I’ve been using Cloudflare’s free and fantastic 1.1.1.1 DNS service since it’s inception in 2018. The idea is that you configure your home network to… Read More »Insights: Protecting the home network with Cloudflare’s new (and free) 1.1.1.1 for Families, that now has malware blocking
I recently received a new laptop from work. It’s a Surface Book 2 (the 15″ model). It’s beyond great, although I’ve used it less in… Read More »Security awareness: Are you using separate laptops for work and personal use?
I’m writing this from the beautiful and sunny city of Prague, where I’m attending the European SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure Conference. It’s a 4-day… Read More »Building a monitoring solution for Power Platform events using PowerShell, C#, Azure Log Analytics, and Azure Sentinel
One of the many announcements Microsoft made during Ignite 2019 was the capability to add free SSL certificates to Web Apps on Azure. You can… Read More »Adding a free SSL certificate to an Azure Web App
I wrote about my experiences and challenges when building a secure remote access solution for Azure-based virtual machines back in February 2019. It’s one of… Read More »Building a secure remote access solution using Azure Bastion Host
Today, Microsoft announced that Azure Sentinel is now Generally Available (GA). What this means, is that Azure Sentinel can be used in production, the pricing… Read More »Understanding and getting started with Azure Sentinel
Yesterday, Microsoft announced Azure Lighthouse. This post will walk you through what the service is, what benefits it brings, and why you should start using… Read More »Azure Lighthouse – managing customer Azure tenants as a Service Provider
Many companies I interact with have expressed an interest in migrating their legacy SQL Server databases to Azure. Typically this is due to End of… Read More »Anonymizing and masking sensitive data in SQL databases before migrating to Azure SQL
I can’t quite remember when I started using a password manager, or which password manager it was at the time. As an IT Pro I’ve… Read More »One password to rule them all: Migrating to 1Password from KeePass and text files
[Update October 1, 2019: I’ve published another blog post on Azure Bastion Host, which complements the findings and services I go through in this post.… Read More »Building a secure remote access solution for Azure-based virtual machines using Azure AD and Windows Admin Center