governance
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Azure Updates – Number 144 – August 22, 2026
A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, Security Copilot and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes.
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Microsoft Sentinel Baseline Deployment: From Zero to Operational SOC – Summer Bonus!
Microsoft Sentinel is powerful—but it can’t manage itself. Manual operations like onboarding data connectors, validating ingestion, monitoring workspace health, and auditing configuration changes quickly become a burden. This bonus article walks through building automation around your Sentinel foundations, so you can: Keep your workspaces healthy Ensure configuration compliance Alert on critical changes Free SOC engineers…
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Enforcing Compliance with Azure Policy
You will quickly realize that cloud environments can scale faster than governance can keep up—leading to misconfigurations, security gaps, and cost inefficiencies. Azure Policy acts as your automated compliance enforcer, ensuring that all deployed resources adhere to organizational standards. This article explains how Azure Policy helps maintain control without slowing innovation. You will learn how…
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud Use Case: Governance Rules in Action
Security at scale isn’t just about visibility—it’s about enforcement. As organizations grow their cloud footprint across multiple subscriptions, management groups, and even cloud providers, maintaining consistent security posture becomes exponentially harder. Enter Governance Rules in Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC). These rules allow security teams to define, enforce, and monitor security policies across their environment…
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Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Deep Dive
In today’s cloud-first world, security isn’t just a checkbox—it’s a continuous discipline. Microsoft Defender for Cloud is the cornerstone of Azure’s native security posture management and threat protection. Whether you’re running workloads in Azure, AWS, GCP, or on-premises via Azure Arc, Defender for Cloud provides unified visibility, intelligent recommendations, and active threat detection.
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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…
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Zero Trust with Microsoft Security Solutions: An Overview
In today’s rapidly evolving threat landscape, the traditional perimeter-based security model is no longer sufficient. As organizations adopt hybrid work environments, expand to the cloud, and connect countless devices, the attack surface grows exponentially. A “Zero Trust” security model offers a modern, proactive approach by assuming that no entity—whether inside or outside your network—can be…
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Azure Updates – Number 89 – May 4, 2024
A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, Security Copilot and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes.
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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…
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How much data is in my Azure Subscription
Ever wonder how much data is actually in your Azure Subscriptions? Today we take a brief look at how to find storage account totals. Join me for a little bit of Azure storage exploration!