SASE …. or Secure Access Service Edge is a term coined by Gartner and is about providing the next generation of security and optimized network access for end-users. When I first starting to read about this, my first thought was, so is this Zero-Trust? but no, it is a combination of multiple features, but Zero-Trust …
SASE – The next generation of services we need to protect the mobile workspace? Read More »
Last week I hosted (for the second time) the EUC state of the union 2021 edition for the My Citrix User Group community. Webinar Recording (for MYCUGC members here –> https://t.co/MI4rlKY7Yf?amp=1 PPT slides –> mycugc/MYCUGC.pptx at main · msandbu/mycugc (github.com) However, I also wanted to write a bit about some of the main things that I see …
As many have said before me, moving virtual infrastructure to public cloud does not make any changes to what kind of responsibility you have as a customer in regards of management of those virtual machines. A Couple of weeks ago I did a presentation at the Nordic Virtual Summit about Security in Microsoft Azure, therefore …
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Before I’ve written a bit about the Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop architecture and how it handles traffic flow –> Windows Virtual Desktop Traffic Flow and GPU Workloads | Marius Sandbu (msandbu.org) A While back, Microsoft also introduced a new feature called WVD ShortPath which essentially allows the client to do a direct connection to the Session …
So when you are working on a production workload and something is not right with the network on that Windows VM, what do you do? Wireshark to the rescue? well no… not quite, I wouldn’t install that on a production server since it installs WinPcap/NpCap which is an NDIS filter driver on the network card. Secondly, …
Network Packet Trace with Netsh and analysis with Wireshark Read More »
Yesterday Microsoft released into public preview the premium sku of their Azure Firewall which is a managed PaaS based firewall service in Azure. Since I first wrote about Azure Firewall and some of the features, I found lacking there have been a lot of enhancements (here is the original article –> Current limitations with Azure Firewall …
The last couple of weeks I’ve been busy preparing for upcoming webinars/conferences, and therefore I want to mention that tomorrow I’ll be presenting at the Nordic Virtual Summit. Which is a IT pro based event Nordic Virtual Summit – A virtual IT Pro Community Event! * On Wednesday I’ll be talking about Security and Governance (with …
s straight Last week, there was published an article from NETSCOUT Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Mitigation Recommendations – January 2021 | NETSCOUT that publicly available RDP servers were used to do amplified DDoS attacks. From the article “When enabled on UDP/3389, the Microsoft Windows RDP service may be abused to launch UDP reflection/amplification …
As I’ve been recently working with a project where we were looking into where to place our databases in Azure and what kind of services or IaaS based delivery, we should choose for hosting databases for some certain line of business applications. Within Azure we have three different managed Microsoft SQL offerings, but which one …
Latency and difference between SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server VM? Read More »
DaaS (Desktop as a Service) has seen a lot of uptake now during COVID-19, where organizations are moving from use of traditional VDI deliveries, going to a fully managed desktop as a service from the main vendors such as Citrix, Nutanix, VMware or others. As also described here in this ZDnet article –> https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsofts-cloud-pc-leak-reveals-new-details-on-upcoming-azure-powered-remote-desktop/ Microsoft is working …
Cloud PC the evolution of Windows Virtual Desktop? Read More »
