Harri Jaakkonen

Microsoft Entra External ID’s (Preview)

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 25/05/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, IAM, Identity, Identity Platform, Security

Or Azure AD for customers, yes Azure AD for customers. That’s the name of the game. Microsoft released this excellent feature at Build yesterday and I wanted to elaborate it a bit more. Why to use it? Azure AD makes…

Section 11 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel – Manage Microsoft Sentinel analytics rules

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 21/05/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Microsoft Sentinel, SC-200, Security, Study guide

11th section starting with more and more Sentinel. Already in this series we saw that how the different pieces are connected and helping you SOC teams to proactively work on threats. So let’s do some designs and configurations. Design and…

Section 10 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel – Plan and implement the use of data connectors for ingestion of data sources

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 07/05/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure ARC, Azure Policy, Defender, Identity, Microsoft Sentinel, SC-200, Security, Study guide

And in this 10th section on my SC-200 study guide we will go through the following topics. Identify data sources to be ingested for Microsoft Sentinel On August 31, 2024, the Log Analytics agent is deprecated. You should begin preparing…

Section 9 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Sentinel – Design and configure a Microsoft Sentinel workspace

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 30/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Defender, SC-200, Security, Study guide

We are already at the 9th section on my study guide and this time we will start with Sentinel. First I want to point the Ninja training that Ofer Shezaf’s and him team has made for you. It was updated…

Azure AD Application proxy and some previews

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 26/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Application Proxy, Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Entra, Hybrid, Identity, Identity Platform, On-premises, Security

Azure AD Application proxy is an essential tool for providing access to your on-premises applications. In the past you could use it as a reverse proxy to internal Web-based (accessible with browser) applications and you could define One URI per…

Section 8.2 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud – Configure and respond to alerts and incidents in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 23/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Defender, Identity, SC-200, Security, Study guide

And this is the second part of 8th section on my study guide and today we are looking at recommendations and the alerts and incidents it will create. Again by apologies to all that had to wait as I cut…

Section 8.1 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud – Configure and respond to alerts and incidents in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 16/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Defender, SC-200, Security, Study guide

Already in the 8th section on my study guide and today we are looking alerts, automation workflows and remediations. And because this is an huge section to cover, I will cut it in two different posts, my apologies for the…

Azure AD External Identities with SAML IdP part 2 of 2

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 12/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Authentication methods, Azure, Azure AD, Azure B2B, Azure B2C, Identity, Identity Platform, Security

In this part we will see the end-user experience and what you could use instead of Direct federation. SAML-based External IdP can be also done with federating your cloud-based domains. The idea and the concept is the same but in…

Section 7 – Mitigate threats using Microsoft Defender for Cloud – Plan and implement the use of data connectors for ingestion of data sources in Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 09/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure ARC, Azure Automation, Defender, Identity, Microsoft Graph, On-premises, SC-200, Security, Study guide

Continuing the journey with Defender for cloud. This time we will see Data source, how to onboard Azure resources and Azure ARC integration. With the exponential rise of cloud services, companies now place a high priority on protecting cloud workloads….

Azure (AD) recommendations with some explanations

Posted by Harri Jaakkonen Posted on 08/04/2023 0 Comments

Posted in Azure, Azure AD, Azure Policies, Defender, Identity, Identity Platform, Microsoft Graph, Security

This post is on recommendations, so here is my personal red alert type recommendation for all. You still have 83 days, give or take to establish a migration from ADAL to MSAL. Read from more Learn In the past months…

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