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  • Azure Lighthouse & Sentinel at Scale – Part 3

    Azure Lighthouse & Sentinel at Scale – Part 3

    In this post we continue our exploration of enabling multitenant management with scalability, higher automation, and enhanced governance across resources. Let’s jump right in this week and learn about the best practices and security baseline of using Azure Lighthouse. This is the last in a mini-series of three posts about Azure Lighthouse and Sentinel at…

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  • Azure Lighthouse & Sentinel at Scale – Part 2

    Azure Lighthouse & Sentinel at Scale – Part 2

    In this post we continue our exploration of enabling multitenant management with scalability, higher automation, and enhanced governance across resources. Let’s jump right in this week and learn about delegation using Azure Lighthouse in enterprise scenarios and how an MSP might use delegation to optimize SOC operations. Join me for a good look at delegation…

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  • Azure Lighthouse & Sentinel at Scale

    Azure Lighthouse & Sentinel at Scale

    In this post we begin to explore enabling multitenant management with scalability, higher automation, and enhanced governance across resources. I think an Azure Lighthouse walk-through is long overdue here, so let’s get ready to talk about how to scale operations or a SOC to manage multiple tenants, enhance governance, all delivered using native Azure tooling!…

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  • Sentinel Health Data Visualization & Reporting

    Sentinel Health Data Visualization & Reporting

    A common challenge after deploying Microsoft Sentinel has been how to keep track of your Data Connector health status. Last article, we explored getting a handle on our Microsoft Sentinel data connectors health. This week, we look visualizing and using that data with Sentinel Workbooks.

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  • Sentinel Data Connector Health Monitoring

    Sentinel Data Connector Health Monitoring

    A common challenge after deploying Microsoft Sentinel has been how to keep track of Data Connectors health. Today, we take a look at getting a handle on how to start monitoring our Microsoft Sentinel data connectors health.

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  • M365 Operating Guide for Sec Ops Teams – Use with Microsoft Sentinel

    M365 Operating Guide for Sec Ops Teams – Use with Microsoft Sentinel

    When building out a SOC team, many organizations quickly realize that there are very few silos left in IT when it comes to cloud. Our SOC members need to have cloud platform skills, M365, Exchange, Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, Windows Server, REHL, and so many more skills. To say this a different way; our…

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  • Set Log Analytics Workspace Data Cap

    Set Log Analytics Workspace Data Cap

    Let’s take a look at setting data ingestion caps in an Azure Log Analytics workspace today. There are different reasons why we may want to limit the data coming into our storage account, today we look at both setting the data cap, and alerting us when that data cap is reached through Azure Monitor alerting.

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  • Azure Updates – Number 36 – May 7, 2022

    Azure Updates – Number 36 – May 7, 2022

    A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Released May 7, 2022.

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  • Azure Updates – Number 22 – October 23, 2021

    Azure Updates – Number 22 – October 23, 2021

    A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Released October 23, 2021.

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  • Azure Updates – Number 6 – March 13, 2021

    Azure Updates – Number 6 – March 13, 2021

    A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Released March 13th. Great updates and sunny days on the way!

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