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Optimizing your Azure VMs – 3 Simple Steps to Cloud Efficiency

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
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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
Threat matrix with updated techniques included in reconnaissance, initial access, persistence, defense evasion, credential access, discovery, lateral movement, and exfiltration stages.

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
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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
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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
Heat map of internet-exposed CODESYS devices, most of which appear throughout Europe.

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
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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
Graphical diagram of a cryptojacking attack lifecycle. Presents the steps taken by threat actor from accessing the tenant to mining cryptocurrency.

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
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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