Category: Defender

Continuing with the do’s of Identity and supposing that you have a Hybrid identity setup. If you still need (haven’t convinced you otherwise) federation services in on-premises, use should use Defender for Identity sensors for ADFS What it needs? ADFS…

The scenario You have a Windows server with a public IP-address and RDP (TCP 3389) is exposed to internet. And there is still over 3 million open TCP 3389 ports out there. Stupid right but if you are one of…

Have you noticed that there is a really handy security feature that came to Windows 11 in version 22H2 But It’s not enabled by default and it also requires you to log into Windows with your password instead of Windows…

Defender family keep evolving and this time taking a look at Defender EASM. What is EASM? To give you an outside perspective of your online infrastructure, it continuously locates and maps your digital assault surface. With the use of this…

Time for the next section to my SC-100 study guide: Specify security baselines for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS services Specify security requirements for IoT workloads Specify security requirements for data workloads, including SQL, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse and Azure…

Microsoft is all the time consolidating their various different portals, they already removed multiple portals during recent years. Here is a full list of the current ones, sigh! Turn on Preview features Required permissions Accounts assigned the following Azure Active…

In this section I will cover the following: Enable database authentication by using Azure AD Enable database auditing Configure dynamic masking on SQL workloads Implement database encryption for Azure SQL Database Implement network isolation for data solutions, including Azure Synapse…

Configure access control for storage accounts Configure storage account access keys Configure Azure AD authentication for Azure Storage and Azure Files Different Storage Accounts types The Azure Storage platform includes the following data services: Azure Blobs A massively scalable object…

And time for next section for my AZ-500 study guide, continuing with the following. Configure Azure Defender for Servers (not including Microsoft Defender for Endpoint) Evaluate vulnerability scans from Azure Defender Configure Azure Defender for Servers What is inside Defender…

What was released? With 2022 H1 there came some significant update to how You manage and license your Exchange-servers in a Hybrid setup. Exchange Management Tools Update You don’t anymore need Exchange Server for management purposes (Management Hybrid) you can…