Dana EppJan 26, 20181 minDetecting attempts to run untrusted code by using trusted executables in Azure Security CenterEarly last year FireEye documented a sophisticated spear phishing campaign targeting individuals within the Mongolian government. In the ...
Dana EppJan 16, 20181 minHow large scale datasets makes it easier to reveal threats in the cloudI was thinking about my post last week on how cool the threat intelligence dashboard in the Azure Security Center (ASC) was so cool, rend...
Dana EppJan 6, 20181 minWhy Azure's threat intelligence dashboard is so coolOK I admit it. I am a total data whore when it comes to threat intelligence. I'm actually a bit jealous of the petabytes of security even...
Dana EppDec 30, 20171 minWhere to go to learn about Azure securityI regularly get asked by IT professionals and InfoSec personnel alike on where to start when it comes to Azure security. There is so much...
Dana EppDec 23, 20171 minAzure security checklistsI found a couple of good security checklists for Azure worth checking out. The first is the Azure operational security checklist. Before ...
Dana EppDec 15, 20171 minAzure DDoS Protection Service Saw a great episode of "Azure Friday" with Scott Hanselman that discusses protecting applications on Azure from Distributed Denial of Ser...
Dana EppNov 25, 20171 minAzure Policy gets a facelift and new featuresSo Microsoft announced some serious updates and feature enhancements to Azure Policy. Included in this is a new UI which included continu...
Dana EppNov 15, 20171 minAzure SQL Database Threat Detection & AuditingAzure SQL Database Threat Detection provides an additional layer of security intelligence built into the Azure SQL Database service. It h...
Dana EppNov 7, 20173 minUnderstanding audit logging in AzureAuditing and logging of security-related events, and related alerts, are important components in an effective data protection strategy. S...
Dana EppOct 31, 20171 minNeed to move tons of data to Azure? Check out Azure Data Box!This is pretty cool. Microsoft figured out a way to overcome the data transfer barriers that can block moving to the Microsoft cloud. Cal...
Dana EppOct 23, 20171 minSQL Azure now supports Transparent Data Encryption with Bring Your Own KeysI just stumbled upon an announcement from last month where Microsoft has released the preview of Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with B...
Dana EppOct 15, 20171 minMicrosoft partners up with the Center of Internet Security to deliver hardened VMs in AzureI saw something last week that was interesting that I am just getting to blog about now. It appears Microsoft has partnered with the Cent...
Dana EppOct 6, 20171 minThreat modeling your Azure PaaS applicationI recently stumbled across an interesting article in the Azure Security documentation on building PCI compliant Payment Processing enviro...
Dana EppSep 22, 20171 minKeep credentials out of code: Introducing Azure AD Managed Service IdentityI've been waiting for this to go public. Last week Microsoft announced the preview of Azure Active Directory Managed Service Identity (MS...
Dana EppSep 14, 20171 minIntroducing Azure confidential computingThis is interesting. Microsoft has announced that they are introducing the capability of offering a protection that to date has been mis...
Dana EppSep 4, 20171 minDisabling Server Message Block Version 1 (SMB v1) in AzureWell this is refreshing. The Azure security team has made the decision to disable SMB v1 by default on all Windows operating system image...
Dana EppAug 31, 20171 minMicrosoft introduces more secure defaults for Azure StorageNow this I like to see! Microsoft has announced that going forward by default encryption will now be turned on for Azure Blobs, Files, Ta...
Dana EppAug 18, 20171 minHuge growth in hackers targeting Microsoft's cloud So when Microsoft released the latest edition of the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (SIR Volume 22) it had 2 key findings in the ...
Dana EppJul 25, 20171 minAI for security: Microsoft Security Risk Detection makes debutThis is why I love the Microsoft Cloud. Microsoft has released a cloud service that uses artificial intelligence to track down bugs in so...
Dana EppJul 15, 20171 minHow to encrypt your VM disks in AzureIf you are running infrastructure in Azure you really should be taking advantage of Azure Disk Encryption. It leverages Bitlocker for Win...
