On this post I will run through the necessary steps to integrate Azure Sentinel with Palo Alto VM-Series Firewall logs. First things first, we will assume you already have an Azure Sentinel workspace created. We will go ahead, open our Sentinel portal in Azure and on the ‘Connectors’ blade click Read more…
Sentinel can integrate with customer SIEM platforms for hybrid cloud monitoring use cases, using specialized threat detection algorithms and sending high fidelity alerts to these platforms. While there may be a few different architectures to achieve this integration, surely Azure Event Hub can provide an enterprise grade system for alert Read more…
I found a great way to test the Azure IoT capabilities with a Raspberry PI. The following set up uses a temperature sensor plugged into a breadboard which is connected to a Raspberry PI using jump wires Microsoft wrote a nice document to guide you step by step on this Read more…
Whether you are planning to use Express Route or VPN tunnels to connect your data centers to Azure, and you want to use a co-location provider in your region to reach Azure or extend your MPLS network to Microsoft. Are you also thinking what is the optimal route to connect Read more…
You may have tried to convert your vhd of a VM using a Premium storage account into standard. While the process is not possible via the Azure portal once the storage account has been created, I found 2 quick workarounds to achieve this: Use the AzCopy utility https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-use-azcopy The idea Read more…
I just had an interesting discussion around the use of the Azure Application Gateway (AppGW) and the built-in load balancer (LB) it has. Be aware that when you deploy the Azure Application Gateway, by default it will create 2 instances of it, as seen below: You then may be wondering.. Read more…
Using SSL certificates with LetsEncrypt On the following post we are going to explain how quickly and easy is to assign an SSL certificate to your Azure WebApp I have a WordPress WebApp already running and the first thing we want to do is to create a custom hostname for Read more…
OVERVIEW Azure WAF is part of Azure Application Gateway and provides centralized protection of your web applications from common exploits and vulnerabilities. I found that one simple and quick way to familiarise with Azure WAF is to use the Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA) This is a step by step Read more…
You may have had the chance to configure a networking cluster of firewalls, proxies, WAFs or load balancers in Azure in the past, and may have come across with the dilemma of making the cluster highly available, as you would do within an on-premises environment, where you would place your Read more…
This is a follow up from a previous post , where you can set up a Damn Vulnerable Web Application (DVWA from now on) to test Azure WAF to protect your Web Application Now, we will run the DVWA within a container using the Azure Container Service (AKS), where Azure manages Read more…