For sometime Microsoft has had a feature called Continuous access evaluation in Preview as part of Azure Active Directory. Which allows Conditional Access Policies and User Changes be evaluated in realtime compared to the traditional lifetime of a token. Just to Read more…
When migrating from Active Directory to Azure Active Directory you move an essentially from a tree based structure where you might have multiple domains, forest and a large OU structure to more a flat tenant structure within Azure Active Directory. Read more…
During Ignite Microsoft released a new set of Cloud integrations from Azure Defender to AWS and Google Cloud. This provides the following advantages when connecting Azure Defender to the different cloud providers. Automatic agent provisioning (Defender uses Azure Arc to deploy the Read more…
Microsoft tunnel is a new feature which was released during Microsoft Ignite 2020. Tunnel is a VPN gateway solution for Microsoft Intune. The tunnel allows access to on-premises resources from iOS/iPadOS and Android Enterprise devices using modern authentication and Conditional Read more…
With all the ransomware and crypto attacks that are happening these days, I do appriciate more and more the value of having backup of the data. Not just the backup of course, but also ensuring that we can easily restore Read more…
As part of Microsoft Ignite, Microsoft announced a new feature to provide insight into what kind of queries are being run within a Log Analytics workspace. Log Analytics is a centralized log service which can collect audit/log data from many Read more…
I’ve previosly written about VMware on Azure using the Cloudsimple deployment https://msandbu.org/building-vmware-on-public-cloud-or-using-cloud-native/ where the cloudsimple solution is using a set of (dedicated hosts maximum 16) bare-metal servers in Azure to provide a VMware validated design setup within Microsoft Azure datasenter. The VMware Read more…
Lately there have been more and more ransomware attacks, where companies are faced with their systems and data becoming encrypted, and forcing them to pay a ransom to get access back to their data. A couple of weeks ago I Read more…
When using Azure Policies as part of your govnernance framework, there is always on thing that has bugged me with Azure Policies and that is with regards to alerting about non-compliant resources. From within the portal you get a list Read more…
If you are hosting a blog like me, you can use Cloudflare to protect and accelerate your website which I have described here –> https://msandbu.org/moved-my-blog-to-cloudflare/ that means that front-end traffic is handled by Cloudflare and then to my origin site. Cloudflare recently Read more…