This topic is not new and quite frankly, it is hard to believe this is still not integrated yet, but at some point, during your cloud journey, you probably want to send monitoring alerts to a certain Teams channel. Even though this is functionality is available for plenty of other services, Azure Monitor still lacks this.

HashiCorp introcuded with Vault version 1.2 a new integrated Storage backend. It went into general availability with version 1.4 in April 2020. In November HashiCorp released Vault version 1.6 which includes further enhancements of the Raft storage backend. I took this opportunity to show how to create and restore Raft storage backend snapshots and share this with the community.

The Secret Management Solution HashiCorp Vault allows the Integration of a variety of Identity Providers. Although currently no direct Implementation for Human Users of Azure AD exists, the JWT/OIDC Auth Method provides a way to enable authentication and authorization for Azure AD Users to HashiCorp Vault. This post shows how to configure HashiCorp Vault to enable User Login with Azure AD Credentials as well as assigning Permissions/Policies based on their Group Memberships.

The Alert policies in O365 are an often overlooked or underestimated security feature for indicators of compromise (IOC). They enable especially administrators for smaller tenants to supervise their environments on a critical level in terms of security events. As part of a multilevel defense the O365 Alerts add a lot value, as they are easy to setup and part of every O365 and therefore free of additional costs.

At Microsoft Build 2020 lots of new updates and services were announced. Today we will take a look at a specific one that I am pretty excited about, Static Web Apps. Read on to learn what it is, how to use it and and why it helps us to reduce effort when deploying web applications to Microsoft Azure.

In this part of the series I want to talk about the most obvious and meaningful security measure for O365 – Multifactor authentication (MFA). The well-established technology can significantly reduce the attack surface of your organization and is easy to implement for O365 administrators. It should be your first line of defense against phishing and replay attacks in your security environment. In this article I want to talk about the technical/mathematical concept of the standard and show you how to activate the tool and its features in your tenant.