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Azure Subscription Strategies
See also Top Governance Practices on Azure Subscriptions Subscription Layout Considerations Workload separation strategy As an organization adds new workloads to the cloud, different ownership of subscriptions or basic separation…
Azure Security Audits – What should be included?
Also read Governance Tasks for any Azure Subscription - Azure Data Protection Services Overview What should you include in a detailed cloud security audit? This post focuses on an Azure…
Azure Data Protection Native Services
Which service in Azure should you use for different types of data protection? Database encryption - SQL TDE and Always Encrypt, built into the SQL Server Engine File encryption -…
Next Gen Firewalls for Cloud Hosted Resources
Also read Azure Firewall versus NSGs and GCP Firewall Policies versus VPC Firewall Rules Traffic Filtering is what Next Gen Firewalls provide ( Palo Alto). Whether you need Next Gen…
Azure Firewall versus NSGs
Also read A Reusable Hub Spoke Network Design on Azure NSGs at instance level and at Subnet Level NSG rules can become difficult to manage in larger VNETs with multiple…
Azure Firewall versus NSGs
NSGs are layer 3 and layer 4 rules - that are also true ALLOW DENY rules, just like in any firewall appliance Azure Firewall - is Layer 3, 4 and…
GCP Foundation via Terraform
Google has put out a few examples of cloud foundational components - integrated into a single terraform solution that is called from a bootstrap module. Need an experienced AWS/GCP/Azure…
Backup and Recovery AWS, Azure or GCP
Backup and recovery conversations often get derailed. While everyone understands RTO and RPO, it is hard to apply these metrics in a granular fashion. To that end, it is better…
Azure Security Architect – Security Guardrails
What are some azure specific guardrails that need to be in place for a safe landing? Before you migrate even a single workload, you may want to address some of…
Azure Cloud Shell
Where is the Storage Coming From? It comes from containers already running on Azure. When you click on the Azure Cloud Shell icon, your cloud shell connects to one of…