What is Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM)?
Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps (previously Microsoft Cloud App Security) is a CASB that supports various deployment modes and provides...
Transparency, Trust and the Power of Whims
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
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...
InBox Zero with Plus Addressing in Microsoft 365
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...
Free Data Ingestion into Microsoft Sentinel Explained
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...
Simplified pricing for Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft's SIEM/SOAR solution, uses an Azure Log Analytics Workspace as it's backend and as such previously the pricing of sentinel was split between the Log Analytics Workspace and the Sentinel Service. This month (July 2023) Microsoft has been rolling out a simplified pricing for new Sentinel Workspaces. As...
Introducing Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access
As well as some name changes, at the Microsoft Entra event on Tuesday (11 July 2023), Microsoft announced Microsoft Entra Internet Access and Microsoft Entra Private Access, which combined are termed as Global Secure Access . Within Microsoft Entra, with these new Global Secure Access services, you can now create...
Azure AD becomes Microsoft Entra ID
Another day and another round of Microsoft product name changes - this time Azure AD and related products are being aligned with the Microsoft Entra product family name. The Microsoft Entra product family was announced in May 2022 as packaging together of all the Microsoft identity and access products, including...
Split Screen Browsing in Edge
So often I arrange two browser windows side-by-side when working with multiple websites (as always). But no more! I just found that in Microsoft Edge one can split the browser window. To achieve this: Type edge://flags/#edge-split-screen in the address bar Enable Microsoft Edge Split Screen Restart Edge Once you've done...