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…
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…
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…