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AzureFunBytes Episode 56 – Secretless Applications with @ChristosMatskas

Jay Gordon September 21, 2021 Sep 21, 2021 09/21/21

Secretless application development strives to solve some important problems, like preventing your credentials from being leaked. If you are seeing connection strings, usernames or passwords in log files, you're adding to your risk profile.

AzureFunBytes Episode 42 – Hybrid Cloud on Azure with @ThomasMaurer

Jay Gordon June 8, 2021 Jun 8, 2021 06/8/21

This week my guest was Senior Cloud Advocate Thomas Maurer . We dove into the world of hybrid cloud ! Not every application is born in the cloud, but they can certainly interact with it. A hybrid cloud is a type of cloud computing that combines on-premises infrastructure—or a private cloud—with a public cloud.

New policies to restrict personal access token scope and lifespan

pazand June 3, 2021 Jun 3, 2021 06/3/21

Azure DevOps Administrators can now define a maximum lifespan for personal access tokens (PATs) and restrict the creation of global and full-scoped personal access tokens (PATs). These policies will affect all users and Azure DevOps organizations linked to the Azure AD tenant.

AzureFunBytes – Microsoft Identity with Christos Matskas!

Jay Gordon May 11, 2021 May 11, 2021 05/11/21

This week I welcomed [Christos Matskas](https://twitter.com/ChristosMatskas), Program Manager at Microsoft, to the show. We have discussed Identity before, but we'll get a great look into [authentication, authorization](https://cda.ms/24G), and [Azure AD](https://cda.ms/24F). Christos helps us understand how we can bridge the gap between our

Intro to Service Principals with Peter De Tender

Jay Gordon March 29, 2021 Mar 29, 2021 03/29/21

AzureFunBytes is a weekly opportunity to learn more about the fundamentals and foundations that make up Azure. It's a chance for me to understand more about what people across the Azure organization do and how they do it. Every week we get together at 11AM Pacific on Microsoft LearnTV and learn more about Azure. This time Microsoft Technical ...

Demystifying Service Principals – Managed Identities

Peter De Tender January 28, 2021 Jan 28, 2021 01/28/21

This article will describe the use case and core differences between Service Principal and Managed Identities, using Key Vault and other Azure services as an example

Azure DevOps Shorts: Azure Sentinel and AKS

Jay Gordon December 9, 2020 Dec 9, 2020 12/9/20

Microsoft Azure Sentinel is a scalable, cloud-native, security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestration automated response (SOAR) solution. Azure Sentinel delivers intelligent security analytics and threat intelligence across the enterprise, providing a single solution for alert detection, threat visibility, proactive hun

Supporting SHA-2 algorithm in SSH on Azure DevOps

Jimson Chalissery [MSFT] March 18, 2020 Mar 18, 2020 03/18/20

With the release of OpenSSH 8.2 last month, connections to SSH servers using SHA-1 was disabled by default in the OpenSSH client. We understand that this move helps improve the security of SSH connections, by encouraging all users to adopt the SHA-2 class of algorithms, generally considered safer. However, this resulted in OpenSSH users not ...

Update: Support for TLS 1.0/1.1 in Azure DevOps Services Extended

Justin Chung March 6, 2020 Mar 6, 2020 03/6/20

Unlike previously announced, we will not temporarily or permanently disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in Azure DevOps Services until further notice.

Azure DevOps Services to require TLS 1.2 (Updated)

Justin Chung February 27, 2020 Feb 27, 2020 02/27/20

UPDATE: Based on customers' feedback, we have decided to postpone this change. We will not disable TLS 1.0/1.1 support for Azure DevOps Services until further notice.

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