Category: Governance

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Compliance in the Cloud: Navigating Azure Security Standards

In today’s article, we explore the digital landscape that businesses face, there are strict regulatory requirements for securing sensitive data, ensuring privacy, and maintaining compliance with industry and government mandates. Whether you’re a startup, enterprise, or regulated entity, Microsoft Azure offers a robust suite of security and compliance solutions designed to simplify compliance management and enhance security posture. We’ll explore some foundations and remove the complexity of how to track your compliance in Microsoft Azure.

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Top Azure Services for Supporting Small Businesses

In today’s digital-first world, small businesses must leverage cost-effective, scalable, and secure cloud solutions to stay competitive. Microsoft Azure offers a powerful ecosystem of cloud services that can help businesses improve efficiency, security, and innovation without requiring extensive technical expertise. One of the biggest advantages of Azure and Microsoft Cloud is the ability to toggle (scale) up or down with your business. I’ve always felt that cloud-based secure identity is a huge advantage, and Entra ID makes it easy to support all the advanced security features without dragging the traditional big costs along.

Posted on 6:44 am
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Securing Azure Environments: Best Practices

In today’s cloud-powered world, businesses must prioritize security and compliance to safeguard their Azure environments from cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Azure provides a robust suite of security tools and best practices to help organizations fortify their cloud infrastructure, maintain regulatory compliance, and ensure operational resilience. In this post we explore some of the Best Practices for securing Azure environments and walk through the basics of Zero Trust in Azure.

Whether you’re an Azure architect, security engineer, or IT leader, this guide offers comprehensive strategies for securing your deployments, backed by Microsoft’s recommendations. There are many cross-referenced resources from Microsoft’s Security Adoption Framework to help get you started with your Azure security Journey.

Posted on 7:05 am
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Azure Security Features Explained: Protecting Your Data with Microsoft’s Robust Framework

In today’s digital world, securing sensitive information is a top priority for organizations. Microsoft Azure, one of the leading cloud platforms, offers a comprehensive suite of security features designed to safeguard your data from internal and external threats. This is supported by a solid suite of Security SaaS offerings in the Defender stack, Azure Firewall, network security groups, web application firewalls, and so much more! (But wait — there’s more!) In this article, we’ll explore these features step by step, providing insights on how to implement them effectively.

Today we jump into protecting data in Azure using Microsoft’s native security tooling.

Posted on 7:02 am
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Strengthening Your Security Posture: The Role of Zero Trust Architecture

In today’s digital landscape, traditional security measures are no longer enough to safeguard sensitive data and resources. Cyber threats are evolving, and organizations must adapt to stay resilient. Enter Zero Trust Architecture—a security framework that’s gaining traction for its ability to mitigate modern risks effectively. Today we explore Zero Trust a bit more, and some simple steps to begin shaping your own organization towards a more secure-by-design mindset.

Posted on 7:03 am
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Microsoft Sentinel Governance Deep-Dive Part 2

This week continues our look at an ongoing set of Governance tasks that we can do to keep our Sentinel instances working smoothly and helping our SOC team stay focused on handling Incidents and threat hunting. Today we continue our detailed look at not only what to review, but walking through the steps together. In today’s article we will review even more deep-dive details on how to optimize and maintain your Sentinel instances in a meaningful and optimized fashion. This week, we talk data management, automations, and RBAC.

Posted on 7:10 am
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Microsoft Sentinel Governance Deep-Dive

This week we continue our mini-series looking at Sentinel Governance tasks that we can do to keep our favourite SIEM/SOAR solution working smoothly to detect attacks and providing visibility into threats to our environments. Sentinel is like having a superhero team that protects your enterprise from cyber threats! 🦸‍♂️🦸‍♀️

Posted on 6:55 am
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Microsoft Sentinel Governance Overview

This week I take a brief look at some ongoing Governance tasks that we can do to keep our Sentinel instances working smoothly and helping our SOC team have a better day. Making a living finding needles in a haystack can be hard, let’s look at some best practices for governance to help our SOC team focus on finding those little clues!

Posted on 7:33 am
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Fortifying Your Cyber Defenses: Preventing Unmanaged Device Compromises

In the evolving landscape of cyber threats, ransomware operators are increasingly targeting unmanaged devices. These devices, including personal devices used for work-related tasks, often lack the robust security measures found in managed systems. Understanding these evolving threats and taking proactive steps to protect your organization is paramount. Today, our article delves into the challenges posed by unmanaged device compromises and offers comprehensive, actionable measures to bolster your defenses.

Posted on 7:23 am
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Strengthening Cyber Defenses Against Modern Threats

In today’s digital age, cyber threats have evolved into sophisticated attacks that exploit vulnerabilities on an unprecedented scale. It’s crucial to understand these threats and take proactive steps to protect your organization. In this article, we explore the evolving landscape of cybercrime and provide actionable measures to safeguard your digital assets. Today, we continue our journey through Microsoft’s Digital Defense Report 2023 and look at some actionable steps that can be taken to improve your organization’s security posture.

Posted on 8:18 am