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Azure – You can now enforce vulnerability assessment to be deployed on virtual machines

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure, Security / By Benoit HAMET / February 7, 2020 February 7, 2020 / ASC, Azure, Azure Security, Azure Security Center, Policy, Security, Security Policy

You may already know that Microsoft has introduced a vulnerability assessment capability to Azure – for either SQL Managed Instances, SQL Server or Virtual Machines. Well, this capability needs to be enabled at the resource level by accessing the Security blade of the virtual machine and click on Vulnerability assessment solution should be installed on …

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Azure – You can now define your own security policies in Azure Security Center

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure, Security / By Benoit HAMET / November 5, 2019 November 5, 2019 / ASC, Azure, Azure Security, Azure Security Center, Custom Policy, Policy, Security, Security Center

As you may already know, Azure comes with security center a feature providing unified and centralized security management for Azure called Azure Security Center (ASC). Until now, Azure Security Center was providing only built-in security policies (either from Microsoft or to comply with regulatory standards). Well, good news, you can now define your very own …

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Teams – You can now define policy package

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / By Benoit HAMET / November 4, 2019 November 4, 2019 / Microsoft Teams, Policy, Policy Package, Teams, Teams Policy Package

As you already know you can define Teams policies (aka Messaging, Meeting, Application, Calling or Live Events policies) to define various settings for Teams client. This means for each Teams functionality you had/have to create a policy and then apply it to the users; which then could results in configuration/policy inconsistency as every policy is …

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Intune – You can now define policy sets (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Intune / By Benoit HAMET / October 21, 2019 October 21, 2019 / Intune, Policy, Policy Set, Policy Sets

As you know, you can define policies to applications and devices using Intune to ensure minimum requirements, compliance and define various configuration settings. Until now, you had to create and assign policies (to devices, users or application) one by one. Well, good news, you can now start creating policy sets to apply these policies from …

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Azure – You can apply a policy to ensure the Log Analytics agent is being deployed on your virtual machine (Preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By Benoit HAMET / August 27, 2019 August 27, 2019 / Azure, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Policy, Log Analytics, Log Analytics Agent, MMA, Monitoring Agent, Policy

As you may know Azure provides a quite powerful monitoring solution for your Azure environment as well your on-premises one called Azure Log Analytics. This Log Analytics capability is also used by Azure Security Center to centralize security-related logs. The use of Azure Log Analytics requires to have a local agent (Log Analytics Agent, also …

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