Azure active directory conditional access policies allow to control user access to resources, based on the environment he/she login from. This is really important in modern day zero trust infrastructures. we no longer can depend on traditional firewall rules to control access as threats are more sophisticated. Conditional access policies allow to verify user access based on different conditions…
In Azure marketplace there are many different templates available for OS deployment. These are general purpose templates. But in corporate environment administrators use custom images for their OS deployments. These images are usually fine tuned for corporate requirements. Azure also allow to do the same. In Azure we can create custom images according to our requirements and use it to deploy…
In one of my previous article, I explain how we can create site-to-site VPN connection between local network and azure virtual network. This VPN connection is initiated in your edge firewall or router level. But what if you connecting from remote location such as home? we can use point-to-site method to do that. In this method it will use certificates to do the authentication between end point and…
When it comes to network security, we use firewalls for perimeter defense. It helps to define security boundaries for infrastructure. There are many conversations about validity of perimeter defense against modern security threats as its more about identities now. However, firewall is still the most commonly used tool to control in & out communications in a network.
In Azure so far, we were…
