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  • Responding to Ransomware with Azure’s Security Tools

    Responding to Ransomware with Azure’s Security Tools

    Best practices for defending against ransomware with Microsoft’s security capabilities Ransomware isn’t just malware—it’s a breach. And in today’s threat landscape, it’s often human-operated, coordinated, and devastating. Microsoft Azure offers a layered defense strategy that combines proactive detection, rapid response, and resilient recovery. This article explores how to leverage Azure’s native security tools to build…

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  • Building Automation Rules with your Sentinel Instance in PowerShell

    Building Automation Rules with your Sentinel Instance in PowerShell

    Today, we explore creating custom Automation Rules in Microsoft Sentinel to help us auto-close low value incidents. Let’s look at how we can automatically close & impact incidents and make it all work using PowerShell!

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  • How to Build Custom Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rules

    How to Build Custom Microsoft Sentinel Analytics Rules

    Today, we expand on and explore rapid Microsoft Sentinel deployment using PowerShell. This model of repeatable, consistent, and fast deployments is a great way to help build our own skills up, and build a resilient and robust deployment method we can count on.

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  • Deploying Microsoft Sentinel with PowerShell – Part 2

    Deploying Microsoft Sentinel with PowerShell – Part 2

    Join me for Part 2 of deploying Microsoft Sentinel so that we can test different scenarios with data connectors, analytics rules, hunting queries, and automations. Together, we are building a way to quickly deploy Sentinel to allow testing and validations outside production.

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  • Deploying Microsoft Sentinel with PowerShell

    Deploying Microsoft Sentinel with PowerShell

    Join me in the latest walkthrough to quickly deploy Microsoft Sentinel so that we can test different scenarios with data connectors, analytics rules, hunting queries, and automations. This is an important idea – testing in non-production – that is often overlooked due to complexity of deployment. Come explore a great way to quickly deploy Sentinel…

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  • Where to find Incident Investigation Artifacts in M365

    Where to find Incident Investigation Artifacts in M365

    A common challenge that security teams face is simply not knowing where all the artifacts can be found during an investigation. Microsoft Defender tools are capable of collecting a lot of data, and that can create questions during investigations of where is all this data and how do I find it quickly? Join me for…

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  • Azure Updates – Number 29 – January 29, 2022

    Azure Updates – Number 29 – January 29, 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 January 29, 2022.

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  • Azure Updates – 28 – January 15, 2022

    Azure Updates – 28 – January 15, 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 January 15, 2022.

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  • Check your Azure Resource Usage against Limits

    Check your Azure Resource Usage against Limits

    In this article we will explore how to find your current usage of network resources against your subscription limits in Azure. This is helpful to both track current usage and plan for future usage. There are three ways to view this data, each with some variance on results; so let’s dive right in and find…

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  • How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 5 – PowerShell Templates

    How to Deploy Azure Virtual Machines – Part 5 – PowerShell Templates

    Using PowerShell to deploy a JSON template via GitHub is our final stop on deployment of Microsoft Azure virtual machines. We’ve looked at 4 other ways to deploy a VM in Azure so far and today we look at…

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