I recently switched job and was reminded during the induction trainings to use secure passwords and it recommended me of how I generated my passwords securely. With ever increasing threats and hacks, one way to secure your assets is to use secure passwords that is not easy for anyone to guess but at the same […]
The following code can help you fetch Azure recommendations from all you subscriptions in your tenancy. I you are a CSP, the customer subscriptions should be visible under your tenancy due to the CSP delegation. If a single account has access to multiple tenancies, without having to use the CSP delegation you can also set […]
You can not always prevent Public IP addresses on Virtual Machines. Brute force attacks commonly target management ports 22 for SSH and 3389 for RDP as a means to gain access to virtual Machines. Attackers keep scanning Public Ip addresses and open ports to attack vulnerabilities to gain access. If the virtual machine is not […]
Power BI is a great tool from Microsoft which makes it easy to create reports and send them out on scheduled intervals. The ability to pick log analytics data and build reports from them is what we are going to explore today in this blog article. Prerequisites Step 1: Verify you have some logs captured […]
Azure Bastion is a great product and I have been using it for a while now. It is easy to deploy and manage. During a recent discussion with a Cloud Architect “Guacamole” was mentioned to me as an alternative to Bastion. I thought of trying it in Azure. Before I could find the steps and […]
Azure Log Analytics is a great tool. Building queries with Kusto and using them for Alerts, Dashboards and other automation is pretty easy especially with its advanced capabilities. There are several great features which are not very commonly known, one of them being the ability to access logs from external sources and run Kusto queries. […]
Here is a quick Powershell tip to get a list of role assignments on all resources across multiple subscriptions and tenants. The single script exports role assignments into a CSV file that can be later filtered with Microsoft Excel. Checking permissions on resources through portal may be a time consuming process hence this script can […]
I have worked with various different scripting languages and came across a script I had worked on about 6 years ago while working on an NTDebugging blog at Microsoft. Honestly I became nostalgic remembering the kind of work me and my team at Microsoft used to do back in the day. While working on the […]
While working for different organizations, reading articles, discussions at meetups and with fellow architects, engineers and consultants I have come across some key challenges faced in the Devops environments. In this article I am presenting my thoughts. 1. Building a strong and motivated team This is probably the biggest challenge the IT industry faces today. […]