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Category Archives: Identity & Access Control
Az-500: Quick notes on AAD hybrid identity
Recently I got a question from a friend regarding Azure Active Directory hybrid identity option. The question was part of his exam in Az-500 Microsoft Azure Security Technologies. In this article, I’d like to provide a bit about the AAD … Continue reading
Azure ARM Template for VM Creation with AAD Sign-in
Microsoft recently released a public preview of a new capability in Azure allowing to sign in to Windows virtual machine using Azure AD account. Previously you would need several steps to complete the deployment of joining your virtual machine to … Continue reading
Catching sign-in activity of global admin
I got a question from a community friend asking about enabling an alert on his tenant whenever a global administrator ‘s sign-in occurs, or at least someone being granted global administrator role performs sign-in. You may end up thinking about … Continue reading
Azure Firewall Role-Based Access Control
Role-based access control in Azure allows you to control fine-grained permissions to specific resources. In the scenario of controlling Azure Firewall, you would need to have custom role definition to give which permission to whom. In this article, let’s have … Continue reading
Getting Azure AD access token via REST Call
Part of Azure experiment, one of my colleagues started playing with Azure API Management last week. He was interested with what I introduced about the service, including API gateway, API publishing portal to readable policies to manipulate inbound request before … Continue reading
Connect to Azure AD using Microsoft Account with PowerShell
Microsoft Account is considered not an internal account given to Microsoft employee. Microsoft account is associated to external services such as Live Mail, Skype, Xbox or so on. When connecting to Azure AD with Microsoft Account (e.g. LiveID) , you … Continue reading
Brute-force attack mitigation on Microsoft Azure
Brute-force attack is simply to continuously attempt to discover your password by combining all possible passwords it can guess. That said, human can guess a password by trying to brainstorm all possibilities such as birthday, girlfriend name, a memorable location or … Continue reading
Enable Multi-factor authentication on the Azure Management Portal
Multi-factor authentication means by its name, giving one more step of authentication to protect your account. The authentication step can be a time-based one-time password sent from a cloud authentication provider such as Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator. The authentication step … Continue reading