Tag: Azure

Building your Azure Policies (Azure DevOps) – Part 2
Building your Azure Policies (Azure DevOps) – Part 2
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As written in Part 1, policies are used to maintain the state. The Azure portal itself contains a lot of OOTB policies, but you also want to create and deploy your own. This part will go over how to deploy custom policy definitions using Azure DevOps. Script The script shared in part 1 is adjusted to read out… READ MORE

Connect Azure DevOps to Microsoft Sentinel
Connect Azure DevOps to Microsoft Sentinel
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Did you know you can connect Azure DevOps audit logs to Microsoft Sentinel and create detection rules and automated responses? You might have heard me speak at the Microsoft Scottish Summit (2022) about this topic and wanted to read more about it or implement this in your organisation. This blog post will walk you through… READ MORE

Azure Cosmos DB Hierarchical Partition Keys
Azure Cosmos DB Hierarchical Partition Keys
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Selecting a partition key for your Cosmos DB is one of the most important choices you need to make for your Cosmos DB project. You really need to take your time and have a plan for your project. Where is this application will be in 1 year? 5 years? How much data are you planning… READ MORE

Track changes to Azure resources
Track changes to Azure resources
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Changes to your Azure resources are quite common, and they are difficult to identify. Until now. Microsoft recently released (in preview) the ability to detect change events using Azure Resource Graph. Meaning you do not have to decipher the administrative events in the activity log of your resources. Much like the change tracking solution for Azure VMs.… READ MORE

Taking Your Azure Active Directory Security to the Next Level
Taking Your Azure Active Directory Security to the Next Level
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What if I told you just using multi-factor authentication (MFA) wasn’t enough anymore? The Lapsus$ hacking group, who were at least partially made up of a group of teenagers in the UK, took a very targeted hacking approach. They used password stuffing to try to breach the password credentials of power users within organizations they were targeting.… READ MORE

Creating Azure Functions using VSCode Editor and Python
Creating Azure Functions using VSCode Editor and Python
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Azure Functions can be defined as the cloud services that are available on the Azure portal providing updated infrastructure and resources that are needed for running the applications. It is used to build web APIs, respond to database changes, process IoT streams, manage message queues, and more. In this article, we will explore how to… READ MORE