In this blog post we’ll dip our feet into the world of rootkits and bootkits and how we can defend ourselves against them in Azure. Azure Virtual Machine security has improved a lot since Windows Server 2016. Terms like Trusted…
I once bumped into a customer who said their Global Administrators all have the access elevation toggle switch permanently turned on, so that they all have the User Access Administrator role assigned at the root level all the time for…
I needed to check what accounts I have in my YubiKeys and do some housekeeping to delete unnecessary accounts. I figured there has to be some way to do this and found out that Yubico has a nifty command line…
Microsoft has set a date for deprecating basic authentication for client submissions (SMTP AUTH) in Exchange Online. That date is September 2025. In this blog post I will guide through what you need to know and what you need to…
There’s two takeaways in this blog post and I’m going to give them away right here in the beginning. According to Azure DevOps documentation all token data like SSH keys and personal access tokens (PATs) are stored in US region.…
Did you know that you can now delegate Azure RBAC assignments to ease your own burden as administrator? There has always been a possibility to assign Owner or User Access Administrator role, but what if you wanted to delegate the…
I’m fascinated by real-world events more than fictional stories. So, I chose to read about North Korean cyberattacks by investigative journalist Geoff White. The book proved to be a lot better then I anticipated! And I did anticipate it to…
Cloud security posture management (CSPM) can be a exhausting task. One would need to sleep one eye open to keep up with all the changes in the cloud and would still fall short. If your organization is in multi-cloud environment,…
As there are upcoming changes facing organizations starting July 1st 2024 when Microsoft starts the MFA enforcement rollout for user accounts (including guest users) that use Azure management logins, I thought it would be beneficial to go through the principals…
In my previous blog post, titled Microsoft enforces tenant-level MFA in July! What should I know?, we looked at the upcoming change where Microsoft is enforcing MFA upon all user accounts logging in to Azure management tools. This enforcing of…
