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The Economic Impact of Cybersecurity
In the 21st century digital age, the need to protect our data and infrastructures from malicious attacks has become crucial not only for individual users, but also for the global economy as a whole. The rapid increase in cyber attacks … Read More
Microsoft Defender for Containers UX unreliability while using policy initiatives for auto-provisioning
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
Automatically enable Microsoft Defender plans using Azure Policy
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
Unforeseen Azure Defender for IoT costs, pricing explained
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
Exempt Azure Security Center recommendations from your secure score on subscription and management group level
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
Get insight into your Azure RBAC role assignments
Recently several attacks have been in the news. As a result of this, I received various questions from people with regards to role assignments in their Azure environment: Who exactly has which rights within my Azure environment?At which level are … Read More