Hunting Threats with Azure Security Center

In February I had the chance to attend a session by Yuri Diogenes [https://twitter.com/yuridiogenes], Program Manager at Microsoft, on how Azure Security Center works and how to demo it in a real life scenario. The session he gave ended up as one of the excellent Azure Security…

Azure File Sync in proxied environments

Azure File Sync [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-sync-files-planning] lets you tier data from on-premises systems to a cloud share based on Azure File. Local nodes can act as hot-caches, caching data based on access and modification patterns. Azure File Sync supports multi-master sync so that you…

Azure Active Directory Login for Ubuntu VMs in preview

Centralized integration with an identity provider is a common ask. It provides increased security and removes the reliance on out-of-band managed user accounts. It is now possible to configure Azure Active Directory login for Ubuntu-based VMs (16.04 LTS & 17.10) through the Device Flow authentication process. This is currently…