Governance - Cloud Business & Technology

Defender for Servers without Azure Arc

12. June 2023 by Yannic Graber

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If you want to protect your servers from cyber threats, you may be relying on Defender for Servers from Microsoft, a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Microsoft has now announced the direct onboarding of Defender for Servers without Azure Arc and is now officially available. Direct onboarding is a new feature that allows you to add the servers you want to protect to Defender for Servers without needing Azure Arc for Servers. In this blog post, I'll explain what this means, the benefits of this option, and who can benefit from it. I will also compare the new option with Azure Arc for Servers.

Azure ArcBox in the Cloud Adoption Framework

16. June 2022 by Yannic Graber

The developer conference "Microsoft Build 2022" has brought some news, also in the area of the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) in combination with Azure Arc. I would like to discuss some of these innovations, the ArcBox tool and corresponding documentation on Microsoft Docs in this article.

Automatically audit and deploy Azure Resource Locks with Azure Policies

13. February 202113. February 2021 by Yannic Graber

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You can create resources very easily on the Azure platform. This is great, but it also provides a few risks. For example, you can delete resources or entire environments just as easily. What is very helpful for tests and demos can be very dangerous for integration and production environments. So you don't have to manage this manually, I wrote an Azure Policy code. This defines the automatic auditing and provisioning of Azure Resource Locks with Azure Policies.