChatGPT-infused Bing search […]
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In the past eight months, I have been engrossed in authoring a new book on Ransomware protection, which has consumed much of my time and consequently impacted my ability and inclination to create blog content. Also, once I began working on a blog post draft, I realized that I had grown weary of the outdated
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Today many organizations got faced with the issue that they have lost all access to their Microsoft apps, such as outlook/excel/word from their Windows machines. This is a bug caused by the latest signature updates from Microsoft (It comes with defender version 1.381.2140) and will impact machines that have ASR (Attack Surface Reduction Rules) that are
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A colleague of mine asked if he could use Azure Sentinel / Log Analytics to audit the usage of a Windows File server, hence this blog post saw the light of day. In migration projects, you might need to see, who is actually using the file server??? Before you start migrating data or deleting data
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For the last year or so I’ve been working on a new book project. Given the last few years, I’ve been working a lot with customers that have been impacted by ransomware or wanted to implement more countermeasures. Therefore, last year I pitched my idea to Packt Publishing about my book idea and they were
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Ever gotten this error message when trying to update a resource in Azure? We recently encountered this in one environment where we had multiple virtual machines within a single subscription, and we couldn’t perform any operations on the VMs. Within Azure, there are different limits within a subscription on how many API calls you can
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A Couple of days ago, the people at OpenAI released ChatGPT which is an AI-based system optimized for dialogue. The service is available for free preview here –> ChatGPT (openai.com) The service itself uses large language models trained by OpenAI and uses deep learning to generate natural language text based on the input. The service has support for
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For the last decade, I’ve worked a lot with building virtual apps and desktops from a lot of different providers, going from Citrix, VMware, Microsoft, and even old 2X and Dell vWorkspace even… The focus was always providing in most cases a centralized secure workspace for end-users, which needed to access their applications whether it be
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One of the things that we have been trying to solve repeatedly is a way to provide self-service mechanisms for developers when it comes to building public cloud services. Where we want to provide developers with a predefined service catalog that contains different packaged services or even a full environment that they can order on-demand.
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One of the compelling reasons of using PaaS services in the Public Cloud, is the ease of management- and lowering the complexity of use. Such as with the use of Database Services, where you no longer need to manage a complex cluster of machines that are responsible for running one of the most heavy workloads –
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