If you have been following me on Twitter or my blog, it’s no secret that I absolutely love Azure Sentinel. It’s on the fastest moving product within the Microsoft Security stack and provides some awesome capabilities. But unfortunately, a lot of people seem to be afraid of it. When you start talking about a ‘SIEM’… READ MORE
In this article, we will create an Azure Pipeline for an Ionic app using the new Azure pipelines YAML templates. We will also cover signing a release build of the published artifacts (APK signing). I have summarised the goals of this blog post in the diagram below. A picture is worth a thousand words. Any… READ MORE
Last year I managed to get Microsoft.Identity.Web running with Azure Functions. During the time, Microsoft released a new model for hosting Functions on .NET called out-of-process . This is used to run Functions in .NET 5.0, will be available with 6.0 and will be the only model available since .NET 7.0 as per roadmap. The out-of-process model comes with… READ MORE
Azure Firewall is a cloud service under the Azure security umbrella that allows customers to centrally manage all their network traffic with built-in capabilities, including high capability, scalability and performance. Let’s see how you can protect your network resources from undesired threats while perusing important Azure Firewall concepts! Initial scenario AzureSpringClean-RG is an Azure Resource Group. All… READ MORE
Last month I posted an article: An Azure Migration Assessment Methodology that give guidance on how to perform a Migration Assessment project as part of a move to Azure. Back in 2017 I blogged about a company’s Azure Maturity Level. And way way back in 2011 I co-authored an article The SaaS Development Life Cycle to give companies guidance on… READ MORE
This blog post will show you how you can deploy Azure Bastion and all associated resources via the use of an Azure PowerShell script. Azure Bastion is an Azure PaaS service that you provision inside a virtual network (VNet), recommendable the HUB VNet. It allows you to securely connect to your Azure virtual machines (VMs) via RDP or SSH and this directly from the Azure portal over SSL. When you use… READ MORE
Logic Apps are awesome, creating “no code” workflows to connect systems or orchestrate a process is a great way to integrate systems in your datacenter or in Azure. Looking at how to secure them is crucial for a production ready environment. This a long article. So grab a drink, a snack and read on… Introduction… READ MORE
Introduction Over the past few weeks I have been helping a couple of my customers take their first steps into the world of DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform. It’s safe to say there is an array of fantastic content out there already in the community and from the vendors themselves, which have certainly been useful… READ MORE
You can use Azure Database Migration Service to migrate the databases from an on-premises SQL Server instance to Azure SQL Database. In this example, we will move the SQL Server 2008 database on on-premises Windows Server 2008 R2 to Azure SQL. As seen in the image below, there is a database called “DCOInsurance” on SQL… READ MORE
Connecting Azure Stack to my FortiGate Firewall I wanted to connect my new local Firewall to my Azure Stack vNet. As I described later this year I did it with my old firewall which was a virtual pfSense Firewall. It was very good to learn the real parameters and to proof that against a commercial product. Things… READ MORE
