After a long time of doing research and writing, the book is now finally released! which can be found here –> Amazon.com: Windows Ransomware Detection and Protection: Securing Windows endpoints, the cloud, and infrastructure using Microsoft Intune, Sentinel, and Defender: 9781803246345: Sandbu, Marius: Books Composing a book on a broad subject like ransomware presented numerous …
Few weeks back, I received an invitation from a department at my workplace to share my expertise on how to manage and optimize cloud costs for services in Microsoft Azure. So, after that workshop I decided that I wanted to compile my tips and tricks in this blog post, outlining how you can regain control …
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Microsoft EU Data Boundary is a term used to describe Microsoft’s commitment to ensure that personal data of its customers and users in the European Union (EU) remains within the boundaries of the EU. As Azure customers, we can currently choose the location where our services are run and where our data of that is …
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When using PaaS services in a hub-and-spoke architecture a best-practice approach is to use Private Endpoints for accessing those services. This allows us to ensure that these services are only available internally in the Azure VNET and not publicly available. Private Endpoints is a virtual NIC (Network Interface Card) which is placed within a virtual …
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As part of a meetup that I was presenting for the Microsoft Cloud Security User Group this week, I also wanted to do a write up about tips and tricks to how you can secure you Kubernetes environment running in Microsoft Azure (but some tips can also apply for other platforms running elsewhere!) I have …
As cyber threats continue to evolve, traditional security measures are no longer sufficient to protect networks and data. Zero Trust security has emerged as a powerful approach to security that ensures secure access to resources in a world of increasing complexity and data breaches. Cloudflare, a global cloud platform provider which now in the latest …
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It should be noted that this is not a technical blogpost, but more about the overall strategy of how you should look at managing Azure Virtual Desktop at scale based on the way of working with cloud within your organization. But I’m going ahead of myself, so let’s start with the background. As an increasing …
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A while back while I was hosting an Azure Monitor workshop I was asked about if we can use Azure Monitor to monitor the licenses that an organization has in Azure Active Directory? By default, Azure Monitor can only have monitoring rules based upon metrics or events(logs) within Microsoft Azure. This means that by default …
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Microsoft has recently launched support for the language model that powers ChatGPT as part of their OpenAI services on March 9th. Previously, I wrote a blogpost on comparison between OpenAI and Azure OpenAI here –> OpenAI vs Azure OpenAI – msandbu.org. However, with the availability of ChatGPT in Azure, some aspects have changed. Hence, in …
GPT-4 had a goal to improve ability to understand and generate natural language text in complex and nuanced scenarios. To test its capabilities, GPT-4 was evaluated on various exams originally designed for humans. The results showed that GPT-4 often outperforms most human test takers, achieving scores that fall in the top 10% in simulated bar …
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