Simon Angling

Attempting to reproduce the Joy Division Unknown Pleasures pulsar plot in Excel – further than you might expect, but not quite far enough.

Learning by doing has always been my preferred method of personal development. So in 1995 when I wanted to learn about web development and HMTL I needed to find a subject to publish a website. Being a long-time fan of Jonathan Richman and an avid record collector, I created a...

Les Fleurs by Minnie Riperton, from her 1970 debut album Come to My Garden. Will somebody wear me to the fair?(To the morning, sings the lovely flower)Will a lady pin me in her hair?(Mmh, mmh-mmh, mmh)Will a child find me by a stream?(Gaily laughing in a sundream shower)Ooh, kiss my...

Not as straightforward as I made it sound It's been a while. Yesterday morning I decided to do a little test. I had confidently stated in a meeting on Friday, that we could/should turn on change tracking. A lot of my writing here is really me trying to learn or...

The history of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint for Servers is a confusing one, and one that I have been trying to keep track of and define the exact situation for a while. And it does keep changing so let’s look at the changes that have happened with the licencing and...

I picked up a copy of The Chicago Manual of Style at a local flea market last weekend. The guide covers all aspects of editorial practice, including grammar and usage, formatting, and copy editing. I have a few books like this on my bookshelf, which hail from my years working...

I'm excited to be reading through the new updated Microsoft Cybersecurity Reference Architectures (MCRA). The MCRA is part of the Microsoft Security Adoption Framework (SAF) that helps accelerate security modernization and effectiveness. The SAF provides clear actionable guidance to help guide your security modernization journey to protect business assets across...

There are few Secure Scores across the Microsoft eco-system that provides a score as a percentage, along with recommendations on how to increase the organisations cloud security posture and thus the score. In a sense this is a type of gamification to raise security posture but often feel this is...

Choosing the correct Azure VM to deploy is a vital step that one must undertake in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) projects. Whether you are building from a new (green fields) environment or migrating current workloads, there is a vast array of Azure VMs to choose from, each with different...

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...