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S5E37 - Monitor and secure OAuth applications using App Governance Oct 25, 2024

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This week Alan and Sam discuss OAuth applications and their potential risks. Alan goes into how App Governance can give you the visibility of OAuth app and their usage. Here are a few things we covered:

What are OAuth Apps?
What are they typically used for?
why is it important to monitor them
How can App Governance help monitor and protect from OAuth App attacks?

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S5E36 - Mastering Azure Web Jobs: Automating Tasks in the Cloud Oct 11, 2024

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This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Web Jobs which is a feature of Azure App Service that allows developers to run background tasks, scripts, and long-running processes alongside their web applications, enabling automated workflows and task scheduling in the cloud. Here are a few things we covered:

An overview of Azure web jobs and use cases
Types of Web Jobs
Deployment and Integration
Monitoring and Scaling

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S5E34 - Secure Your Tokens: Defend Against Theft and Replay Attacks Sep 20, 2024

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In this episode, Sam and Alan dive deep into the world of token theft and token replay attacks. They explore what these threats are and discuss effective countermeasures to reduce the risk of token theft and prevent replay attacks. Here’s a breakdown of what they covered:

Understanding Authentication Tokens: What are they and why are they crucial for secure authentication?
Token Theft and Replay Attacks: An overview of how these attacks work and their potential impact on organisations.
Reducing Token Theft Risks: Practical strategies to minimize the chances of tokens being stolen.
Preventing Token Replay: Measures you can implement to block access when stolen tokens are reused.

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S5E29 - External Attack Surface Management - Identify your digital assets. Aug 16, 2024

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Alan and Sam talk about External Attack Surface Management (EASM) and how Microsoft's Defender EASM helps discover and monitor your digital assets. Here are a few things we covered:

What is External Attack Surface Management?
What is Defender EASM and how can it help identify your risks?
How do you setup Defender EASM?
how much does it cost?

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S5E28 - Azure Storage Accounts - Scalable, secure cloud storage for data objects Aug 09, 2024

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This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Storage Accounts which provide scalable, secure, and highly available cloud storage for various data types, including blobs, files, queues, and tables. It serves as a foundational service in Microsoft Azure, enabling applications to store and retrieve data efficiently across multiple redundancy options and access tiers, here is what we covered:

What is Azure Storage accounts and why are they useful?
What types of data do they support?
How do you create them? What are the configuration options?
How much do they cost?

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S5E21 - Microsoft updates May - new products and features released Jun 07, 2024

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This week, Alan and Sam talk about new features and services that have gone into Public Preview or General Available status in the last month. We dive into a couple of these updates that peaked our interest.

Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:

Build + RSA Updates
key Microsoft Entra and Defender features and updates
Lots of Azure changes and new features

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S5E20 - MDE Device Discovery - Find those unknown devices May 31, 2024

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Alan and Sam talk about why it is important to monitor your network for connected devices. Alan runs us through the benefits of doing it with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. Here are a few areas we covered:

Why is it important to monitor your network?
How can you find devices using Microsoft solutions?
What are the benefits of devices being discovered and searchable in the Defender XDR Portal
How is it licensed

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S5E17 - Azure Data Box - move big data to Azure efficiently May 10, 2024

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This week Alan and Sam discuss Azure Data Box. It is a ruggedised appliance designed to simplify the process of transferring large volumes of data to Azure cloud storage, offering high-speed data transfer and secure encryption. It enables organisations to overcome bandwidth limitations and easily migrate large datasets, ensuring efficient and reliable data transfer.

What is Azure Data Box?
What can you back up with it?
How does the process work?
How much does it cost?

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S5E16 - Microsoft updates April - new products and features released May 03, 2024

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Some of the Microsoft product features and update we covered:

FIDO2 authentication & Keypass
Security group provisioning to Active Directory using cloud sync
Unified security operations platform
New API Manager v2
App Service v1 and v2 environments retirement

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S2E17 - Microsoft Sentinel - Cloud-native SIEM and SOAR capabilities Oct 28, 2022

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Alan and Sam discuss how Microsoft Sentinel can help organisations have visibility of malicious activity in their environment. Alan takes the role of the 'Expert' and explains the capability of Microsoft Sentinel and how it is for any size organisation. Alan dives into the process from log ingestion to automated response to an incident.

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