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Cyber security awareness month: How about a card game?
Awareness

Cyber security awareness month: How about a card game?

Every year we do the little extra dance to spread cyber security awareness around us, and every year this is usually centered around phishing or passwords - which is fair; it's what we encounter the most. But - how about trying something like a game about security?

· 3 min read
Break-the-glass: Can you?

Break-the-glass: Can you?

Establishing break-the-glass accounts is a well-established practice and recommendation. But do you make sure it actually is usable if the worst would happen?

· 6 min read
PIM without the pilgrimage

PIM without the pilgrimage

This is one of those minor frustrations that are actually quite annoying: You have access to several tenants and need to activate PIM roles. This means a pilgrimage through the Azure portal and switching between tenants and performing the activations. But it doesn't have to be like this.

· 3 min read
Protecting against Device Code phishing
Security

Protecting against Device Code phishing

Device code phishing is on the rise and normal measures don't seem to help - not even phishing resistant MFA. Why is that? How does this technique even work? What can actually be done?

· 10 min read
How apps can become first-class citizens in Microsoft Sentinel
Security

How apps can become first-class citizens in Microsoft Sentinel

Many applications that are developed either as an in-house application or a SaaS offering often provide functionality that are useful or even essential for Security Operations Center to have insight into. So, how can we offer a direct integration into security solutions?

· 10 min read
Application-level monitoring and SOC
Security

Application-level monitoring and SOC

There is a fundamental difference between application-level and OS-level monitoring. The latter is easier as there is a common understanding how they work. However, applications have their own personalities - how does a SOC even begin to handle them?

· 4 min read
I made a n8n node for Microsoft Defender
Security

I made a n8n node for Microsoft Defender

While testing n8n for use with Microsoft Defender, I found that there was no integrations available for the Microsoft Defender API - so I made my own. Let me show you how it works.

· 3 min read
OFFPAD+ - A review
Security

OFFPAD+ - A review

A simple review of the OFFPAD+ device which has helped me ditch the QR-code fatigue and just make phishing-resistant MFA easier and more intuitive to use daily.

· 7 min read
Vulnerability deep-dive with KQL
Vulnerability management

Vulnerability deep-dive with KQL

In some cases, Microsoft Defender will report vulnerable software in your organization but the device(s) are patched - so why is it reporting as vulnerable? Certain software gets

· 4 min read
Detection rules as code
Security

Detection rules as code

With the introduction of the msgraph-provider, it is now quite easy to deploy your custom detection rules to Microsoft Defender fully automatically using Terraform. The immediate benefit

· 4 min read
Entra ID role definitions - an introduction

Entra ID role definitions - an introduction

Microsoft's Entra ID has a ever-growing list of built-in role definitions and you can even create your own. But how do they actually work?

· 4 min read
Entra ID Conditional Access: Sign-in Frequency gotcha

Entra ID Conditional Access: Sign-in Frequency gotcha

The general idea of Sign-in Frequency condition in the Entra ID Conditional Access seems very appealing: When you have a scenario where a user wants to activate

· 2 min read