Optimizing your Azure VMs – 3 Simple Steps to Cloud Efficiency
Virtual machines are arguably still one of the most fundamental core infrastructure components when it comes to cloud computing. Whether you are hosting databases, custom apps, runner jobs, or leveraging them as nodes for your container hosts, VMs are core ... continue reading
AKS Egress Traffic demystified
AKS Egress Traffic with Load Balancer, NAT Gateway, and User Defined Route Introduction Welcome to this lab where we will explore the different outbound types in Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Outbound traffic refers to the network traffic that originates ... continue reading
Cloud storage security: What’s new in the threat matrix
Today, we announce the release of a second version of the threat matrix for storage services, a structured tool that assists in identifying and analyzing potential security threats on data stored in cloud storage services. The matrix, first released in ... continue reading
Automating Azure VM Deployment: The Power of PowerApps, SharePoint, Flow and Azure DevOps Pipe
Introduction Many of our customers are trying to balance the productivity vs security scale at this point in time. On the one end you can provide access to the Azure Portal but that could provide certain risks and requires an ... continue reading
Using Automation Runbook Webhooks To Alert on Databricks Status Updates
Description This guide walks you through the process of setting up and utilizing webhooks to receive Databricks status alerts, process them using Azure Automation Runbook, and trigger notifications to administrators about the status event. Prerequisites Before diving into the ... continue reading
Multiple high severity vulnerabilities in CODESYS V3 SDK could lead to RCE or DoS
Microsoft’s cyberphysical system researchers recently identified multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the CODESYS V3 software development kit (SDK), a software development environment widely used to program and engineer programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Exploitation of the discovered vulnerabilities, which affect all versions ... continue reading
Adopting guidance from the US National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the Internet of Things
The recently published United States National Cybersecurity Strategy warns that many popular Internet of Things (IoT) devices are not sufficiently secure to protect against many of today’s common cybersecurity threats.1 The strategy also cautions that many of these IoT devices ... continue reading
Modernize and monetize your network investments with Microsoft Azure Operator Nexus
Azure Operator Nexus is now generally available Earlier this year at MWC Barcelona, Microsoft announced the public preview of Azure Operator Nexus, a carrier-grade and hybrid platform, built to empower telecom operators to modernize and transform their networks. Operator Nexus ... continue reading
Cryptojacking: Understanding and defending against cloud compute resource abuse
In cloud environments, cryptojacking – a type of cyberattack that uses computing power to mine cryptocurrency – takes the form of cloud compute resource abuse, which involves a threat actor compromising legitimate tenants. Cloud compute resource abuse could result in ... continue reading
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (June 2023)
Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we are ... continue reading
