Episode 383 – Securing Azure: Monitoring and observing your Azure estate

Episode 383 – Securing Azure: Monitoring and observing your Azure estate

Welcome to Episode 383 of the Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast. In this episode we continue our discussion on security, transitioning from Microsoft 365 to Azure (Episode 382 – Securing the Modern Workplace: Exploring Microsoft Entra ID Security Defaults, Conditional Access Policies, and Microsoft Secure Score) to Microsoft Azure. We begin with Azure security logging and auditing, discussing the importance of capturing and analyzing security logs to detect and respond to potential threats. Next, we delve into Azure Monitor data sources and data collection methods. Azure Monitor provides a comprehensive set of tools to collect, analyze, and act on telemetry data from your cloud and on-premises environments. Finally, we discuss how the components of Azure Monitor can be used for managing and analyzing the vast amounts of data generated in your Azure environment. We’ll explore how this platform supports advanced analytics, helps you identify trends and anomalies, and enables proactive threat detection.

Whether you’re a cloud architect, security professional, or IT admin, this episode offers practical advice and strategies for leveraging observability to enhance your security posture in Azure. Tune in to discover how you can better protect your organization by implementing effective observability practices.

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Episode 360 – Who owns your data in Azure?

Episode 360 – Who owns your data in Azure?

In Episode 360, Ben laments about a change in the data processing for Azure Sentinel and Scott contributes some suggestions around Microsoft’s data processing policies and how customers can keep up to date on them along with some suggestions for how to manage your personal data in Log Analytics and Application Insights. Then they close out the show talking about how to track resource ownership over time for your Azure resources.

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Episode 357 – Community galleries for Azure Compute Gallery

Episode 357 – Community galleries for Azure Compute Gallery

In Episode 357, Ben and Scott run through the recently announced Community gallery capability that has been added to the Azure Compute Gallery service. They also take a few minutes to discuss the public preview of table-level RBAC read-access controls for your Log Analytics workspaces.

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Episode 318 – Application Health Extension and Azure Automation in VS Code

Episode 318 – Application Health Extension and Azure Automation in VS Code

In Episode 318, Ben and Scott talk about the Defender debacle from last week and then get into some new Azure previews, including rich application health states with Virtual Machine Scale Sets, the Azure Automation extension for VS Code, and the latest preview of change tracking and inventory management with the Azure Monitor Agent.

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