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NDES Security Best Practices

Securing network infrastructure is crucial. NDES issues certificates for network and mobile devices, making its security essential. This post covers best practices like treating NDES as a Tier 0 system, using PAW, and employing Hardware Security Modules.

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Log Analytics - KQL - Log Quiet

In this blog post, we'll dive into using Azure's Kusto Query Language (KQL) to identify tables that have not received logs in the last day.

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Logic Apps: JSON Parsing

The parsing of JSON in Azure Logic Apps is mysterious. I'm aiming to share what I've found with you and make your engineering day a lot more smoother...

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KQL Cheat Sheet: The Basics

KQL basics, filtering, selecting, aggregating and joining. Must-know queries for you cyber folk.

aad

Secure Azure AD: Top 6

Top 6 practices to secure your Azure Active Directory.

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What Cloud Security Threats Should We Expect in 2023?

What Cloud Security Threats Should We Expect in 2023?

sentinel

What is Microsoft Sentinel?

Back to basics: What is Microsoft Sentinel? Should I choose Sentinel or Splunk?

security

Is China and Russia a UK Cyber Threat?

Is China and Russia a UK Cyber Threat? How can we protect ourselves from Russian and Chinese cyber attacks? What is the UK doing to protect our country from state-sponsored cyber attacks?

finops

What is Cloud FinOps?

Cloud FinOps aims to help organizations achieve better financial control over their cloud usage and optimize cloud costs.

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Cloud FinOps: Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management

"Cloud FinOps: Collaborative, Real-Time Cloud Financial Management" by J.R. Storment and Mike Fuller is a comprehensive guide to cloud financial management, aimed at helping organizations optimize their cloud spending.

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Stop Users Creating Azure AD Tenants

Stop standard users being able to create an Azure AD tenant by flicking this switch. Prevent data loss prevention and shadow IT.

aws

Azure vs GCP vs AWS

Which Cloud? AWS, Azure or GCP? Who is more secure? Who has the best security tooling?

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Microsoft Cloud Security Expert? These documents are your bibles

Whether you're new or a seasoned cloud security professional in Azure/Microsoft, these are your bibles to carry with you at all times.

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Join the Microsoft Cloud Security Private Community

Welcome to the Cloud Security Private Community. By signing up for the ongoing program, you will receive access to our NDA roadmap calls, design exercises, surveys, and private previews.

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Microsoft Security Community - Upcoming Webinars 2022

Some upcoming Microsoft security webinars for May/June/July/August 2022.

web security

Why you should protect your robots.txt file

The robots.txt file is a text file that is used to communicate with web robots or search engine crawlers, providing instructions on which pages of a website they can and cannot access. While it may seem like a harmless file, it's important to secure your robots.txt file.

threat hunting

Microsoft Defender - Advanced Hunting

Advanced Hunting in 365 is the great starting point for investigating suspicious behavior in your network. The massive range of modules allows it to be very adaptable for a unique environment.

aws

Insecure S3 Buckets

You wouldn't park your Lamborghini in a garage with an open door to the public. Why would you do the same with your company/team's precious data and resources?

logic apps

Azure Logic Apps - Inline JS - Convert Security Severity Ratings

Convert Microsoft severity ratings from Low, Med, High to integers if your ITSM only supports this using inline JavaScript in Logic Apps.

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Azure Logic Apps - Parsing Output Header Values

Do you use Azure logic apps? This is a neat little trick to extract an HTTP header value if you need to.

ports

Most Commonly Attacked Ports

The most commonly attacked ports and what you can do to help protect those ports against cyber attacks.

osi model

The OSI Model: What is it?

The OSI (Open Systems Interconnection) model is a conceptual model that defines the different layers involved in computer networking. Everyone who works in computing should understand this.

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Microsoft Cloud Security Product Name Changes - Ignite 2021

Some exciting news coming out of Ignite 2021 - new name changes for a lot of Microsoft's cloud security ecosystem.

azure

Azure AD Editions

Azure Active Directory comes in four editions—Free, Microsoft 365 Apps, Premium P1, and Premium P2. The Free edition is included with an Azure subscription.

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Azure Managed Identity

Azure managed identity means you don't have to handle credentials anymore. If you use Azure, then you must know about this to secure your environment.