By mow you already know you can use ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates to deploy resources on Azure in automated and consistent way. Well, you can now define template specs, a new resource type for storing Azure template for future use. This also allows you sharing templates with other users in your organization, fixing known […]
Azure – Define ARM templates specs (preview) Read More »
You may already know Azure Security Center, your one stop shop for anything security related on Azure, helping you managing and improving your security posture on your Azure resources (and also on-premises ones if you are in hybrid). Well, Azure Security Center is now also helping you identifying (or more importantly provides a better visibility)
Azure – Azure Security Center is now helping you identifying weak network access Read More »
By now you may already know Azure Cloud Shell, available directly from the Azure/Office 365 portals or from the URL https://shell.azure.com, the shell management tool running directly from your web browser. Well, you can now connect Azure Cloud Shell with a virtual network on your Azure tenant; this could be handy when you have to
Azure – You can now connect your Azure Cloud Shell to a virtual network Read More »
You may already know Azure Key Vault, the cloud solution provided by Azure to store securely secrets (like certificates, passwords…) You may already know there is a functionality available called soft-deleted allowing to recover deleted secret up to 90 days after the deletion. This option is available from the Properties blade of the Key Vault
Azure – Soft-delete will be enabled by default for Azure Key Vault Read More »
As you know you can use Azure Storage account to host file shares on Azure. Also you are aware that you can backup your Azure File share to an Azure Recovery Vault. While the file share backup has been available for configuration from the Azure Recovery Vault settings for a while, you can now configure
Azure – You can now enable backup directly from the File blade Read More »
The team in charge of Azure Security Center has developed a Power Bi dashboard to help you track your Secure Score evolution. It also includes backlog of actions to be performed. You will have 2 setup options: Edit a Power BI template with Power BI desktop Use a Power BI application Prepare your Azure environment
Azure – The Azure Security team has developed a Power BI Dashboard Read More »
As you know Azure comes with a lot of security capability which sometimes get missed or misconfigured. To help customers stay on top of their security posture, Azure integrates Azure Security Center (ASC) which gives you an overview of your security configuration, not only for Azure resources but also for on-premises ones if you have
Azure – New capability added to Azure Security Center: Inventory Read More »
As you know Azure Storage account is the Azure service allowing you storing data on blobs, files, queues or tables, providing a unique namespace to access the content from anywhere (according to your security and permissions settings) using HTTP protocol (in fact HTTPS). Well, Azure Storage account now support NFS (Network File System) version 3
Azure – Azure Storage account now support NFS 3.0 (preview) Read More »
Disclaimer you need to evaluate if you need or not to enable this new feature, anonymous read access on Azure Blob Storage, as any client will be able to read the data stored on the corresponding Blob Storage. As you know, access to data stored on Azure Blob Storage is managed either by implementing Azure
Azure – You can now enable anonymous read access on Blob Storage or Container Read More »
As you know, certificates are more heavily used and important than ever to protect communication between clients and services. Well, the Certificate Authority (CA) Browser (https://cabforum.org/) members recently published a report detailing multiple certificates issued by certification authorities (CA) were out the industry standard for publicly trusted CA’s. You can read the reports here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1649951
Azure – You need to review if your certificates have been issued by compliant CA Read More »
