Introduction Hello everyone, My name is Andrew Coughlin, and I am a Cloud Solutions Architect at Microsoft, specializing in Azure Infrastructure. In my role, I assist customers with utilizing Azu...

In today’s cybersecurity landscape, organizations face an ever-evolving set of threats targeting privileged accounts. These accounts often have elevated permissions, making them a high-value target f...

Hi all! Jerry here again to continue the AD hardening series.   This time I want to address the concept of least privilege as it applies to Active Directory.  Of the three principles of Zero Trust (v...

In this blog post, I will explain how to utilize advanced hunting APIs to bypass the 30,000 rows limit in Defender XDR's advanced hunting feature. Before we delve into the topic, let’s understand wha...

Understanding ARM Templates ARM templates are JSON files that define the resources needed for your applications. They allow for infrastructure as code, making deployment and management more efficie...

Hello Everyone, In this blog, we will explore passkeys, a phishing-resistant, Passwordless authentication method based on the Fast Identity Online (FIDO2) standard, now available in Entra ID. With th...

I am Farooque Mohammad, and I have been working with Microsoft for the last 6.5 years. I primarily work on Identity & Security. This is my first blog, and I want to dive into Entra ID Continuous Acce...

In Hamburg on the M.A.D. Day (Modern Application Deployment) we could announce that App-V is no longer being deprecated – The Client and the Sequencer. But the Server will still go away. With this ...

Internet Information Services (IIS) stores user activity in log files (“IIS logs”). These logs can be useful for many purposes, from simple retention, statistical analysis and site mapping through to...

Overview of the Application The Azure Storage Manager is a console application that handles two main tasks: verifying data integrity and ensuring secure authentication. Here's a summary of its featu...