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Welcome back to another post - this time we are talking about antipatterns. If you don’t know what an antipattern is, we can describe it as almost the polar opposite of best practice, put into a pattern. [Read More]

In this post, we will go over how to simply add a Graph API permission to a managed identity. You can view the permissions from the Enterprise Application blade in Entra ID, but not add any new permissions. Instead we have to use Powershell. [Read More]

To briefly prepare you for what you are about to read and the context in which it is written; I work for an MSSP and have been working primarily with Microsoft Sentinel and the Microsoft stack since the release of Sentinel. Some of the things I will talk about and... [Read More]

Cloud infrastructure is by nature complex, and it’s constantly changing (at least the names, looking at you Defender 365 XDR). At least, it seems that way. Truth is, security in itself hasn’t evolved a lot. Basic security, according to the Microsoft Digital Defense Report from 2023 can help us protect... [Read More]

In this post, we will go over how to download Azure DevOps repositories using a Managed Identity and REST API. This is a follow-up to the post on how to authenticate to Azure DevOps using a Managed Identity. [Read More]