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Azure Sentinel – A cloud native SIEM & SOAR solution

Before we start with Azure Sentinel, let’s understand SIEM and SOAR first. What is SIEM? A security information and event management (SIEM) are a solution that collect security data from your entire organizational infrastructure such as host systems, applications, networks, security devices etc. SIEM solution helps to: ·         Analyze data for potential threats ·         Detect and stop attacks ·         Leverage machine learning techniques to use data gathered from previous events to improve threat prediction. What is SOAR? A security orchestration and automated response (SOAR) is a solution that helps SOC or security team to respond to alerts based on priority. It helps orchestrate manual tasks on day-to-day basis. SOAR solution helps to: ·         Automate response workflows and ·       ...

Disaster Recovery of a VM in Azure

Background Back in June 2018, Microsoft announced the general availability of Disaster Recovery (DR) for Azure virtual machines using Azure Site Recovery. Azure is the first public cloud provider to offer native DR solution for application running on IaaS. Along with Availability Zone and availability sets, ‘ Azure Site Recovery’ provides resiliency for applications running on Azure VMs. This blog will cover the extensive points on disaster recovery setup process for virtual machine hosted in Azure. I’ve divided this article into several sub-sections for disaster recovery: Prerequisites Create Recovery Services Vault Enable Replication Test Failover Failover, Commit & Re-Protect Prerequisites: A zure subscription with permission to create ‘ Recovery Services Vault’ and VMs in target region along with virtual network, storage account etc. Supported VM operating systems like Windows or Linux. Supported Azure regions for disaster recovery (DR) Outbound network ...

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