by Emily | Jan 5, 2023 | Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Technology
Microsoft Defender for containers is a great product to easily add security to your AKS clusters and Azure Container Registries (ACR), both within your Azure infrastructure and for on-premises Kubernetes deployments and using Amazon EKS. The product offers you various...
by Emily | Nov 14, 2021 | Azure Policy, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Technology
I regularly come across Azure environments where the Microsoft Defender plans are not enabled, which is desired. In many cases, the cause can be found in manually managing the environment settings (former ‘Pricing Settings’), where all plans must be...
by Emily | Feb 2, 2021 | Azure Policy, Azure Security Center, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Technology
Some time ago I wrote about the possibility to exclude a specific resource from an Azure Security Center (ASC) security recommendation (Create an exemption rule to exclude a resource from a security recommendation). With which you can ensure that this resource has no...
by Emily | Oct 16, 2020 | Azure Policy, Key Vault, Technology
During discussions about Azure security, Azure Key Vault is regularly discussed. More and more organizations are aware that sensitive data such as secrets and keys can be stored here, while other resources can make use of it. But also the next question that often...
by Emily | Sep 29, 2020 | Azure Policy, Azure Security Center, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
Azure Defender includes vulnerability scanners to scan images in your Azure Container Registry and your virtual machines. Sometimes there is an organizational need to ignore a finding, rather than remediate it. Risks may have been lowered because you implemented a...
by Emily | Sep 25, 2020 | Azure Policy, Azure Security Center, Microsoft Defender for Cloud
A core priority of any security team is to ensure that the analysts can focus on the tasks and incidents that are important to the organization. Security Center has many features for customizing the information that you give the most priority to and ensuring that your...
