Test Yourself Part 1: Identity

Some tips, tricks and tools to help you get started testing your own infrastructure. This is the part 1 where we'll look into identity and how you can test it.

In the last article called ā€œTest Yourself: The Preludeā€, we talked about some basic principles of security that we need to keep in mind moving forward. In this blog, weā€™re going to focus on identity and how you can start making sure youā€™re secure in that area. If you havenā€™t... [Read More]
Tags: Cyber Security, Entra ID, Security Monitoring, Entra ID, Azure, Microsoft 365

Hardening Entra ID

This is an update to a previous article I wrote on hardening Azure Active Directory. The idea of this update is to provide a table of default settings that I would change in any Entra ID-tenant I manage.

The layout for this article will be quite straightforward. I will create a table for each setting-menu and list the settings I would change. I will also provide a short explanation for why I would change the setting, as well as what the setting is by default. [Read More]
Tags: Microsoft Sentinel, Entra ID, Hardening, Logging, App registration, Enterprise applications, Consent

Security Monitoring - Threat Modeling and Data Sources

One of the most misunderstood aspects of security monitoring is determining what data sources to use for what purpose. In this post, we will go through the process of determining what data sources to use for what purpose, where to prioritize developing use cases and how to plan for the future.

The idea that ingesting all the data and enabling all the use cases is the best approach to security monitoring is something we have explored time and time again here on this blog. So I thought, instead of just ranting about it, letā€™s show you how I would go about... [Read More]
Tags: Security Monitoring, Log Management, SIEM, Use Cases, Microsoft Sentinel