Threat modeling is a core element of the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL). It’s an engineering technique you can use to help you identify threats, attacks, vulnerabilities, and countermeasures that could affect your application. You can use threat modeling to shape your application’s design, meet your company’s security objectives, and reduce Read more…
You can now monitor your Azure Secure Score through API and even export how it changes over time to a Power BI report https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Security-Center/tree/master/Secure%20Score/PowerBI-SecureScoreReport
There is lots of new features coming along to Azure Monitor. Without a doubt, having non Azure resources (VMs, containers, databases) being treated as ‘native Azure citizens’ is a great contribution to have one single pane of glass to manage configuration, policy and posture of all your infrastructure resources. Through Read more…
Hi all. There are many ways you can help communities, health and research institutions to find a cure for COVID-19. Research labs need lots of compute and resources to run their complex data analysis models and their resources are often limited. I just came across the Folding @Home project. As Read more…
Advanced Data Security ADS for SQL Servers outside of Azure – Now in Public Preview Advanced Data Security for Azure Arc enabled SQL Server includes the functionality for surfacing & mitigating potential vulnerabilities and detecting & investigating suspicious activities that could indicate threats to SQL servers running outside of Azure. This offering is an Read more…
I am back with a new post to blog about how you can integrate an Azure WAF with a WebApp. Due to compliance, regulation and mostly privacy protection many customers need to encrypt all web traffic from client to end server. That’s being normally a role for reverse proxies, whether Read more…
Let me start describing the need to migrate my WebApp to a different MySQL database, as this is something you wouldn’t do just for fun! This is a summary of my findings and learnings during this process I had noticed for a while that while I was browsing through my Read more…
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…