Encrypt your Azure VM with Azure Disk Encryption https://ift.tt/2VtgtUi When you deploy virtual machines in Microsoft Azure, they come without Bitlocker enabled. That can be a problem regarding your corporate security policy. To encrypt your Windows Azure VM (or Linux with DM-Crypt), we can leverage Azure Disk Encryption (ADE). ADE provides volume encryption of Azure […]

Transition a highly available RD Gateway to use the NPS Extension for Azure MFA – Phase II https://ift.tt/3lC9keL Introduction In this article series, we transform a highly available RD Gateway deployment into one protected with MFA. In phase I, we address how we will change and prepare the existing deployment for NPS Extension for Azure […]

How to use Azure Sentinel for Incident Response? https://ift.tt/3zHYMyw Azure Sentinel becomes a very popular SIEM platform for security IT teams to handle a growing number and complexity of security incidents. The SIEM platform is mandatory to be informed when an incident became true. But what about the incident response? This part is managed by […]

Quick tips for shares and file migrations with share and NTFS permissions https://ift.tt/3kMG58P In this post we’ll try to give you some tips when you need to do share migration with files and folders, or migrate user profiles. Usually, the requirements are that the end user should not know that anyone migrated his/her files. Permissions […]

SMB over QUIC Testing Guide – Part II https://ift.tt/36OzkuO Introduction In part I, we explained what SMB over QUIC is and how it works. We also prepared the certificate needed. Here we dive into setting up and configuring SMB over QUIC for testing. We will show you how to configure SMB over QUIC with Windows […]

Use Azure Policy to Allow Only Certain Resource Types in Resource Groups https://ift.tt/3iuDQEp In medium to large deployments, you may want to create resource groups for some kinds of resources. For example, you can create a resource group for network resources while another resource group is used for virtual machines. This way of managing resources can be […]

How to Setup Multi-Factor Authentication for SSH in Linux https://ift.tt/2UmqFgd The importance of systems security cannot be denied in the field of information security. Taking effective preventive measures helps you safeguard your systems from unauthorized access. There are many traditional ways to make your systems secure by using strong passwords, private keys, or by using […]

SMB over QUIC Testing Guide – Part I https://ift.tt/3iavEJa Introduction QUIC is a recent secure networking transport on top of UDP. This and TLS 1.3 form the basis for HTTP/3. It has many benefits compared to HTTP/2 over TCP with TLS 1.2 or TLS 1.3. I have written about SMB over QUIC before in QUIC, […]

Hotpatch for Azure VM https://ift.tt/2QPSnA9 Hotpatching in Azure is a preview feature that enables to apply updates without restarting Windows Server Azure VM. This new feature relies on Windows Server Azure Edition VM which is a new Windows Server image. This feature is available in preview for all Azure regions. Some providers need to be […]

Migrate from one region to another with Azure Resource Mover https://ift.tt/3sEobpI Microsoft introduced some month ago a new feature to move resources from a region A, to a region B. The full documentation is available here: What is Azure Resource Mover? | Microsoft Docs As you can see, at this time, we have some resources […]