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SysAdmin Horror Stories

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment

We all know that a SysAdmin’s job is no easy task, and apart from constantly having systems to update, bugs to fix and users to please, SysAdmins encounter all sorts of situations throughout their careers. From tech situations to funny anecdotes, terrible mishaps or incidents with colleagues, this eBook includes real stories of what SysAdmins go through on a daily basis.

It’s very easy to download as no registration is required. Click on Download and it’s yours. It includes more than 20 short stories but this one is my personal favourite 😊.

Categories: Cloud

Azure Sentinel with built-in behavioural analytics powered by UEBA platform

October 23, 2020 Leave a comment

This latest innovation helps identify anomalies and extract behavioural insights for threat hunting and detection. Insights are aggregated across multiple data sources to provide a unified host or user profile.

Image source: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/stay-ahead-of-threats-with-new-innovations-from-azure-sentinel/ba-p/1693166

Other innovations include:

  • Integration with Azure Machine Learning Jupyter notebooks which offers a framework and cloud-scale data pipeline for ML using Azure Databricks.
  • Ability to search, add and track threat indicators, and create watchlists for threat hunting and detection (e.g., restricted IPs, trusted systems, critical assets, risky users, vulnerable hosts).
  • New data connectors, including for Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, and other clouds and data collection pipelines.

Categories: Cloud