Simon Angling

Last week Microsoft announced Microsoft Applied Skills which is new platform that uses lab-based assessments to assess a user’s proficiency in a practical manner rather than learning just the theory. I’ve completed over 50 Microsoft Certification exams over the years, and I could probably count the live lab environment based...

The Microsoft Security Copilot Early Access Program is an invite-only paid preview program of Microsoft's new security Copilot assistant and yesterday Microsoft released the public documentation on the Microsoft Learn. Microsoft Security Copilot documentation | Microsoft Learn Security Copilot is built using the OpenAI architecture and based on the demo's...

CIEM (Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management) is related to IAM (Identity and Access Management), PIM (Privileged Identity Management), and PAM (Privileged Access Management), but they all serve specific aspects of managing access and security,. and compliment each other in an organisation's IT environment, particularly in cloud and hybrid environments. Here's how...

Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (previously Microsoft Cloud App Security) is a CASB that supports various deployment modes and provides rich visibility, control, and analytics to combat cyberthreats across all Microsoft and third-party cloud services.

I joined a 'paid-for' community last week - somewhat on a whim - as many of us purchase things every day either online or in a retail outlet. We are bombarded everyday with offers of good, products and services, and far too often the offers we are inundated with make...

Raindrop.io — All-in-one bookmark manager is a bookmark manager that has been my bookmark manager for a couple of years now. I have a number of different profiles across different browsers (mostly, almost exclusively, Edge) and devices and I wanted a place to keep bookmarks and always seemed to have...

Plus Addressing, also known as sub addressing or tag addressing, is a feature in Exchange Online (Microsoft 365) that allows you to create custom email addresses based on your standard email address by adding a "+" symbol followed by a keyword to your email address before the "@" symbol. For...

When planning the deployment of Microsoft Sentinel, it is important to understand how much data is likely to be ingested and the cost of that ingestion. The good news is that there are quite a few services that you can ingest for free and having a good handle on which...