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 … Read More
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 enabled … Read More
Recently I was confronted with the fact that a subscription with a spending limit was suddenly turned off by exceeding the budget. Because I did not know what caused this, I immediately delved into the cost analysis. Where I found … Read More
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 … Read More
Azure Defender provides security alerts and advanced threat protection for all kinds of workloads, like virtual machines, SQL databases, containers and web applications. New plans within Azure Defender are regularly introduced, recently for Key Vault and now also for Resource … Read More
Azure Defender provides security alerts and advanced threat protection for all kinds of workloads, like virtual machines, SQL databases, containers and web applications. New plans within Azure Defender are regularly introduced, recently for Key Vault and now also for DNS … Read More
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 … Read More
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 … Read More
Azure Security Center (ASC) is the center of many security-related features that are present within Azure. You can gain insight into the security status of your environment from 1 portal. Think of, for example, continuous assessments, regulatory compliance, security alerts, … Read More
Security Center periodically analyzes the security state of your Azure resources to identify potential security vulnerabilities. It then provides you with recommendations on how to remediate those vulnerabilities. Recommendations are actions for you to take in order to secure your resources. … Read More