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In my previous article I gave a first glance of Microsoft Search from an Administrator’s point of view. Let’s turn to the end user’s point of view for the Microsoft Search experience that is through Bing.com To search against your Office 365, you must login with your 0365 account. Enter your search terms in the …
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At Microsoft Ignite 2018, the new Microsoft Search has been announced for a more enterprise search across some key Office 365 services. You can read the official announcement in this blog post: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2018/09/24/microsoft-search-cohesive-search-that-intelligently-helps-you-find-discover-command-and-navigate/ More often than not, when I’m in requirements, strategy or solution planning meetings with large organizations, stakeholders desire a “Google-like” experience that searches across all Office 365 services and even …
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Continuing from the previous post Penetration Testing Your Web App with Azure Application Gateway WAF Part 2: OWASP ZAP Tool, I will show how to query the WAF logs using Azure Log Analytics as it provides near real-time monitoring. To get a more comprehensive implementation of Log Analytics you can read my other blog series …
Continuing from my last post Penetration Testing Your Web App with Azure Application Gateway WAF Part 1: Intro, I will demonstrate a very simple penetration test. Thanks to Tanya Janca (@shehackspurple), an OWASP specialist, who suggested I try out the OWASP ZAP tool. “The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of the world’s most popular free …
In setting up an application with appliances that provide protections from cyber threats, it is always necessary to have penetration testing and monitoring throughout the solution's lifecycle management. I will demonstrate the following scenario: Protect your web app using Azure Application Gateway’s Web Application Firewall features. Enable and configure the WAF The web app is …
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To continue in building upon the scenarios of this blog series, I will show how to create an Azure Alert for a VMs that have an average CPU utilization greater than 90% over a 10 minute period. And continuing to leverage Log Analytics. Specifications Summary Alert on any VM that has an average CPU utilization …
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As shown in the previous post Monitoring Azure Virtual Machines with Log Analytics Part 3: Dashboard, another option to display a form of dashboard is using Log Analytics Custom Views. The collection of views can be found in your log analytics workspace in the Workspace summary blade. For example, the views shown are a bunch of …
