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Articles, As Secure As Practical, ASAP, Azure Active Directory, CISA, CISA Scuba, Defender for O365, Do something, SCUBA, Security Assessment, Security posture
Secure Cloud Business Applications – assess your security
Secure Cloud Business Applications, assess your security – Best of all it is at no cost and provides guidance on best practise security guidelines for business. When reducing the likelihood of a successful cyber attack we need to break down the approach into various elements, a security assessment such as the CISA SCUBA tool is…
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22/11/2022
Articles, ACSC, ACSC essential 8, Australian cyber security centre, Cyber risk, Cyber Security Framework, Zero Trust Network Architecture
Protecting Australian Business from Cyber Crime
Protecting Australian Business from Cyber Crime, easy title to write and a topic beyond complex to implement for many small to mid sized businesses in 2022, Australia. The secret is that it is not complex to get started on a cyber security journey, it is easy to do the basics and reduce the risk of…
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04/11/2022
Articles, ACSC, ACSC essential 8, ASD, ASD 8, ASD essential 8, Australian cyber security centre, Breach
As Secure As Practical (ASAP)
As Secure As Practical (ASAP) – As Soon As Possible. In the past few months of 2022 in Australia alone there have been a number of significant cyber breaches across many of our major brand names and this terrible trend is poised to continue to get worse until such time as our organisations uplift their…
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03/11/2022
Articles, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint Server, Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management, Threat and vulnerability management
Threat and Vulnerability management
Threat and Vulnerability management, an absolutely essential part of security for your organisation. Though my dislike for statistics is known, SIXTY percent of breaches are claimed to be from unpatched software and though statistics may be guided by the authorising (paying) agency/vendor, it does not change the underlying seriousness that we all face with keeping…
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24/10/2022
Australian cyber security centre, Articles, ASD, ASD 8, ASD essential 8, JGES, Just good enough security
Michael Brooke presents the ASD essential 8 on Safari
Michael Brooke presents the ASD essential 8 on Safari; recently I had the opportunity to work with TechforGood, an organisation making a difference with Social organisations across Australia. I have two passions other than fishing and family (so four passions in total), these are: Cyber security, the field of cyber security is an industry where…
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24/08/2022
Microsoft certification, Exam prep
Michael Brookes’ Microsoft SC-100 – The Just Good Enough Guarantee
Michael Brookes’ Microsoft SC-100 – The Just Good Enough Guarantee, is my personal journey to secure the Microsoft SC-100 exam “Cyber Security Architect Expert” credential, after a somewhat foolhardy statement on LinkedIn seeking colleagues to join me and pass their certification as well by the end of July 2022. There is of course no “Just…
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07/08/2022
ACSC, ACSC essential 8, Azure Application Proxy, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Single Sign On, SSO, Zero Trust Network Architecture
“Okta parses passwords in clear text”, What does that mean to me?
“Okta parses passwords in clear text”, What does that mean to me? This is really NOT an Okta problem but an industry problem – my industry, cloud SSO authentication should always and only be against known “good” Authenticators such as Microsoft, Google, Apple and others for all cloud based SSO. Passwords should never be out…
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30/07/2022
Articles, ACSC, ACSC essential 8, ASD, ASD 8, ASD essential 8
Carrots, sticks and Donkeys do improve cyber security, part 1
Carrots, sticks and donkeys do improve cyber security, part 1. More specifically how to Use the ACSC recommendations to achieve cyber resilience augmented with what organisations are already doing well today. As most organisations in Australia already understand, the Australian Signals directorate Essential Eight is a list of 8, easy (definitely easy) steps to implement…
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25/06/2022
Articles, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, ML
Machine learning – hype or hope with 1 part snake oil
Machine learning – hype or hope with 1 part snake oil, adding the snake oil makes all things including Machine Learning more capable than it may seem when peeking beneath the covers, or more slippery, but we will get into the slipperiness soon. The following article is something that I have wanted to write for…
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13/06/2022
Articles, Microsoft Sentinel, SIEM
#1, Down and Dusty with Microsoft sentinel
#1, down and Dusty with Microsoft Sentinel. Sentinel is one of Microsofts Crown Jewels hidden so well in plain sight that many Managed Service Providers and cyber security teams do not even know it can help them significantly with investigating Indicators of Compromise or investigating a cyber attack to find the source and the target.…
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11/06/2022