Azure

The very best of Microsoft Build - Auckland

Microsoft Build has just finished and there were some amazing announcements. Our panel has selected some of their favourites and can't wait to share them with you. We'll cover: Data and AI - Galina Polyakova - Sr Cloud Solution Architect Entra (Identity) - Rory Braybrook - Security MVP Azure - Ahmed Muhi - Cloud Solution Architect M365 - Darrell as a Service Webster - M365 MVP Development - Jiadong Chen - Developer Technologies MVP

๐‰๐ข๐š๐๐จ๐ง๐  ๐‚๐ก๐ž๐ง'๐ฌ ๐€๐ณ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐’๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž!

I am privileged to host a Cloud Skills Challenge on Azure security with Microsoft! ๐Ÿ† ๐‰๐ข๐š๐๐จ๐ง๐  ๐‚๐ก๐ž๐ง’๐ฌ ๐€๐ณ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ž ๐’๐ž๐œ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐ž! ๐๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ž ๐š ๐œ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐Œ๐•๐! This challenge will help you learn the fundamentals of Azure security and better understand the cloud. Working with Microsoft has been an incredible experience, as they have shared their expertise to help me create a challenging and rewarding learning experience. This Azure security challengeโ€™s topics are summarized in the following sections:

Iโ€™m thrilled to share that I have been featured by Microsoft as a Skilling Champion!

Hey everyone! Iโ€™m thrilled to share that I have been featured by Microsoft as a Skilling Champion! It is an honor to be one of the top performing Microsoft MVPs! ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿฅณ Skilling is important because it helps equip individuals with the knowledge and technical skills necessary for a successful career. As a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), I want to contribute to skilling the broader community by providing access to the latest technology, tools, and resources, because Iโ€™m passionate about technology and helping people learn and use technology.

Making Your Azure Storage Account More Secure: 3

In the previous article, we introduced the second best practice, Ensure that โ€˜Enable key rotation remindersโ€™ is enabled for each Storage Account and Regenerate Access Keys Periodically. In this post, I’d like to introduce the third best practice. Let’s move on! #3 Ensure Storage for Critical Data are Encrypted with Customer Managed Keys By default, data in the storage account is encrypted using 256-bit AES encryption with Microsoft Managed Keys at rest.

Making Your Azure Storage Account More Secure: 2

In the previous article, we introduced the first best practice, Ensure that โ€˜Enable Infrastructure Encryptionโ€™ for Each Storage Account in Azure Storage is Set to โ€˜enabledโ€™. In this post, I’d like to introduce the second best practice. Let’s move on! #2 Ensure that โ€˜Enable key rotation remindersโ€™ is enabled for each Storage Account and Regenerate Access Keys Periodically A periodic rotation of access keys is a good idea to ensure that potentially compromised keys cannot result in a long-term exploitable credential.

Making Your Azure Storage Account More Secure: 1

Data protection is important because it helps to protect sensitive data from unauthorized access, modification, or destruction. For organizations that use cloud services for storing and processing data, it helps to ensure that data is stored securely and is available when needed. Azure Storage Account is a service that provides secure cloud storage for data in Microsoft Azure cloud. In this series of posts, Iโ€™d like to share a few suggestions to make your Azure Storage Account more secure!

.NET Conf 2022 - Wellington

Building Real-Time 3D Cloud Applications with Azure, .NET, and Unity

My new book โ€œGame Development with Unity for .NET Developersโ€ is ready for pre-order on Amazon!

This book has more than 580 pages and focuses on how to use Unity and the Microsoft Game Stack, including Microsoft Azure Cloud and Microsoft Azure PlayFab services, to create a fascinating 3D virtual game world.

Game Development with Unity for .NET Developers

Understand what makes Unity the world's most widely used real-time 3D development platform and explore its powerful features for creating 3D and 2D games, as well as the Unity game engine and the Microsoft Game Dev, including the Microsoft Azure โ€ฆ

How to Securely Connect to Your Azure Sql Database?

This post was first published at Medium The topic of #cybersecurity has been hot recently, especially when it comes to databases where data is stored. This article summarizes some best practices and options related to network security setup for Azure SQL. Now, letโ€™s start! First, letโ€™s look at a common use case for Azure SQL. Suppose we have a VM on Azure, in order to be able to connect to Azure SQL Database from this VM, the Azure cloud provides 4 options for us.