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On the Importance of Cost Management and Alerting in the Cloud

A year ago, I wrote a bit about Azure Arc and its use for non-Azure host management, and I also mentioned that the service was free at the time. And while it still is for the most part, update mana...

Leveraging Azure Blob Storage and Archive Tier for Efficient Long-Term Personal Backups

My on-premises (read, at home) file server recently crossed a total, parity-protected storage of 70 TB, and that’s starting to make me a little uncomfortable, but at the same time I fully understan...

MS Learn Exercise - Send and Receive Message From Azure Service Bus Queue Using .NET

Lately I’ve been going through the MS Learn modules for the AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions exam in preparation for the actual exam which I’ll be taking in a month or so,...

Identifying Security Threats on On-Premises Linux Servers with Microsoft Sentinel

A little while ago I wrote about adding on-premises servers or virtual servers to your tenant using Azure Arc, and in the article touched a little on Defender for Cloud and using it to protect work...

Storing Custom Encryption Keys in Azure Key Vault for VM Encryption

In my ongoing quest to turn assigned tasks into deeper dives into learning opportunities and blog content, this time I’m looking at enabling encryption on Azure resources, more specifically on VM d...

How to Get Started with Azure Arc and Azure Defender for Cloud

The other day like a week ago now, gosh, I took part in a webinar that gave an overview of Azure Arc and Azure Sentinel, and while I’ve recently been somewhat busy with Sentinel related things in g...

Automatically Closing Defender for Cloud Incidents After Azure Sentinel Ingestion

After enabling Azure Sentinel as the SIEM/SOAR solution and using Defender for Cloud as one of the data ingestion sources I found myself in a predictable-in-hindsight situation where I get the inci...

My SC-200 - Microsoft Security Operations Analyst Certification Renewal Experience

Back in the summer of last year I took part in the Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge during Microsoft Build, and managed to go through the material and earn a free certification attempt. I chose the...

Creating a Free Jekyll Blog using Azure Static Web Apps

As I’ve both written in the About section of the site and in my recent update about the status of the blog, the site got its start on AWS Amplify. AWS Amplify is “a set of purpose-built tools and f...

Blog and Personal Updates for 2023

Dear diary, looking at the update frequency of my blog, or more specifically lack of such, it’s safe to say that this year has been off to a very rocky start. As usual, lots has been going on, luck...